Index to Volume Seven - The People - Dock Family Trees - Glossary . . .

Trenail, or Treenail - A wooden dowel pin used for fastening planks or specifically the timbers of ships. They are inserted when with a low moisture content and when wet, swell thus tightening the joint.

Vitriol - Sulphuric Acid - also used in the names of metallic sulphates, e.g. blue vitriol (copper sulphate) and green vitriol (ferrous sulphate). [400]

Carboy - A large globular glass bottle with a narrow neck, typically protected by a frame and used for holding acids or other corrosive liquids. [400]

Whiting - Ground chalk used for purposes such as whitewashing walls and cleaning metal plate. [400]

Pipe - A cask or measure of liquid capacity equal to 4 barrels, 2 hogsheads or half a tun and containing 126 wine gallons. [423]

Puncheon - A large cask for liquids or other commodities, holding from 72 to 120 gallons. [400]

Witheys - Willow used for basket making - grown in the Bristol Channel region on the Somerset Levels.

Hundredweight - One twentieth of an Imperial Ton - Abbreviated cwt.

Derelict - Foreign goods Derelict, Jetsam, Flotsam, Lagan or Wreck, brought or coming into GB or Ireland, are subject to the same duties and entitles to the same drawbacks as goods of the like kind regularly imported. [429]

Lascar - A sailor from India (or S. E. Asia) based upon the Persian Urdu term lashkar.

Crimp - Crimping - The act of persuading a sailor to desert his ship.

Crimps - Those who persuade, threaten, or press-gang sailors ; acting as agents for others who may gain by a sailor deserting his ship. In the context of South Wales 19th century maritime life, these people were normally boarding house landlords, brothel keepers, gambling or drinking house proprietors.