Chapter I.
Of Dockes, and their definitions.
A DOCKE is a great pit or pond, or creeke
by a harbour side, made convenient to
worke in, with two great floud-gates built
so strong and close, that the Docke may
be dry till the ship be built or repaired,
and then being opened, let in the water to
float and lanch her, and this is called a dry
Docke. A wet Docke is any place, where
you may hale in a ship into the oze out of
the tides way, where shee may docke her
selfe. A cradel is a frame of timber, made along a ship, or the side of
a gally by her billidge,
for the more ease and safty in lanching, much
used in Turkie, Spaine, and Italy. And the stockes
are certaine
framed posts, much of the same nature upon the shore to build a
Pinnace, a Catch, a Frigot, or Boar, etc. To those Dockes for building
belongs their wood-yards, with saw-pits, and all sorts of timber;
but the masts and yards are ∥ chained together in some great water
to keepe them from rotting, and in season; Also a crab is necessary,
which is an engine of wood of three clawes, placed on the ground in
the nature of a Capsterne,
for the lanching of ships, or heaving them
into the Docke.
