ause is yet assigned. (_See_ ROLLER.)

GROUND-STRAKE. A name sometimes used for _garboard-strake_.

GROUND-SWELL. A sudden swell preceding a gale, which rises along shore,
often in fine weather, and when the sea beyond it is calm. (_See_
ROLLER.)

GROUND-TACKLE. A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture
which belong to the anchors, or which are employed in securing a ship in
a road or harbour.

GROUND-TIER. The lowest water-casks in the hold before the introduction
of iron tanks. It also implies anything else stowed there.

GROUND-TIMBERS. Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with
bolts through the kelson.

GROUND-WAYS. The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle
on which a ship is launched. Also, the foundation whereon a vessel is
built.

GROUP. A set of islands not ranged in a row so as to form a chain, and
the word is often used synonymously with _cluster_.

GROUPER. A variety of the snapper, which forms a staple article of food
in the Bermudas, and in the West Indies generally.

GROWEN. _See_ GROWN-SEA.

GROWING. Implies the direction of the cable from the ship towards the
anchors; as, the cable _grows_ on the starboard-bow, _i.e._ stretches
out forwards towards the starboard or right side.

GROWING PAY. That which succeeds the _dead-horse_, or pay in prospect.

GROWLERS. Smart, but sometimes all-jaw seamen, who have seen some
service, but indulge in invectives against restrictive regulations,
rendering them undesirable men. There are also too many "civil growlers"
of the same kidney.

GROWN-SEA. When the waves have felt the full influence of a gale.

GRUANE. The Erse term for the gills of a fish.

GRUB. A coarse but common term for provisions in general--

"In other words they toss'd the grub
Out of their own provision tub."

GRUB-TRAP. A vulgarism for the mouth.

GRUFF-GOODS. An Indian return cargo consisting of raw materials--cotton,
rice, pepper, sugar, hemp, saltpetre, &c.

GRUMBLER. A discontented yet often hard-working seaman. Also, the
gurnard, a fish of the blenny kind, which makes a rumbling noise when
struggling to disengage itself on reaching the surface.

GRUMMET. _See_ GROMMET.

GRUNTER. A name of the _Pogonias_ of Cuvier (a fish also termed the
banded drum and young sheepskin); and several other fish.

GRYPHON. An archaic term for the meteorological phenomenon now called
_typhoon_. (_See_ TYPHOON.)

GUANO. The excrement