In the Article
Aller en course, read, in search of an enemy.
AMURÉ, r. larboard or starboard-tacks.
Barres de panneaux, &c. r. under the covers of the hatchways.
Cheville œillets, &c. r. Cheville à œillets, &c.
Clef des etains, for cheek, r. chock.
Corde de retenue (art. 2d.) r. also the pendant, &c.
Coup de partance, r. as a signal, &c.
For DEPLOER, r. DEPLOIER.
Faire honneur, for a quelqu’ r. à quelqu’, &c.
Faire le petit, r. Faire la petit, &c.
FERS, r. de boute-dehors.
Filet, &c. for merlin, a marling, r. merlin, marline, &c.
For La lune à Mangé, r. la lune a Mangé, &c.
Marche-pied, for draw their boats, r. drawboats, &c.
OLOFÉE, for spring, r. springing, &c.
PACFI, after Pafi, r. a course, as le grand &c.
Piece de charpente, for pieces, r. piece.
Pompe, for Vénitienne, r. Vénetienne.
Longue RIME, for along stroke, r. a long stroke.
After SOU-BARBE, r. the bob-stay; also a bracket, &c.
SOULIE, for on shore, r. or shore.
TIERS point, for Lateen, r. Latine.
Tremue, for comeings, r. coamings.
ABATÉE, or Abbatée, fallen off to a certain point; expressed of a ship when she lies by, with some of her sails aback.
ABATTRE, to bear away, to drive, to edge farther to leeward.
Abattre un vaisseau, to heave down or careen a ship.
Le vaisseau s’ABAT, the ship drives or falls to leeward. This phrase is more peculiar to the motion of a ship when her anchor is loosened from the ground.
ABORDAGE, the shock or concussion produced by two vessels striking each other in battle or otherwise; also the assault of boarding.
Aller à l’ABORDAGE, sauter à l’ABORDAGE, to board or enter an enemy’s ship in an hostile manner.
ABORDER, to fall or drive aboard a ship, by accident, or neglect of the steersman; spoken of two vessels when one or both are under sail, or otherwise in motion.
Aborder un vaisseau de bout au corps, to lay a ship aboard by running the bowsprit over her waist.
ABOUGRI, or Rabougri, cross-grained, or knotty; a term applied by shipwrights to timber which is, by this quality, rendered unfit for ship-building.
ABOUT, the butt or end of any plank: also the place where the ends of two planks are joined on the ship’s side, &c.
ABRI, a place of anchorage under shelter of the weather-shore. Hence
ABRIÉ, becalmed, sheltered from the wind.
ACASTILLAGE, or rather Encastillage, a general name for the quarter-deck, poop, and fore-castle. Hence accastillé answers to deep-waisted.
ACCLAMPER, to fortify a piece of wood by attaching another piece thereto; as the fishes which are fixed on the masts.
ACCON, a small flat-bottomed boat, for fishing of cockles.
ACCORD, the order to pull together on a rope or tackle; also to row together, or pull uniformly with the oars.
ACCORDS, or Accores, props or shoars fixed under a ship’s wales, to keep her upright, before she is launched, or when she is brought into dock, or laid aground.
Accord droit, an upright shoar or prop.
ACCORER, to prop or sustain any weighty body, as a ship on the ground.
ACCOSTE, come aboard, or come along-side; the order given to a small vessel or boat, to approach a ship.
ACCOSTER, or Accoter, to pull or thrust any thing near or close to some other, as the two blocks of a tackle, &c.
Accoster les huniers ou les perroquets, to haul home the top-sail sheets, or top-gallant sheets.
ACCOTAR, the gunnel-plank of a ship. See Plat-bord.
ACCOURSIE, a passage formed in a ship’s hold, by a separation of her stores, cargo, or provisions, when she is laden, to go fore and aft, as occasion requires.
ACCROCHER, the act of boarding and grappling an enemy’s ship.
ACCUL, the depth of a bay, or small road,
ACCULEMENT, the concavity and figure of those timbers which are placed upon the keel, towards the extremities of a ship.
