BAUDET, a sawyer’s frame, horse, or tresle.
BAUQUIERES, the clamps, or inner planks, by which the beams of a ship rest upon her sides.
BAYE, a bay, or bight.
BAYES, or Baies, d’un vaisseaux, the holes in the deck through which the masts are let down, called also the partners.
BEAUPRÉ, the bowsprit. Whence
Petit Beaupré, the jib-boom, or sprit-sail top-mast.
Beaupré sur pouppe, close behind; spoken of one ship which is so near to the stern of another, in chase or otherwise, that the bowsprit of the former hangs over the stern of the latter.
BEC de corbin, a caulker’s sharp iron, or instrument, with which he cuts the old oakum out of a seam.
BÉLANDRE, a small vessel, carrying about eighty tons, and usually navigated by three or four men. This is nowise like the English bilander.
BELLE, the main-deck, or waist. See Embelle.
BERCEAUX. See Bigot.
BERCHE. See Barces.
BERGE, a bold shore; also an artificial mound, or rampire, on the banks of a river, to prevent it from overflowing.
BERNE, a waft of the ensign.
Mettre le pavillon en Berne, to hoist the ensign with a waft.
BESSON, the arching or convexity of the beams and decks. See Tonture.
BESTION, the head, or ornamental figure, on the prow of a ship.
BIDON, or Canette, a cann.
BIGOTS, the ribs of a parrel. See Racage.
BIGUES, certain props, or shoars, let into the ports of a ship, to bear her up when she rests upon the ground; also the masts of a sheer-hulk.
BILLE, the beckets of the tacks and sheets.
BILLER, to fasten a rope to a boom, in order to ride or tow a boat.
BILLOTS, dead-wood, or short pieces of timber laid upon the keel, between the crotches, afore and abaft. See Contre-quille.
BISCUIT, biscuit, sea-bread.
BISE, vent de nord-nord-est, the north-north-east wind.
BISTORD, spun-yarn.
Bistord de trois fils, three-yarn spun-yarn.
BITTES, the bits. Whence
BITTER le cable, to bit the cable.
BITTON, a post fixed on a wharf, or pier, whereon to fasten a cable.
BITTONS, or Taquets, the top sail-sheet bits.
BITTURE, a range of the cable drawn upon the deck, ready for bitting.
BLEU, a temporary or acting officer, who performs the duty of another while sick or absent.
BLIN, a machine used to drive the wedges under a ship’s bottom, when she is to be launched.
BLOCQUER, or Bloquer. See Plocquer.
BOIS, wood or timber.
BOITE du gouvernail, the rudder-case, or the box placed above the rudder-head, upon deck, through which the tiller passes.
BOMBARDE, a bomb-vessel, a ketch.
BOMBÉ, incurvated; an epithet given by shipwrights to crooked timber, fit for knees, crotches, or standards.
BOMERIE, bottomry.
BON-FRAIS, a fresh of wind, or fresh gale.
BONNACE, calm weather, with a smooth sea.
BONNE de nage, swift of rowing, a fine rower.
Bonne-voglie, a volunteer-rower in the gallies.
BONNEAU, a buoy. See Bouée and Orin.
BONNETTE, the bonnet of a sail.
Bonnette lardée. a bag or basket charged with cinders, ashes, and chopped oakum, to be used in the act of Fothering, which see.
Lasser la Bonnette, to fasten the bonnet of a sail to its principal part.
BONNETTES, en étui, a general name for all studding-sails.
BON-TOUR, a favourable swing or turn; expressed of a ship when she keeps her hawse clear by winding the right way.
BORD, board, or aboard.
Renverser, tourner, changer le Bord, to veer or tack.
Rendre le Bord, to anchor, to come to an anchor.
Bord à bord, along-side; spoken of two ships lying near to each other.
Bord allongé, or qui allonge, a-long board; understood of a vessel plying to windward.
Bord à terre, Bord au large, standing in, or off, shore.
Bord de la mer, the sea-coast or shore.
Bord sur bord, tack for tack, hank for hank.
Faire un Bord, to make a tack.
Bon Bord, a good board.
Courir même Bord que l’ennemi, to stand on the same tack with the enemy.
