long on beams or ropes.

TRAVELLER. One or more iron thimbles with a rope spliced round them,
sometimes forming a kind of tail, but more generally a species of
grummet.--_Traveller of boat's masts_, _jib-boom_, &c. An iron ring
fitted so as to slip up and down a spar, to run in and out on a boom or
gaff, for the purpose of extending or drawing in the outer corner or
tack of the sail.

TRAVELLER-IRON. To a cutter's fore-sail, boom-mainsail, or spanker-boom;
generally termed traveller horse. (_See_ HORSE.)

TRAVELLING-BACKSTAYS, are generally the breast-backstays, which set up
with a runner purchase in the channels on the weather side; that to
leeward is let go in stays. The traveller is a strong parrel-strop which
passes round the mast, and through two thimbles of which the breast
backstays reeve. As the yard is hoisted this slips up, but when a reef
is taken in it is rode down by the feet of two men close to the
tye-block, and thus supports the mast from the top-rim to the parrel.

TRAVELLING-GUYS. The jib traveller guys are seized on to the traveller,
and are shortened in and set up when the jib is eased in.

TRAVELLING-MARTINGALE. A similar contrivance adapted to a martingale to
support the jib-boom in that particular part where the jib-tack is
fixed. (_See_ MARTINGALE.)

TRAVERSE. Denotes the several courses a ship makes under the changes of
wind or man[oe]uvres. It is self-evident that if she steered a course
there would be no traverse. But her course being north, and the wind
from the north, it is evident she could have but two courses open to
her, E.N.E., or W.N.W. The reduction of the distances run on each
course, corrected for variation and lee-way, constitutes the traverse
table, from which the reckoning is deduced each day up to noon. From
this zig-zag set of lines we have the term _Tom Cox's traverse_ (which
see). Also, in fortification, a mound, often of parapet form, raised to
cover from enfilade or reverse fire. Also, to traverse a gun or mortar.
To alter its direction from right to left, or _vice versa_, with
handspikes, tackles, &c.

TRAVERSE A YARD, TO. To get it fore and aft.

TRAVERSE-BOARD. A thin circular piece of board, marked with all the
points of the compass, and having eight holes bored in each, and eight
small pegs hanging from the centre of the board. It is used to determine
the different courses run by a ship during a watch, by sticking one peg
into the point on which the ship has r