driver is hauled out.

DRIVING A CHARGE. Ramming home the loading of a piece of ordnance.

DRIVING PILES. The motion of a ship bobbing in a head sea, compared to
the vertical fall of monkeys on pile heads.

DROG. A Gaelic term, still in use, to express the agitation of the sea.

DROGHER. A small craft which goes round the bays of the West India Islands,
to take off sugars, rum, &c., to the merchantmen.--_Lumber-drogher_ is a
vessel built solely for burden, and for transporting cotton and other
articles coastwise.

DROGHING. The carrying trade of the West India coasts.

DROITS OF ADMIRALTY. Rights, or rather perquisites, which flowed
originally from the king by grant or usage, and now reserved to the
crown by commission. They are of two kinds--viz. the civil, or those
arising from wrecks of the sea, flotsam, jetsam, and lagan, royal
fishes, derelicts, and deodands, ejectamenta maris, and the goods of
pirates, traitors, felons, suicides, and fugitives within the admiralty
jurisdiction; and the prize droits, or those accruing in the course of
war, comprehending all ships and goods taken without commission, all
vessels improperly captured before hostilities have been formally
declared, or found or by accident brought within the admiralty, salvage
for all ships rescued, and all ships seized, in any of the ports,
creeks, or roads of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
before any declaration of war or reprisals by the sovereign.

DROM-FISH. A large fish taken and cured in quantities in the Portuguese
harbours of South America, as well for ship's stores as for the times of
fast.

DROMON. A Saracen term denoting the large king's ships from the ninth to
the fifteenth century.

DROP, OR DROOP. When a line diverges from a parallel or a curve. It is
also a name generally used to the courses, but sometimes given to the
depth of the square sails in general; as, "Her main top-sail drops
seventeen yards." The depth of a sail from head to foot amidships.--_To
drop anchor_ is simply to anchor:--underfoot, in calms, a kedge or
stream is dropped to prevent drift.

DROP ASTERN, TO. To slacken a ship's way, so as to suffer another one to
pass beyond her. Also, distancing a competitor.

DROP DOWN A RIVER. Synonymous with _falling_ (which see).

DROP-DRY. Completely water-tight.

DROPPING. An old mode of salute by lowering flags or uppermost sails.

DROPS. In ship-building, are small foliages of carved work in the st