yed
for the path described by a shot or shell.

TRAMMEL. A large drag-net for the cod fishery.

TRAMONTANA. The north wind in general in the Mediterranean, but also
denoting a peculiar cold and blighting wind, very hurtful in the
Archipelago.

TRAN. A Norwegian word for fish-oil, adopted in our northern fisheries.

TRANKEH, OR TRANKIES. A large boat of the Gulf of Persia.

TRANSFER. There can be no legal transfer of property captured at sea,
without a legal condemnation in the admiralty court, and therefore the
sale or occupancy of vessels and goods by pirates does not alter or
extinguish the loser's right of property. Transfer is the legal state of
a registered ship, or shares in her, to persons qualified to be owners
of British ships. Also, the turning over men or companies from one ship
to another.

TRANSHIPMENT OF TREASURE. Ships on a distant station receiving treasure
for conveyance to some other man-of-war about to proceed to England,
from another port on the same station. Both captains partake of the
freight, relatively as to distance and deposit.

TRANSIRE. A custom-house document specifying the goods shipped by a
coasting vessel, docketted with a sufferance for their discharge on
arriving at the place of destination.

TRANSIT. The precise culmination of a heavenly body over the meridian of
a place.

TRANSIT OF MERCURY OR VENUS. These planets being situated between the
sun and the earth, occasionally appear to us to pass over his disc, from
east to west.

TRANSIT INSTRUMENT. A telescope fitted with vertical wires, and
revolving on an axis in the plane of the meridian, with which the time
may be obtained by observing the passage of the stars and planets
compared with their computed time.

TRANSITU. Goods of an enemy's colony surrendering between the time of
sailing and capture do not change their hostile character _in transitu_;
though the owners may have become British subjects by capitulation, upon
the principle that the national character cannot be altered _in
transitu_. (_See_ STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU.)

TRANSMISSION. The property in a merchantman, or a share therein,
transmitted in consequence of the authenticated death, bankruptcy, or
insolvency of any registered owner.

TRANSOM. The vane of a cross-staff, made to slide along it by means of a
square socket; it may be set to any of the graduations.

TRANSOM OF A GUN-CARRIAGE. A cross piece of timber uniting the cheeks;
generally between the tr