erver calls "stop," on effecting his astronomical observation for
altitude of a heavenly body, or for contact with the sun and moon, or
moon and star.

TIME-KEEPER, TIME-PIECE, OR CHRONOMETER. An instrument adapted for
measuring mean time. The result of many years of study and experiment by
our best horologists. (_See_ LONGITUDE.)

TIMENOGUY. Formerly a rope carried taut between different parts of a
vessel, to prevent the sheet or tack of a course from getting foul in
working ship; specially from the fore-rigging to the anchor-stock, to
prevent the fouling of the fore-sheet.

TIMONEER [derived from the French]. The helmsman. Also, one on the
look-out, who directs the helmsman.

TIMONOGY. This term properly belongs to steering, and is derived from
_timon_, the tiller, and the twiddling-lines, which worked in olden
times on a gauge in front of the poop, in ships of the line, by which
the position of the helm was easily read even from the forecastle.

TINDAL. A Lascar boatswain's-mate.

TINKER. A small mortar formerly used on the end of a staff, now
superseded by the Coehorn. Also, a small mackerel.

TINKERMEN. Fishermen who destroyed the fry of fish on the Thames by
nets, and other unlawful contrivances, till suppressed by the mayor and
corporation of London.

TIN-POTTER. A galley skulker, shamming Abraham.

TIPPET. A snood for a fishing-line.

TIPPING ALL NINES, OR TIPPED THE NINES. Foundering from press of sail.

TIPPING THE GRAMPUS. Ducking a skulker for being asleep on his watch.
(_See_ BLOWING THE GRAMPUS.)

TIRE. Synonymous with _tier_.

TITIVATE, TO; OR TITIVATE OFF TO THE NINES. To freshen the paint-work;
to put into the highest kelter.

TOAD-FISH. The _Lophius piscatorius_, or fishing-frog.

TOBACCO. Has been supplied for the use of the ships' companies in the
royal navy from the 1st January, 1799.

TOBACCO-CHARTS. The worthless charts formerly sold by ship-chandlers.

TOD-BOAT. A broad flat Dutch fishing-boat.

TODDY. The sura or juice extracted from various kinds of palm, and often
called palm-wine. A mixture of spirits, water, and sugar is also called
toddy. (_See_ ARRACK.)

TOE A LINE! The order to stand in a row.

TOGGLE. A strong pin of wood, sometimes used instead of a hook in fixing
a tackle, or it is put through the bight or eye of a rope, bolt, or
block-strop, to keep it in its place. In ships of war it is usual to fix
toggles upon the running parts of the topsail-sheets, the je