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Notes
1 Oxford English Dictionary, OED Online, s.v. squilgee, accessed 12 Oct. 2015.
2 Smyth and Belcher, The Sailor’s Word-Book, 648; cf. Knight, Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, 2295/2: ‘Squilgee, an instrument like a hoe, covered with leather, to rub the decks after washing.’
3 Melville, Moby Dick , ch. 94, 466.
4 In addition to the OED, reference works relevant to this inquiry are Anglo-Norman Dictionary, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, An Icelandic-English Dictionary and Middle English Dictionary.
5 See, e.g., Sayers, ‘Old Norse Nautical Terminology’ and ‘Twelfth-Century Norman and Irish’.
6 Essential information on nautical design and in Bill, ‘Viking Age Ships’.
7 Also without explanation is burgee: ‘a swallow-tailed or tapered broad pendant; in the merchant service it generally has the ship’s name on it’ (Smyth, The Sailor’s Word-Book).
8 On the origin of this textile term, see Sayers, ‘Selvage’.
9 The identification of the medieval French suffix –age, introduced above, must now be dropped in favour of the derivation from the two roots in selvage ‘self-edge’.
10 Dana, Two Years before the Mast, xiv.
11 Houstoun, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, I. 39.
12 Lindqvist, Norn im keltischen Kontext, 30.