LABOURSOME

Subject to labour, or to pitch and roll violently in a heavy sea, by which the masts and even the hull may be endangered. For by a successive heavy roll the rigging becomes loosened, and the masts at the same time may strain upon the shrouds with an effort which they will be unable to resist; to which may be added, that the continual agitation of the vessel loosens her joints, and makes her extremely leaky.