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Jeans mentions one modern authority, whose identity I should like to know, who makes the intriguing suggestion that horses aboard sailing ships often had to be lifted overboard into the sea to relieve their thirst, a theory that even Jeans regards as ludicrous.
A cat purchase is a rope tackle used for hauling an anchor, especially on a cat davit , a light crane used on small vessels to hoist an anchor so it can then be swung round to lower the anchor on to the deck or overboard.
He says the press has gone overboard in its investigation of President Clinton's personal life--although Clinton's lies in Flytrap have only justified the media's rapaciousness, he laments.
Both Lewis and Males go overboard, he by playing loose with statistics that demonize parents, she by romanticizing teen-agers.
The theory that the horse latitudes were so named because mariners becalmed there threw overboard the horses they were transporting because they died of thirst or starved seems almost impossible: in order for such an event to have given rise to horse latitudes it would have to have recurred many times, and it is hard to believe that 16th- and 17th-century mariners were so improvident as to have allowed that to happen very often.