nted with one fluke down, and made to hook the
ground.--_Stock of a gun, musket, or pistol_, is the wooden part to
which the barrel is fitted, for the convenience of handling and firing
it. _Stock_ is also applied to stores laid in for a voyage, as
sea-stock, live-stock, &c.--_To stock to_, in stowing an anchor, is, by
means of a tackle upon the upper end of the stock, to bowse it into a
perpendicular direction, which tackle is hence denominated the
stock-tackle.

STOCKS. A frame of blocks and shores whereon to build shipping. It has a
gradual declivity towards the water.

STOER-MACKEREL. A name for the young tunny-fish.

STOITING. An east-country term for the jumping of fishes above the
surface of the water.

STOKE, TO. To frequent the galley in a man-of-war, or to trim fires.

STOKE-HOLE. A scuttle in the deck of a steamer to admit fuel for the
engine. Also, the space for the men to stand in, to feed and trim the
fires.

STOKER, OR FIREMAN. The man who attends to feed and trim the fires for
the boilers in a steam-vessel.

STOMACH-PIECE. _See_ APRON.

STONACRE. A sloop-rigged boat employed to carry stone on the Severn.

STONE. The old term for a gun-flint.

STONE-BOW. A cross-bow for shooting stones.

STOOL. A minor channel abaft the main channels, for the dead-eyes of the
backstays. (_See_ BACKSTAY-STOOLS.)

STOOLS. Chocks introduced under the lowest transoms of a ship's
stern-frame, to which the lower ends of the fashion-pieces are fastened;
they form the securities of the quarter-galleries. Also, the thick
pieces of plank, fayed together edgeways, and bolted to the sides of the
ship for backstays. Also, the ornamental block for the poop-lantern to
stand upon.

STOP. A small projection on the outside of the cheeks of a lower mast,
at the upper parts of the hounds. Also, the word given by him who holds
the glass in heaving the log, to check the line and determine how fast
she is going.--_To stop._ To tie up with small stuff; as a sail is
_stopped_ when sending it aloft to prevent the wind from blowing it
away; a flag is _stopped_ to make a wheft, &c.

STOP HER! An order to check the cable in being payed out. Also, a
self-explanatory phrase to direct the engineer of a steamer to stop the
action of the engines.

STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU. A valuable privilege under which an unpaid
consigner or broker may stop or countermand his goods upon their passage
to the consignee on the insolvency of the vendee.