MDA Waterways Object Name Thesaurus
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face piece
Decorative leather flap fitted with large brasses. It hangs centrally down the horse's forehead, between the eyes.

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BT equine powered propulsion system componentLink to term


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.

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BT above decks watercraft componentLink to term
RT cratchLink to term
NT cratch board (horizontal)Link to term
NT deck boardLink to term
NT running planksLink to term


false martingale

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fastener
Grouping term for fasteners associated with inland waterways. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.

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NT back flapLink to term
NT boltLink to term
NT nailLink to term
NT pinLink to term
NT rivetLink to term
NT roveLink to term
NT rudder pintleLink to term


feed bag
Heavy duty reinforced small sack of woven jute with suspension straps - as used generally for carthorses. Common on London area canals.

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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.

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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.

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feed can

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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.

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UF nose tinLink to term
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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.

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BT lighterLink to term
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Fen punt
Fenland open craft up to 18ft in length.

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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.

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BT boat equipmentLink to term
NT bow fenderLink to term
NT stem fenderLink to term
NT stern fenderLink to term
NT tip cat fenderLink to term
RT ropeworkLink to term


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.

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fibreglass boat
A boat whose main construction material is fibreglass.

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fid
A tapered, usually wooden, pin used in opening the strands of a rope when splicing rope ends or carrying out decorative ropework.

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NT hand fidLink to term


fire fighting vessel
A craft designed to fight fire as its sole job.

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fire float

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first boat

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fishing dinghy
Wooden rowing boat used to carry anglers.

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fixed line powered boat
A boat whose motive power source is provided by a fixed line.

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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.

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BT blacksmith's equipmentLink to term


flatter

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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'.

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float (boat)
Craft with no hold and an overall deck, used to carry cargoes too heavy or too big to go in a hold.

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float (component)
The timbers that bind together the upper end of a rudder blade.

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RT rudderLink to term


floor
The lowest part of the framing of a vessel.

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RT keel (boat component)Link to term
NT keelsonLink to term
NT top timberLink to term


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.

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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.

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NT Leeds and Liverpool fly boatLink to term


foghorn
A device used to warn boats and ships in fog.

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BT hornLink to term
NT ship's foghornLink to term


folding gauging stick
A gauging stick that folded up for easier portability.

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BT measuring equipmentLink to term


fore cabin
The (usually) small cabin set into the bow of a boat.

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fore roller
A hand cranked roller on a keel, used for working the sails.

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fore stay
A rope or wire running from the head of a mast towards the bow of a vessel to support the mast.

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RT anchor lampLink to term


fore thwart
The seat placed across the width (beam) of a rowing boat at the bow.

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foresail
A usually triangular sail, fitted at or near the bows of a vessel.

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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.

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NT cutting equipmentLink to term
NT drilling equipmentLink to term
NT forming equipmentLink to term
NT piercing equipmentLink to term


forming equipment
Equipment used for forming in an inland waterways context. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.

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NT adzeLink to term


Forth and Clyde scow
Scow 60 ft long and 13ft 6 inches wide for use on the Forth and Clyde or Monklands Canal.

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forward steering cruiser
Motor cruiser steered from the front.

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founding equipment
Equipment used for founding in an inland waterways context. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.

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NT bellowsLink to term
NT patternLink to term
NT tue ironLink to term


frame
Part of the 'skeleton' of a vessel to which the outer skin is fastened.

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BT below decks watercraft componentLink to term
NT cant frameLink to term
NT reverse frameLink to term
NT stern frameLink to term
RT floorLink to term
NT futtocksLink to term
NT keel (boat component)Link to term
NT keelsonLink to term
NT top timberLink to term


french chalk vice
Device for holding french chalk used to mark steel, stone or, timber with a straight line. Used by boatbuilders.

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frontloader
A boat in which the coxswain lies in the bows.

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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.

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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.

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full box trow
Trow with the hold built up and side decks flush with the bow.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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BT sawLink to term
BT shipbuilding equipmentLink to term
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futtocks
Pieces of timber forming the frame of a vessel, secured to each other by overlapping and fastening.

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BT below decks watercraft componentLink to term
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NT futtock sawLink to term
NT top timberLink to term



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