ACROTERE, a cape, head-land, or promontory.
ACTE de delai, an act by which a debtor loses all his effects by shipwreck.
ADIEU-VA, an expression of command, used by the master or pilot, to bid the ship’s crew prepare for tacking, or veering, when the course is to be changed.
ADDONER, to scant, or veer forward; expressed of the wind when it becomes unfavourable.
AFFALE, the order to lower or let down any thing.
Affalé, to be embayed, or forced, by the violence of the wind, or current, near to a lee shore.
AFFALER, to lower any thing by a tackle, as a yard, sail, cask, &c.
AFFINE, it clears away, or becomes fair: understood of the weather, after having been cloudy or over-cast for some time.
AFFOLÉE, erroneous or defective; spoken of a magnetical needle which has lost its virtue.
AFFOURCHER, to moor, or let go a second anchor, so that a ship may ride between the two, which will bear an equal strain.
AFFRANCHIR, to free the ship, or clear her hold of water by the pumps.
AFFRÉTEMENT, the freight of a merchant-ship. Hence
AFFRETER, to freight.
AFFUT de mer, the carriage of a cannon used at sea.
AGITER, to swell, or run high; expressed of a turbulent sea.
AGRÉER, to rig a ship, or equip her with yards, sails, rigging, &c.
AGREILS, or Agrès. There is no sea-term in English which answers to this expression, in its full extent; unless we adopt the obsolete word Tackling, which is now entirely disused by our mariners. The French term comprehends the rigging, yards, sails, blocks, cables, and anchors; and is probably better translated, machinery or furniture.
AIDE major, an officer whose duty resembles that of our adjutant of marines.
Aide de canonnier. See Canonnier.
AIGU, sharp or narrow towards the two ends, afore and abaft.
AIGUADE, a watering-place for shipping; also the provision or quantity of fresh water necessary for a sea-voyage.
AIGUILLE, part of a ship’s cut-water. See Eperon. This term appears to be obsolete, as it is not once mentioned by M. Du Hamel, who is very minute in describing the several pieces of the cut-water.
Aiguille also implies a top-mast, or such like piece of timber employed to support a lower-mast, in the act of careening.
Aiguille de fanal, an iron crank or brace, used to sustain the poop-lanthern.
Aiguille aimantée, the magnetical needle.
AIGUILLES de tré or de trevier, sail-needles, bolt-rope-needles.
AIGUILLETES. See Porques.
AILURES. See Illoires.
AIMANT, the magnet or loadstone.
AIR de vent, the point of the compass in which the wind fits.
AISEMENT, a place of convenience in the gallery or head of a ship.
AISSADE, that part of the poop where the ship’s breadth begins to diminish as it approaches the stern.
A LA BOULINE, close hauled. See Aller à la bouline.
ALARGUER, to sheer off; to sail aloof from the shore or some contiguous object.
A L’AUTRE, an exclamation pronounced by the sailors of the watch, at the striking of the watch-bell, every half hour to signify to the pilot that they keep a good look-out. See Look-out afore.
ALIDADE, the index of a nocturnal or sea-quadrant. See Octant.
ALIZÉ, the reigning wind of a particular season or region.
ALLEGE, a lighter or pram.
ALLÉGER un vaisseau, to lighten a ship by taking out part of her lading.
Alléger le cable, to buoy up the cable by attaching barrels, or pieces of timber, to it lengthwise, to float it up from a rocky or foul ground: also to veer away the cable.
ALLER à la bouline, to sail close by the wind, or close hauled.
Aller à grasse bouline, to sail with the wind upon the beam, or large.
Aller à la derive, to try under bare poles, or to try a hull. See Dérive.
Aller au plus près du vent, to sail as near the wind as possible.
Aller de bout au vent, to go head to wind, to sail right in the wind’s eye.
Aller en course, to cruise against, or in search of, an enemy.
Aller entre deux écoutes, to sail right afore the wind, or with both sheets aft.
