Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ying. 3. A rope to steady a body in hoisting. 4. A rope which trims and steadies a Imrcr stud-ding-sail boom. The foie-guy leads from the boom-end to the sprilsail-gajf, thence to the heel of thebowsprit, and thence inboard ; the after-guy leadsfrom the boom-end to a sheave in the ships side,and thence inboard. 5. A rope from the end of a jib-hooni or flyingjib-
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ying. 3. A rope to steady a body in hoisting. 4. A rope which trims and steadies a Imrcr stud-ding-sail boom. The foie-guy leads from the boom-end to the sprilsail-gajf, thence to the heel of thebowsprit, and thence inboard ; the after-guy leadsfrom the boom-end to a sheave in the ships side,and thence inboard. 5. A rope from the end of a jib-hooni or flyingjib-boom to the end of a spritsail-yard or sjiritsail-gnf, and thence to the ships bow, to stay the sparlaterally. Gybe. {Aautical.) The shifting over of theboom of a fore-and-aft sail. Gyle. 1. Fermented wort for making vinegar. 2. A large vat or cistern. The lii|Uor gyle in abrewery is the water-cistern or vat. A gyle-tun. Gypsum-furnace. A furnace in wliich naturalgypsum, a hydrate of sulphate of lime, is calcined ata comparatively low heat— about 300 F. — in orderto drive oH the water of constitution. Tlie processis called boiling, as the ebullition is very the illustration is shown a furnace containing Fig.
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