t,
pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast.

TURN AHEAD! A self-explanatory order to the engineer, in regulating the
movement of a steamer.

TURN A TURTLE, TO. To take the animal by seizing a flipper, and
throwing him on his back, which renders him quite helpless. Also applied
to a vessel capsizing; or throwing a person suddenly out of his hammock.

TURN IN, TO. To go to bed.--_To turn out._ To get up.

TURN IN A DEAD-EYE OR HEART, TO. To seize the end of a shroud or stay,
&c., securely round it.

TURNING IN RIGGING. The end of a vessel's shrouds carried round the
dead-eyes, laid back and secured by seizings.

TURNING-ROOM. Space in a narrow channel for a ship to work in.

TURN IN THE HAWSE. Two crosses in a cable.

TURN OF THE TIDE. The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary.

TURN OUT THE GUARD! The order for the marines of the guard to fall in,
on the quarter-deck, in order to receive a superior officer on board.

TURN OVER MEN, TO. To discharge them out of one ship into another.

TURN THE GLASS. The order in throwing the log when the stray line is
payed out.

TURN THE HANDS UP, TO. To summon the entire crew on deck.

TURN TO WINDWARD, TO. To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is
when a ship endeavours to make progress against the wind by a compound
course inclined to the place of her destination; otherwise called plying
or beating to windward.

TURNPIKE-SAILORS. Rascals who go about dressed as sailors pretending
that they have been shipwrecked, and soliciting charity.

TURPIS CAUSA. An unsustainable suit for wages, on the part of a British
pilot, for navigating a foreign ship to an enemy's port.

TURRET-SHIP. A vessel, more or less armoured, fitted with one or more
heavily plated revolving turrets, each carrying one or more guns of the
heaviest class, which look out above the deck; the whole worked by
steam-power. It represents the present improvement on the inventions of
the cupola-ship, shield-ship, and monitor.

TURTLE. The well-known marine reptile described by early navigators as
"reasonable toothsom meate." The horny covering of the shell of some
species furnishes the substance commonly known as _tortoise-shell_.

TURTLE-CRAWL. A shallow lagoon, wherein turtles are kept.

TURTLE-PEG. A socketed pointed iron on a staff; it is slightly barbed,
and is a special tool for sticking turtle.

TUSK. The _Brosmius vulgaris_, a savoury fish taken in the northern
seas, about the s