TUMBLE HOME: Refers to a cabin or hull with a width that becomes narrower as height increases.
TURNBUCKLE: A threaded, adjustable rigging fitting, used for stays, lifelines, and sometimes other rigging.
Tumble home -- When the sides of a vessel near the deck incline inward, the opposite to flaring.
Tyers -- Ropes that secure a mainsail when stowed.
Unbend -- To cast loose a sail from stay, gaff, boom or yard.
wall sided - Up and down sides of a vessel that neither tumble home nor flare out.
wallow - To lie in the trough of a sea and roll heavily; to roll under the sea.
TUMBLE HOME The decreasing of a vessel's beam above the waterline as it approaches the rail. Opposite of flare. TURNBUCKLES Used to pull objects together.
 See also: Screw, Shrouds, Cabin, Bar, Pay
  
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