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Gobline :: Gobline (n.) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

Warlock :: Warlock (n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.

Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

Sprite :: Sprite (n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright..

Spritsail :: Spritely (a.) See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc..

Phantom :: Phantom (n.) That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.

Cap :: Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope..

Housing :: Housing (n.) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron..

Sprocket Wheel :: Spritsail (n.) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard..

Water Sprite :: Water sprite () A sprite, or spirit, imagined as inhabiting the water..

Elf :: Elf (n.) An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks..

Steeve :: Steeve (n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving..

Spriteful :: Sprite (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle..

Bee :: Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks..

Hob :: Hob (n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf.

Spriteliness :: Spritefully (a.) Alt. of Spritel.

Sprit :: Sprit (n.) A shoot; a sprout.

Stem :: Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow..

Sprite :: Sprite (n.) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.

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