LOOKING FOR MEANING IN SAIL DAYS.

A huge part of the English naval lexis refers to the sea, ships and shipping or sea trade. Some of the words were created locally, other were borrowed from different languages by the sons of Adam who preferred adventurous change to security in monotony. This paper is an attempt to blow the dust from an important number of sea words and give them a new life by disclosing the way they were formed. Wherever there was a story behind them, it was included both for reason of information and to make the stuff more reader friendly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]