ShirFgle

[Cor. from L. scindula, a wooden tile.] A thin piece of pine, cypre , cedar, or oak used as a roof tile; loose stones on the sea-shore or in the bed of a river. which spreads round the body like a girdle. sails, particularly one with three masts rigged with square sails. It is made up of hull, deck {q. v.), masts, yards, bow-sprit and rigging, ropes and chains. The front mast is the fore¬ mast, the middle mast the main-mast, and the hindmost the mizzen-mast, and when a fourth is Encyclopedic Dictionary of Common Things