Aller vent largue, to sail large, or with a large wind.
Aller terre à terre, to coast, or sail along shore.
ALLONGE, a futtock, or top-timber. See Couple and Varangue.
ALMADIE, a small African canoe, formed of the bark of a tree.
ALONGER un vaisseau, to lay a ship along-side of another.
Alonger le cable, to haul up a range of the cable upon deck.
Alonger la vergue de civadiere, to get the sprit-sail yard fore and aft under the bowsprit.
Alonger la terre, to sail along shore.
AMARQUE, the beacon, or buoy, of a shoal, flat, or sand-bank.
AMARRAGE, the ground-tackling, or furniture for mooring a ship.
Ligne d’Amarrage, a seising or lashing.
AMARRE, the order to fasten or belay a rope.
Amarre de bout, the head-fast, the head-cable, or hawser with its anchor.
AMARRER, to make fast, seise, or belay.
AMATELOTER, to mess together, to associate as comrades or mess-mates.
AME d’un gross cordage, the middle strand of a four stranded rope.
AMENER, to lower or strike. Hence Amene, lower away, or strike.
Amener une terre, to make the land, &c.
AMIRAL, Admiral. Hence
AMIRAUTÉ, the admiralty.
AMOLETTES or Amelotes, the bar-holes of the capstern or windlass.
AMORCER, to prime a cannon or other fire-arm.
AMPOULETTE, the watch-glass, kept in the binacle.
AMURÉ à babord, or à stribord, to have the larboard tacks aboard.
AMURER, to haul aboard the main or fore-tack.
Amurer la grand voile, to bring aboard the main tack. Hence
Amurer tout bas implies to get the tacks close aboard, or down as close as possible.
AMURES. See Dogue d’Amure.
Amures d’une voile, the tacks of boom-sails and stay-sails.
ANCETTES, the bow-line cringles in the bolt-rope of a sail.
ANCRE, an anchor. Hence Ancrage, the duty of anchorage. See Mouillage.
Ancre à demeure, a large anchor sunk in a road or harbour, to warp ships in and out, or ride them a short time.
Ancre à la veille, an anchor which is ready to be sunk from the ship.
Ancre de flot, & Ancre de jussant, the flood-anchor and ebb-anchor.
Ancre de terre, the shore-anchor, or that which lies towards the shore.
Ancre du large, the sea-anchor, or that which lies towards the offing.
L’Ancre a quitté, l’Ancre est dérangée, the anchor is a-trip, or a-weigh.
L’Ancre est au bossoir, the anchor is at the cat-head.
A l’Ancre, see Vaisseau à l’ancre. Bosser l’Ancre, see Bosser. Caponner l’Ancre, see Capon.
Faire venir l’Ancre à pic, or à pique, virer à pic, to heave a-peek upon the anchor.
Gouverner sur l’Ancre, to sheer the ship to her anchor, when heaving a-head.
Lever l’Ancre, to heave up the anchor, to weigh.
Chasser sur les Ancres, to drag the anchors, to drive at anchor.
Filer sur les Ancres. See Filer.
Leve l’Ancre avec la chaloupe, go and weigh the anchor with the long-boat.
Leve l’Ancre d’affourché, the order to veer away one cable, and heave upon the other.
ANCRER, or Jetter l’ancre, Mouiller l’ancre, or simply Mouiller, Donner fond, Mettre, or Avoir le vaisseau sur le fer, Toucher, Laisser tomber l’ancre. All these terms are synonimous, and signify to bring up, to anchor, to come to anchor, or to let go the anchor.
ANGE, chain-shot.
ANGUILLERES, Anguilles, or Anguillées, Lumieres, Vitonnieres, synonimous terms, which signify the limber-holes.
ANNEAU pour attacher les vaisseaux, a mooring-ring on a wharf, buoy, &c.
Anneau de corde, a slipping-noose, a running bowline-knot.
ANNEAUX d’écoutilles, or boucles, ring-bolts of the deck, &c.
