y for the fore and main bowline-bridles.

BULL-TROUT. The salmon-trout of the Tweed. A large species of trout
taken in the waters of Northumberland.

BULLYRAG, TO. To reproach contemptuously, and in a hectoring manner; to
bluster, to abuse, and to insult noisily. Shakspeare makes mine host of
the Garter dub Falstaff a bully-rook.

BULWARK. The planking or wood-work round a vessel above her deck, and
fastened externally to the stanchions and timber-heads. In this form it
is a synonym of berthing. Also, the old name for a bastion.

BULWARK-NETTING. An ornamental frame of netting answering the purpose of
a bulwark.

BUMBARD. A cask or large vessel for liquids. (_See_ BOMBARD.) Trinculo,
in the "Tempest," thinks an impending storm-cloud "looks like a foul
bumbard."

BUM-BOAT. A boat employed to carry provisions, vegetables, and small
merchandise for sale to ships, either in port or lying at a distance
from the shore; thus serving to communicate with the adjacent town. The
name is corrupted from bombard, the vessels in which beer was formerly
carried to soldiers on duty.

BUMKIN, BUMPKIN, OR BOOMKIN. A short boom or beam of timber projecting
from each bow of a ship, where it is fayed down upon the false rail. Its
use is to extend the clue or lower corner of the fore-sail to windward,
for which purpose there is a large block fixed on its outer end, through
which the tack is passed, and when hauled tight down is said to be
aboard. The name is also applied to the pieces on each quarter, for the
main-brace blocks.

BUMKIN. A small out-rigger over the stern of a boat, usually serving to
extend the mizen.

BUMMAREE. A word synonymous with _bottomry_, in maritime law. It is also
a name given to a class of speculating salesmen of fish, not recognized
as regular tradesmen.

BUMP, TO. To bump a boat, is to pull astern of her in another, and
insultingly or inimically give her the stem; a practice in rivers and
narrow channels.

BUMP-ASHORE. Running stem-on to a beach or bank. A ship bumps by the
action of the waves lifting and dropping her on the bottom when she is
aground.

BUMPERS. Logs of wood placed over a ship's side to keep off ice.

BUND. In India, an embankment; whence, Bunda head, and Bunda boat.

BUNDLE-UP! The call to the men below to hurry up on deck.

BUNDLING THINGS INTO A BOAT. Loading it in a slovenly way.

BUNGLE, TO. To perform a duty in a slovenly manner.

BUNGO, OR BONGA. A sort of boat used in