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nautical terms or words that originate from sailing:

"Hit the deck"
to "deck" someone, verb
"Helm's to lee"
dead in irons
belly-up (probably more of a fishing reference)
three sheets to the wind
flotsam
jetsam
jettison
deep-six


This probably doesn't interest anyone but me. But sailing interests me, so I'm putting this here for my own entertainment. I'm trying to think of words that are common phrases that are directly related to sailing but not necessarily used to talk about sailing, as opposed to words like "jib sheet" which are really only about sailing.

Comments

[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

You forgot to mention:

Pouring oil on troubled waters

It's an old british navay custum to try stop storms apparently!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

that's sonbritish then... I've never heard that before. You'd probably have a lot more terms like this than I would, living in UK.