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EARING	A rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed.
EIKING	A piece of wood fitted to make good a deficiency in length.
ELBOW	Two crosses in a hawse.
ESCUTCHEON	The part of a vessel's stern where her name is written.
EVEN-KEEL	The situation of a vessel when she is so trimmed that she sits evenly upon the water, neither end being down more than the other.
EUVROU	A piece of wood, by which the legs of the crow-foot to an awning are extended. (See UVROU.)
EYE	The circular part of a shroud or stay, where it goes over a mast. Eye-bolt . A long iron bar, having an eye at one end, driven through a vessel's deck or side into a timber or beam, with the eye remaining out, to hook a tackle to. If there is a ring through eye, it is called a ring-bolt . An Eye-splice is a certain kind of splice made with the end of a rope. ) Eyelet-hole . A hole made in a sail for a cringle or roband to go through. The Eyes of a vessel . A familiar phrase for the forward part.