Book brief -- "The Sailor's Illustrated Dictionary"

Originally published July 17

The language of sailors can be inexplicable to landlubbers.

Whether the lingo is technical, historical or traditional, it's still a foreign language.

Thompson's Lenfestey's "The Sailor's Illustrated Dictionary" ($24.95, Globe Pequot) will take the mystery out of 8,500 terms and phrases.

Need a Flinder's bar? Should you use a coffin plate? Replacing your snib? Looking for the first point of Aries? Need to know the nine definitions of drift?

This dictionary incorporates high-tech definitions as well as terms that haven't been commonly used since the Elizabethan Age.

-- Sharon Wootton

The Olympian Copyright 2001

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