Anneaux d’étai, the hanks of a stay-sail. See Daillots.
Anneaux de sabords, ring-bolts of the gun-ports.
ANORDIE, a northerly storm peculiar to the gulph of Mexico, and the adjacent coasts, at certain seasons of the year, called by the English Creoles, a North.
ANSE, a bight or small bay.
ANSPECT, a handspike or lever.
ANTENNE, a lateen sail-yard. See Vergue.
ANTOIT, a crooked instrument of iron, used to bind the side-planks round the timbers in ship-building. English artificers perform this operation by wraining-bolts and staffs.
A PIC, a-peek, perpendicularly above the anchor, with a tight cable.
APIQUER une vergue, to top a sail-yard, or peek it up.
APLESTER, or Aplestrer, to unfurl and set the sails, ready for putting to sea.
APOSTIS, the row-locks of a galley.
APOTRES, the hawse-pieces of a ship.
APPARAUX, or Aparaux, the whole furniture of a ship, as the sails, yards, blocks, anchors, cables, helm, and artillery. This term is therefore more comprehensive than Agrès, and less so than Equippement, which, besides the above, includes the seamen, soldiers, and their provision.
APPARCELADO, a flat, equal and uniform bottom of the sea.
APPAREIL de carene, the careening-purchases; also the necessary implements and materials employed in careening.
Appareil de pompe, the pump-gear, as the boxes, brake, spear, &c.
APPAREILER, to make ready for sailing, to get under sail.
APPARTEMENT, a birth, cabin, or store room, in a ship.
APPOINTÉ, a mariner whose passage is paid by the state, and who is not obliged to work in the ship that carries him.
APPROCHER du vent. See Aller à la bouline.
AQUE, or Acque, a sort of flat bottomed lighter employed on the Rhine.
ARAIGNÉES, the crow-feet of the tops.
ARAMBER, to close in with a ship and grapple her.
ARBALETE, a cross-staff or fore-staff.
ARBALETRIERE, a platform, or gangway, on which the soldiers stand to fire their musquetry in a row-galley.
ARBORER un mât, to step or set up a mast, to get the mast an end.
Arborer un pavillon, to hoist and display a flag or ensign.
ARBRE, a mast, in the dialect of Provence. See Mat.
ARC, or ligne courbe de l’éperon, the curve of the prow or cutwater.
ARCANNE, a sort of red chalk used by shipwrights in France, to mark the timber in hewing or forming it.
ARCASSE, the stern of a ship; also the shell of a block.
ARCBOUTANT, a spar or small mast; more particularly, a boom to extend the bottom of a studding-sail, square-sail, or driver.
Arcboutant d’échafaud, the prop or shoar of a scaffold used in ship-building.
ARCEAUX, a name formerly given to the rails of the head. See Lisse de poulaine.
ARCENAL de marine, a royal dock-yard, with its warren or gun-wharf.
ARCHE, a thin covering of lath or shingle, and sometimes of rope, which cases the ship’s pump like a sheath, to preserve and keep it tight.
ARCHIPOMPE, the pump-well.
ARCHITECTURE navale, the art of ship-building.
ARDENT, a corposant, or meteor, often seen at sea in a storm. See Feu St. Elme.
Ardent, the quality of griping in the steerage, or carrying a weatherly helm.
ARER, or Chasser, to chase. See Chasser.
ARGANEAU, or Organeau, a ring-bolt of the deck or sides of a ship.
Arganeau d’ancre, the anchor-ring.
ARGOUSIN, a petty officer in the gallies, whose duty it is to fix on, or take off the shackles of the slaves, and to prevent them from escaping. It answers nearly to the corporal of a ship of war. See Prevôt.
ARISER les vergues, to strike the lower yards down upon the gunnel.
ARMADILLE, a small squadron of Spanish frigates of War, usually employed to guard the coast of New Spain, and prevent illicit trade.
ARMATEUR, a privateer or cruiser. See Corsaire.
