hin their berth, safe from cats, rats, ants, and cockroaches.

GARNET. A sort of purchase fixed to the main-stay of a merchant-ship,
and used for hoisting the cargo in and out at the time of loading or
delivering her. A whip.--_Clue-garnet._ (_See_ CLUE and CLUE-GARNETS.)

GARNEY. A term in the fisheries for the fins, sounds, and tongues of the
cod-fish.

GARNISH. Profuse decoration of a ship's head, stern, and quarters. Also
money which pressed men in tenders and receiving ships exacted from each
other, according to priority.

GARR. An oozy vegetable substance which grows on ships' bottoms.

GARRET, OR GARITA. A watch-tower in a fortification; an old term.

GARRISON. A military force guarding a town or fortress; a term for the
place itself; also for the state of guard there maintained.

GARRISON GUNS. These are more powerful than those intended for the
field; and formerly nearly coincided with naval guns; but now, the
introduction of armour-plating afloat leads to furnishing
coast-batteries with the heaviest guns of all.

GARRISON ORDERS. Those given out by the commandant of a garrison.

GARROOKA. A fishing-craft of the Gulf of Persia.

GARTERS. A slang term for the ship's irons or bilboes.

GARTHMAN. One who plies at a _fish-garth_, but is prohibited by statute
from destroying the fry of fish.

GARVIE. A name on our northern shores for the sprat.

GASKET. A cord, or piece of plaited stuff, to secure furled sails to the
yard, by wrapping it three or four times round both, the turns being at
a competent distance from each other.--_Bunt-gasket_ ties up the bunt of
the sail, and should consequently be the strongest; it is sometimes made
in a peculiar net form. In some ships they have given place to
beckets.--_Double gaskets._ Passing additional frapping-lines round the
yards in very stormy weather.--_Quarter-gasket._ Used only for large
sails, and is fastened about half-way out upon the yard, which part is
called the quarter.--_Yard-arm gasket._ Used for smaller sails; the end
is made fast to the yard-arm, and serves to bind the sail as far as the
quarter-gasket on large yards, but extends quite into the bunt of small
sails.

GAS-PIPE. A term jocularly applied to the newly-introduced
breech-loading rifle.

GAT. A swashway, or channel amongst shoals.

GATE. The old name for landing-places, as Dowgate and Billingsgate; also
in cliffs, as Kingsgate, Margate, and Ramsgate; those in Greece and in
Italy are c