tores.

STORM, TO. To take by vigorous assault, in spite of the resistance of
the defenders.

STORM-BREEDERS. Heavy cumulo-stratus clouds.

STORM-DRUM. A canvas cylinder 3 feet in length, expanded at each end by
a strong wooden hoop 3 feet in diameter. Fitzroy's is painted black, and
presents, when suspended, the appearance of a black square of 3 feet,
from all points of view.

STORM-FINCH. The petrel, or Mother Cary's chicken.

STORM-JIB. In cutters, the fifth or sixth size: the inner jib of
square-rigged ships.

STORM-KITE. A contrivance for sending a hawser from a stranded vessel to
the shore.

STORMS [from the Anglo-Saxon _steorm_]. Tempests, or _gales of wind_ in
nautic language, are of various kinds, and will be found under their
respective designations. But that is a storm which reduces a ship to her
storm staysails, or to her bare poles.

STORM-SAIL. A sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions,
for use in a gale.

STORM-SIGNAL. The hoisting of a danger-flag. Also, Fitzroy's drum and
cone, which show the direction of the expected gale.

STORM-TRYSAIL. A fore-and-aft sail, hoisted by a gaff, but having no
boom at its foot, and only used in foul weather.

STORM-WARNING. _See_ FORECAST.

STORM-WAVE. A wave which tumbles home without being accompanied by wind.
Sometimes the result of a gale elsewhere.

STORMY PETREL. A small dark coloured sea-bird, _Procellaria pelagica_.

STOVE. Broken in; thus, when violent damage is done to the upper part of
a ship's hull, she is said to be _stove_; when on any portion of her
bottom, she is _bilged_.--_A stove_, is a kind of kiln for warping
timber in.--_Hanging stoves_ are also used on board ship for airing the
'tween decks.

STOWAGE. An important art more practised than understood, for the stower
seldom consults the specialities of the vessel's construction; it is the
general disposition of the ballast, cargo, &c., contained in a ship's
hold, with regard to their shape, size, or solidity, agreeably to the
form of the vessel, and its probable centre of gravity. A badly stowed
vessel cannot be properly handled, and is indeed dangerous to the lives
of all on board. Owners and masters are legally liable to the losses by
bad stowage or deficient dunnage. (_See_ WET.)

STOWAGE GOODS. Those which usually pay freight according to bulk.

STOWED IN BULK. _See_ BULK.

STOWING HAMMOCKS. Placing them in a neat and symmetrical order in the
hammock-netting.