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Antique Nautical Commands and Orders
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  • 1. Command denoting direction against the breeze, once common
  • 2. Historic order to haul the sail’s lower corner fast
  • 7. Obsolete directive to roll up or secure sails neatly
  • 8. Instruction for careful arrangement or securing cargo below
  • 10. Order to stop or cease, archaic on decks
  • 13. Command referencing the aft mast that’s no longer standard
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  • 3. Order to use the large winch for raising anchor or cable
  • 4. Command relating to manipulating a thick mooring rope
  • 5. Cable once ordered taut to brace the bowsprit
  • 6. Order to set all sails on a ship of old design
  • 9. Traditional order to reduce sail area in stiff breeze
  • 11. Old command to exert force in pulling lines
  • 12. Directive involving swinging the spar for sail control
  • 14. Maneuver command involving turning the bow through wind
  • 15. Halt that once secured ropes on sailing ships
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