Vaisseau ARMÉ en guerre, a merchant-vessel fitted for war, and furnished with a letter of marque to cruise against the enemy.
ARMÉE navale, a naval armament, a fleet of ships of war.
ARMEMENT, the equipment or fitting out of a ship of war, or merchantman, for a cruise, or voyage.
Etat d’Armement, a list of the officers intended to serve in a squadron of men of war.
ARMER les avirons, to ship the oars ready for rowing.
Armer un vaisseau, to arm a ship for war, or equip her for a voyage.
ARMURIER, the armourer of a vessel of war.
ARONDELLES de mer, a general name for small vessels, as brigs, settees, tartans, &c.
ARQUÉ, broken-backed or hogged, drooping at the stem and stern.
ARRET de vaisseaux & fermetures de port, an embargo laid on shipping,
ARRIERE, abaft; the hind part of a ship.
Faire vent Arriere, to bring the wind aft, or astern.
Arriere-garde d’une armée navale, the rear-division of a fleet of vessels of war.
ARRIMAGE, the stowage or disposition of the cargo in the hold.
ARRIMER, to stow the hold, to trim the ship by her stowage. Whence
ARRIMEUR, a stower.
ARRISER, or Amener. See Amener.
ARRIVAGE, an arrival of merchandise in a port or haven.
ARRIVE, the order to put the helm a-weather, bear away, or edge farther to leeward.
Arrive tout, hard a-weather. The order to put the helm close to windward.
N’Arrive pas, don’t fall off; loft.
ARRIVÉE, the movement of veering or bearing away.
ARRIVER, to bear away before the wind. Hence
Arriver sur un vaisseau, to bear down on a ship.
Arriver beaucoup, to veer apace.
ARTILLÉ, or Artillié, mounted with cannon: as, vaisseau ARTILLIÉ de trents pieces, a ship mounting thirty guns.
ARTIMON, the mizen-mast, also the mizen itself.
ASPECT, the looming or perspective view of the land from the sea.
ASSECHER, etre à sec, to appear dry, as a rock or shore when the tide of ebb has retreated from it.
ASSEMBLER, to unite the several pieces of a ship, as by rabbiting, scarfing, scoring, tenanting, &c.
ASSUJETTIR, to fix a piece of timber firmly in its place, in shipbuilding.
ASSURANCE, a contract or policy of insurance.
Pavillon d’Assurance, a flag or signal of peace.
ASSURER, to insure a vessel against the dangers of the sea, &c.
ASTROLABE, a nocturnal.
A TRAIT & à rame, to go with sails and oars.
ATTEINDRE, to join a ship at sea, either by accident or pursuit.
ATTELIER de Construction, a shed or store-house to contain shipwrights tools; a loft or work-house near the dock; a wharf, or place for building sea-vessels.
ATTÉRAGE, a land-fall. Whence
ATTERIR, to make the land.
ATTERRISSEMENT, a mound or bank of earth thrown up near the margin of a river, by violent freshes or storms.
ATTOLONS, a cluster of keys or small islands, a chain of rocks.
ATTRAPE, the pendant or guy of the relieving tackle used in careening a ship. See Corde de retenue.
AVAL. See Avau l’eau.
AVANT, forward, afore, ahead.
Etre de l’Avant, se mettre de l’Avant, to be in the van of, or ahead in, a fleet.
Le vaisseau est trop sur l’Avant, the vessel is too much by the head.
AVANTAGE, the head, with its cutwater or prow. See Eperon.
Avantage du vent, to be to windward of some other ship.
Avant-garde, the van of a fleet of vessels of war.
AVARIE, the damage or loss which a ship may have sustained, by accidents or bad weather, in her voyage; also the duty paid for anchoring in a port.
AVASTE, avast.
AVAU l’eau, to sail with the tide, to tide it up or down a river.
AUBALÉTRIERES, a sort of stanchions or pillars erected on the sides of a row-galley, to support the rails of the gang-way, and form the bed-place of a soldier.
