Surfacing
In seafaring , surfacing is the proper folding of salvaged sails and flags that have been brought down.
The word must be more recent, because it cannot be found in the very old Low German literature.
It was not until the 18th century that it became a fixed term in sailors' language and at that time meant: spreading a removed sail on deck and rolling it up and lashing it as tightly as possible, for example to stow it in the ship at sea or in port To give land to a sailmaker for mending .
At the time of the great sailing ship, when the ships came on their long journeys through the most diverse climatic zones of the world and carried a wide variety of sails in them (depending on requirements), surfacing at sea was an often practiced practice.
The word has always remained limited to nautical usage and never entered the vocabulary of urban and rural residents.
See also
literature
- J. Friedrichson: Schifffahrts-Lexikon together with an outline of the history of shipping and its development , (one of the oldest shipping lexicons in the world in the version from 1879 reissued), Salzwasser-Verlag, Paderborn 2012
- Konrad Reich , Martin Pagel: Heavenly broom over white dogs: words and idioms, stories and anecdotes - a reading book for half-men and grown-ups who want to get clearer terms from the ship's people and the sea - brought up again and explained , transpress VEB Verlag for Transport Berlin, Berlin 1981
- Eduard Bobrik : General nautical dictionary with explanations: German; English; French; Spanish; Portuguese; Italian; Swedish; Danish; Dutch , published by Robert Hoffmann, Leipzig 1858