a
port.

HARBOUR-DUES. _See_ PORT-CHARGES.

HARBOUR-DUTY MEN. Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform
the dockyard or port duties, too often superannuated, or otherwise
unfit.

HARBOUR-GASKETS. Broad, but short and well-blacked gaskets, placed at
equal distances on the yard, for showing off a well-furled sail in port:
there is generally one upon every other seam.

HARBOUR-GUARDS. Men detached from the ordinary, as a working party.

HARBOUR-LOG. That part of the log-book which consists solely of remarks,
and relates only to transactions while the ship is in port.

HARBOUR-MASTER. An officer appointed to inspect the moorings, and to see
that the ships are properly berthed, and the regulations of the harbour
strictly observed by the different ships frequenting it.

HARBOUR-REACH. The reach or stretch of a winding river which leads
direct to the harbour.

HARBOUR-WATCH. A division or subdivision of the watch kept on
night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to meet any
emergency.

HARD. A road-path made through mud for landing at. (_See_ ARD.)

HARD-A-LEE. The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard
over to windward. Strictly speaking, it only relates to a tiller which
extends _forward_ from the rudder-head; now many extend _aft_, in which
case the _order_ remains the same, but the tiller and rudder are both
brought over to windward. Also, the order to put the tiller in this
position.

HARD AND FAST. Said of a ship on shore.

HARD-A-PORT! The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder
over to the starboard-side of the stern-post, whichever way the tiller
leads. (_See_ HARD-A-LEE.)

HARD-A-STARBOARD. The order so to place the tiller as to bring the
rudder over to the port-side of the stern-post, whichever way the tiller
leads. (_See_ HARD-A-LEE.)

HARD-A-WEATHER! The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder
on the lee-side of the stern-post, whichever way the tiller leads, in
order to bear away; it is the position of the helm as opposed to
_hard-a-lee_ (which see). Also, a hardy seaman.

HARD BARGAIN. A useless fellow; a skulker.

HARD FISH. A term indiscriminately applied to cod, ling, haddock, torsk,
&c., salted and dried.

HARD GALE. When the violence of the wind reduces a ship to be under her
storm staysails, No. 10 force.

HARD-HEAD. The _Clupea menhaden_, or _Alosa tyrannus_, an oily fish
taken in immense quantities on the American coasts