AUBIER, the sap of timber.
AUBINET, or Saint Aubinet, no man’s land.
AUGE à goudron, a tar-bucket.
AVIRON, an oar. See Rame.
AVITAILLEMENT, or Avictuaillement, the sea-victualling or provision of a ship.
AVITAILLEUR, or Avictuailleur, an agent-victualler, or contractor for supplying a ship with sea-provisions.
AU LOF, luff. The order from the pilot to steer nearer the wind. See Olofée.
AUMONIER, the sea-chaplain.
AVOCAT Fiscal. See Fiscal.
AVOIER, to rise, to freshen; expressed of the wind when it has changed.
AVOIR gagné, to have fore-reached, or gained upon; spoken of a vessel, relatively to some other in sight.
Avoir le pied marin, to have good sea-shoes aboard, to walk firm in a ship like a sailor.
Avoir pratique, to have pratic, or free intercourse with the natives, after having performed quarantine.
Avoir vent arriere, to have the wind aft.
Avoir vent de bout, to have the wind right an end, or a head. See Aller de bout, &c.
AU plus pres de vent, close upon a wind. See Aller au plus pres, &c.
AUSSIERE, or Hausiere, a hawser or small cable.
AUTAN, a gust or squall of wind from the south.
AUTARELLES, the thoules or rowlock-pins of a galley.
AVUSTE, or Ajuste, a bend, or knot, by which the ends of two ropes are fastened together.
AVUSTER, to bend or tie two ends of ropes together.
BABORD. See Bas-bord.
BAC, a large flat-bottomed ferry-boat, for horses, carriages, &c.
Bac a naviger, a punt, or small boat, used by the shipwrights to carry tar, pitch, &c.
BACALAS, cleats of various kinds.
BACALIAU, a name given to dried salt cod-fish.
BACASSAS, a sort of lighter, somewhat resembling an American periagua.
BACHE, or Bachot, a yawl or wherry.
BACLAGE, a tier of boats, moored along-side of each other.
BACLER les ports, to fortify harbours by fixing chains or booms athwart their entrances; also to bar in the gun ports of a ship.
BAGUE, a small grommet, or wreath of an eye-let hole in a sail.
BAIE. See Baye.
BAILLE, an half-tub used to contain shot, grenades, matches, &c. also to hold water for cooling the guns in time of action, or to freshen the salt provisions.
BAJOU, or Bajon, a sort of tiller.
BAISSER, to fall down with the tide, to drive or be carried along, according to the course of the stream.
Baisser le pavillon. See Amener.
Baisser les voiles, to lower the sails.
BALAI du ciel, the sweeper of the sky; a name given by sailors to the north-west winds of America, which always bring clear weather.
BALANCIER de lampe, the rings by which the lamp is slung in the binacle.
BALANCIERS de compas, or de boussole, the gimbals of a sea-compass, by which it is hung in equilibrio.
BALANCINES, or Valancines, lifts of the yards.
Balancine de chaloupe, the topping-lift of a boat.
BALANT, the bight or slack part of a rope, also the part which is unemployed.
BALAST. See Lest.
BALAYEUR d’un navire, the swabber or sweeper of a ship, usually called captain-swabber.
BALCONS, the galleries framed in the stern or quarter of a great ship.
BALISE, a sea-mark, the beacon or buoy of a shoal or dangerous channel.
BALOIRES, a name sometimes given to water-lines, and to horizontal ribbands. See Ligne d’eau.
BALON, a sort of galley or barge of Siam.
BANC, a sand-bank; also the bench, thwart, or beam of a boat.
Banc à s’asseoir, the seats or benches placed in the stern-sheets of a boat or small vessel.
Banc à coucher, a sort of folding bed-stead, or settee-bed.
Bancs de rameurs, the thwarts or seats of the rowers in a galley or row-boat.
BANCHE, a ridge or reef of rocks, under the surface of the water.
BANDE, the side of a ship; also a coast, or the side of a river. Hence
Bande du nord, the northern shore, &c.
