HALF-TIDE ROCKS. Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (_See_ TIDE.)

HALF-TIMBERS. The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies,

answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body; they are placed so

as to give good shiftings.

HALF-TOP. The mode of making ships' tops in two pieces, which are

afterwards secured as a whole by what are termed sleepers.

HALF-TOPSAILS, UNDER. Said of a chase about 12 miles distant, the rest

being below the horizon.