messenger - A small line used to pull a heavier line or cable. The messenger line is usually easier to throw, lead through holes or otherwise manipulate than the line that it will be used to pull.
Messenger Line run through a single block, used to carry an object, such as another line, aloft.
Midships Order to the helmsman to put the rudder fore and aft.
Miss stays To stay up in the wind when tacking.
messenger - A light line used to pass a heavier line (hawser or halyard) to shore or another ship ...
messenger
A light line used to haul a heavier line or wire rope through a spar or block.
midships ...
Nipper - Short rope used to bind a cable to the "messenger" (a moving line propelled by the capstan) so that the cable is dragged along too (Used because the cable is too large to be wrapped round the capstan itself).
Messenger-A small line used to pull a heavier line or cable.
Mizzen - the shorter mast behind the main mast on a ketch or yawl.
Monohull -A boat with one hull.
Mooring -An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.
 See also: Secure, Course, Set, Mooring, Forward
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