Avoir son vaisseau à la Bande, to have his ship laid on the careen.
Bande de sabords, a tier of gun-ports on one side of a ship.
BANDER une voile, to line a sail at the edges in order to strengthen it.
BANDIERES, the flag or colours: this term is peculiar to the gallies.
BANDINS, a sort of stancheons or small pillars, ornamented with sculpture, and used to support the after-canopy or awning of a row-galley.
BANDOULIERE, a cartridge-box for musquetry, used by the marines or others who fight with small arms.
BANNEAU. See Bouée.
BANNIERE, a Levantine term for the colours. See Bandiere.
BANQUE, a banker, or vessel which fishes on the banks of Newfoundland, &c.
BANQUETTES, the stretchers of a galley or row-boat.
BAPTEME, the ceremony of ducking a sailor the first time he passes the line, or tropics, from which he may be redeemed by paying a certain forfeit. Hence
BAPTISER, to duck, &c.
Baptiser un vaisseau, to give a ship her name at the time of launching.
BARAT, or Baraterie, the forfeiture or fine paid by the master of a ship and his crew, for embezzling part of the cargo, or suffering it to be damaged by neglect of stowage, &c.
BARBE. See Sainte-Barbe.
BARBES d’un vaisseau, the entrance or fore-foot of a ship.
BARBEYER, to touch or shiver; expressed of a sail when shaking in the wind.
BARCES, a short cannon, resembling a falconet, formerly used at sea.
BARCO-LONGO, a Spanish coasting-boat.
BARDIS, water-boards or weather-boards.
Bardis also implies the partitions occasionally formed in the hold to separate different species of grain, when the ship is laden therewith, &c.
BARGE, an old word for skiff or yawl.
BARIL, Barillage, Barique, small casks of different sizes.
Baril de poudre, a powder cask, containing an hundred pounds of gun-powder.
Barillard, the steward, or officer who has charge of the wine and water on board of a vessel. This term is peculiar to the galleys.
BARIQUES a feu, or foudroyantes, thundering-barrels, or casks which contain the fire-pots in a fire ship.
BARQUE, a settee, or three-masted vessel with lateen sails.
Barque à eau, a watering-boat, or vessel employed for carrying water.
Barque d’avis, an advice-boat.
Barque de descente, a sort of lighter.
Barque de vivandier, a provision-boat, a bumboat.
Barque droite, the order to trim the boat upright, when she heels.
Barque en fagot, a boat in frame, an assemblage of all the pieces of a boat, ready formed and put on board a ship, in order to build her at the place where she may be required.
Barque longue, or double chaloupe, a sort of pinnace, or large long-boat.
BARQUEROLES, Barquette, or Barcanette, a sort of passage boats.
BARRE, the bar of a harbour; also a chain of rocks.
Barre à bord, hard over; the order to put the helm close to the ship’s side.
Barre d’arcasse, a transom. See Lisse de hourdi.
Barre de gouvernail, the tiller of the helm.
Barre de gouvernail toute à bord, the whole force of the helm when the tiller is hard a-starboard, or hard a-port.
Change la Barre, the order to the steersman to shift the helm.
Pousse la Barre à arriver, no nearer, put the helm a-weather.
Pousse la Barre à venir au vent, luff, or keep your luff.
Barre de pompe, the pump-spear.
Barre de pont, the deck-transom, parallel to the wing-transom.
BARRER, to secure; as, Barrer un port, to secure or defend a harbour, by fixing a boom across the mouth of it.
BARRES, the booms or chains fixed across a harbour, to secure it from the assaults of an enemy.
Barres de cabestan, the bars of the crab or capstern.
Barres de contre-arcasse, or sous-barres d’arcasse, the lower transoms.
Barres d’écoutille, the hatch-bars.
Barres de hune, barreaux, or tesseaux, the frames of the cross-trees and tressel-trees.
Barres de panneaux d’écoutille, the carlings, or ledges placed athwart under the hatchways.
