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face piece
Decorative leather flap fitted with large brasses. It hangs centrally down
the horse's forehead, between the eyes.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine equipment
BT equine powered propulsion system component
false cratch
A roughly triangular timber framework fitted across the hold of a canal
narrow boat to support the running planks, usually sited behind the deck board.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT cratch
NT cratch board (horizontal)
NT deck board
NT running planks
USE martingale
fastener
Grouping term for fasteners associated with inland waterways. Do not use
for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL components
BT <component by general context>
NT back flap
NT bolt
NT nail
NT pin
NT rivet
NT rove
NT rudder pintle
feed bag
Heavy duty reinforced small sack of woven jute with suspension straps - as
used generally for carthorses. Common on London area canals.
UF nose bag
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
feed basket
Woven willow work basket. Round in shape with a flat bottom. Commonly used
on the River Wey navigation, Lower Grand Union Canal and Leicester Line of the
Old Union Canal.
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
feed bowl
Heavy, large galvanised oval container for horse feed. Fitted with straps,
usually leather, to allow the horse to feed on the move. Favoured on the Regents
Canal for Shire horses.
UF nose bowl
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
USE feed tin
feed tin
Light weight tinsmithed round container for horse feed, fitted with
straps, usually leather, to allow the horse to feed on the move. Common
throughout the narrow canal system.
UF feed can
UF nose tin
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
Fen lighter
Barges working in gangs up to 5 together, size varies from fen boats to
larger Great Ouse varieties, barges up to 45ft in length.
CL transport
BT barges designed to work in multiple units
BT lighter
RT house lighter
Fen punt
Fenland open craft up to 18ft in length.
CL transport
BT punt
fender
Protective and/or decorative pad or buffer fastened to a boat to prevent
either damage to the boat or moorings. Often made of rope.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
NT bow fender
NT stem fender
NT stern fender
NT tip cat fender
RT ropework
ferry
Any craft used to move goods and passengers over a set route. Principally
crossing from one side of a canal or river to the other.
CL transport
BT passenger vessel
fibreglass boat
A boat whose main construction material is fibreglass.
CL transport
BT <craft by material>
fid
A tapered, usually wooden, pin used in opening the strands of a rope when
splicing rope ends or carrying out decorative ropework.
CL tools and equipment
BT rope working equipment
NT hand fid
fire fighting vessel
A craft designed to fight fire as its sole job.
UF fire float
CL transport
BT service craft
USE fire fighting vessel
USE horse drawn narrow boat
fishing dinghy
Wooden rowing boat used to carry anglers.
CL transport
BT recreational craft
fixed line powered boat
A boat whose motive power source is provided by a fixed line.
CL transport
BT <craft by motive power>
flattener
A shaping tool with a long wire handle for use with hot metal. It has a
flat face fro 'flattening' the metal when it is struck.
UF flatter
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
USE flattener
float type gauging stick
A gauging stick consisting of a copper tube with a bracket where it could
rest on the gunwhale. This bracket contained a float and a staff. This would
protude out of the tube at eye level to indictae the number of 'dry inches'.
CL tools and equipment
BT gauging stick
BT measuring equipment
float (boat)
Craft with no hold and an overall deck, used to carry cargoes too heavy or
too big to go in a hold.
UF pontoon
CL transport
BT barge
float (component)
The timbers that bind together the upper end of a rudder blade.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT rudder
floor
The lowest part of the framing of a vessel.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT keel (boat component)
NT keelson
NT top timber
flush decked trow
A term used to describe a large wooden trow with a flat bottom, but with a
full length level deck with hatches and full length bulwarks that traded in the
Severn estuary below Gloucester.
CL transport
BT <trow by hull type>
fly boat
Became a term for boats working flat out aropund the clock, ie. 'working
fly'. Usually horse drawn boats.Fly boats often have finer lines which allow
them to slip through the water faster. Some loaded as little as 15 tons with a
very rounded bilge.
CL transport
BT cargo vessel
NT Leeds and Liverpool fly boat
foghorn
A device used to warn boats and ships in fog.
CL tools and equipment
BT horn
NT ship's foghorn
folding gauging stick
A gauging stick that folded up for easier portability.
CL tools and equipment
BT gauging stick
BT measuring equipment
fore cabin
The (usually) small cabin set into the bow of a boat.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
fore roller
A hand cranked roller on a keel, used for working the sails.
CL components
BT rigging component
fore stay
A rope or wire running from the head of a mast towards the bow of a vessel
to support the mast.
CL components
BT stay
RT anchor lamp
fore thwart
The seat placed across the width (beam) of a rowing boat at the bow.
CL components
BT thwart
foresail
A usually triangular sail, fitted at or near the bows of a vessel.
CL components
BT sail component
forming and shaping equipment
Equipment used for forming and shaping in an inland waterways context. Do
not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by process>
NT blacksmith's equipment
NT cutting equipment
NT drilling equipment
NT forming equipment
NT piercing equipment
forming equipment
Equipment used for forming in an inland waterways context. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT forming and shaping equipment
NT adze
Forth and Clyde scow
Scow 60 ft long and 13ft 6 inches wide for use on the Forth and Clyde or
Monklands Canal.
CL transport
BT scow
forward steering cruiser
Motor cruiser steered from the front.
CL transport
BT motor cruiser
founding equipment
Equipment used for founding in an inland waterways context. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by process>
NT bellows
NT pattern
NT tue iron
frame
Part of the 'skeleton' of a vessel to which the outer skin is fastened.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
NT cant frame
NT reverse frame
NT stern frame
RT floor
NT futtocks
NT keel (boat component)
NT keelson
NT top timber
french chalk vice
Device for holding french chalk used to mark steel, stone or, timber with
a straight line. Used by boatbuilders.
CL tools and equipment
BT holding and gripping equipment
frontloader
A boat in which the coxswain lies in the bows.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
frost cog
A screw in hardened point for horse shoes to provide grip on frozen ground
or icy brickwork in winter. Fitted with a special tool into threaded holes in
the shoe.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine maintenance equipment
RT frost nail
frost nail
Special hardened pointed horseshoe nail to provide the same grip as a
frost cog. Can be left in the shoe as it wears away becoming an ordinary nail
holding the shoe in the hoof.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine maintenance equipment
RT frost cog
full box trow
Trow with the hold built up and side decks flush with the bow.
CL transport
BT trow
fuller
A shaping tool with a long wire handle for use with hot metal. It is
triangular in shape but with a blunt edge for reducing the thickness of the
metal when struck. It can be used in 2 pieces as a top and bottom fuller.
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
NT bottom fuller
NT top fuller
funny
A narrow clinker-built boat, mainly used on the upper reaches of the
Thames. It accommodated a single person either for sculling matches or for
training purposes, it had full outriggers and double ends and was well pointed
at bow and stern. It was fairly deep for its length. NB- showed as inrigged in
'The Book of the Thames', 1859.
CL transport
BT clinker built boat
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
futtock saw
The name of the saws used for sawing the futtocks in a boat or ship. They
consist of a parallel web up to 5 feet long and 1.5 to 4.5 inches wide, coarse
teeth shaped for ripping and perforations at the end to be held in a frame.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT saw
BT shipbuilding equipment
RT futtocks
futtocks
Pieces of timber forming the frame of a vessel, secured to each other by
overlapping and fastening.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT frame
NT futtock saw
NT top timber
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