Barres de porte, the gun-port bars, by which their covers are fastened in.
Barres de virevaut, the hand-spikes, or bars of the windlass.
BARRILLARD. See Barillard.
BARROTE, full to the beams; an epithet given to a vessel which is laden up to the beams of her deck. Whence
BARROTER, to lade a ship, &c.
BARROTS, the beams of the higher decks.
BARROTINS, ledges, or small spars, placed between the beams.
Barrotins de caillebotis, ledges of the gratings.
Barrotins d’écoutilles, the spurs of the beams, or the pieces which are joined to the beams to fortify the deck a-breast of the hatchways.
BAS de soie, iron-garters; a cant term applied to bilboes or fetters.
Bas du vaisseau, the lower parts of a ship.
Bas le pavillon, haul down the colours.
BASBORD, the larboard or left side of a ship.
Vaisseau de Basbord, a low-built vessel, whose deck extends not to her whole length.
Basbord tout, hard a-port; the order to put the helm close to the larboard side.
BASBORDES or Basborduis, the larboard-watch.
BASE des sabords, the plank between the lower edges of the gun-ports and the wale.
BAS-FOND, a shoal or shallow.
BASSE, or Bature, a ridge of rocks, sand-banks, &c. with breakers.
Basse eau, low-water, the last of the ebb.
BASSES voiles, the courses, or principal lower sails, of a ship.
BASSIN, a basin or bason; also a small harbour within a larger one.
BASTARD de racage, the parrel-rope.
BASTARDE, the largest sail of a galley, which is only carried in fair weather and light winds.
BASTARDES, or Batardelles, square-sterned row-gallies.
BASTINGUAGE, painted quarter-cloths, or waist-cloths; also the quarter-nettings, &c.
BASTUDE, a peculiar sort of fishing-net.
BATAILLE navale, a general or particular sea fight.
BATARDEAU, a sort of dam.
BATAYOLLES, the quarter-stanchions, or the stanchions which support the rails of the waist and quarter.
BATAYOLETTES, small stanchions, used to sustain the awnings.
BATEAU, a general name for several kinds of boats; as
Bateau délesteur, a ballast-boat, or lighter.
Bateau pêcheur, a fishing-boat, &c.
BATELÉE, the lading, or number of passengers, to be carried in a boat.
BATELIERS, the boat-men, the wherry-men.
BATIMENT, a vessel or small ship of any kind.
BATON astronomique, Jacob’s staff; an instrument formerly used for taking altitudes at sea.
Baton à meche, a lint-stock. See Boute-feu.
Baton de flamme, the stick which spreads the inner part of a pendant.
Baton de giroüette, the spindle upon which the vane turns, at the mast-head.
Baton de justice, a cobbing-board.
Baton de pavillon, or d’enseigne, the flag-staff, or ensign-staff.
Baton de vadel, or de guispon, the handle of a long tar-brush, or pitch-mop.
BATONNÉE d’eau, the quantity of water thrown out by the pump at each stroke of the brake or handle.
BATTANT de pavillon, the fluttering or waving of an ensign, as it flies in the wind.
BATTERIE, the whole range of cannon placed on both sides of any one deck in a vessel of war,
Batterie & demie, a deck and a half of cannon; spoken of a frigate which carries cannon on her upper-deck and quarter-deck only.
Mettez la Batterie de hors, run the guns out.
Mettez la Batterie dedans, run in the guns.
BATTRE aux champs, to found a march or chase at sea.
Battre à Diane, to beat a reveille on the drum, as at day-break.
Battre la marche, to give the signal for sailing.
BATTU, weather-beaten, shattered by a storm, or disabled in battle.
BATTURE. See Basse.
BAU, abeam of the lower-decks.
Bau de dale, the hindermost or aftmost beam.
Bau de lof, the foremost beam in a ship.
Bau-maître, or Maître-Bau, the midship-beam, or the beam which is placed at the extreme breadth.
BAUX-faux, or Faux-Baux, beams of the orlop.