BORDAGE, the planks of a ship’s side. Hence
Franc Bordage, the outside planks.
BORDAGES de fond, the planks of the bottom or floor.
Bordages pour recouvrir les ponts, the planks of the decks.
BORDAYER, to advance to windward by boards, or by tacking.
BORDE au vent, & Borde sous le vent, haul aft the sheets.
BORDÉE, a board or tack; also a watch of part of the crew.
Faire la grande Bordée, to set a watch of half the ship’s crew, when in any dangerous road, usually called the sea-watch.
Faire la petite Bordée, to set the quarter-watch.
Bordée de canon, all the guns on one side of a ship, usually called a broadside.
Envoyer une Bordée, donner la Bordée, to fire the broadside into an enemy.
BORDER, to plank a ship, or lay on her outside planks; also to stand towards, examine, or observe the motions of an enemy at sea.
Border & brasser au vent, to trim the sails by the wind.
Border à quein, to plank a ship with clench-work, or plank over plank.
Border en louvelle, to lay on the planks level, or with their surfaces even.
Border l’artimon, to haul the mizen-sheet flat aft, or close aft.
Border les avirons, to ship the oars ready for rowing.
Border les écoutes arrieres, to haul aft both sheets of a sail, for going afore the wind.
Border les écoutes tout plat, to tally the sheets flat aft.
Border un vaisseau, to board or enter a ship, either in a hostile or friendly manner.
Border une voile, to trim a sail by the tacks and sheets.
BORDIER, lap-sided; expressed of a ship stronger on one side than the other.
BORÉAL, vent Boreal, the northern wind.
BORNAGER, a method of shoving a great boat off from the shore, in a river, by fixing one end of the setting-pole against her side, whilst the other bears upon the ground.
BOSPHORE, a streight, or narrow channel; as the Thracian Bosphorus.
BOSSAGE, a name given by shipwrights to crooked timber, fit for knees, &c.
BOSSE, a powder-flask, used by privateers, in naval engagements.
Serre-Bosse, the shank-painter.
BOSSEMAN, second contre maître, the boatswain’s mate.
BOSSER l’ancre, to cat the anchor; also to stow the anchor. See Caponner.
Bosser le cable, to stopper the cable. From
BOSSES à aiguilettes, or à rubans, stoppers of the cable.
Bosses, stoppers of the shrouds or stays.
Bosses de chaloupe, or de canot, the boat’s painter or mooring-rope.
Bosse du bossoir, or de lout, the anchor-stoppers at the cat-head.
BOSSOIRS, the cat heads of a ship.
BOT, a boat, of several kinds. Whence
Paque-Bot, pacquet-boat, the packet, or packet-boat.
BOUCHE, the mouth of a river. Bouchaut is also sometimes used in this sense.
Bouche de canon, the bore or calibre of a piece of ordnance.
BOUCHIN, the extreme breadth of a ship, from outside to outside.
BOUCHON d’etoupe, de foin, ou de paille, the wad of a cannon, formed of oakum, hay, &c.
BOUCHOTS, a penn, or place enclosed by hurdles, for fishing on the sea-coast.
BOUCLE, shackles or bilboes.
Mettre un matelot sous Boucle, to confine a sailor, or put him in irons.
Un port Bouclé, a harbour which is land-locked.
BOUDINURE de l’arganeau, the puddening of the anchor. See Embodinure.
BOUÉE, a buoy.
Bouée de bout de mât, a wooden buoy, formed of an end of a mast.
Bouée de barril, a cann-buoy, or nun-buoy.
BOUGE, incurvated; spoken of a piece of timber; also of the rounding or convexity of the decks and beams. See Tonture.
BOUILLAR, a squall, a cloud charged with wind and rain.
BOUILLONEMENT, the rippling of a river, as it is discharged into the ocean.
BOULETS, balls or bullets of a cannon. Whence
Boulets rouge, red-hot bullets. Boulets à chaîne, chain-shot. Boulets à branches, or à deux têtes, bar or double-headed shot.
BOULIER, a sort of fishing-net.
BOULINE, the bowline. Bouline de la grand voile, the main bowline.
Bouline de revers, the lee bowline.
Faire courir la Bouline, to run the gauntlope.
BOULINER. See Aller à la bouline.
BOULINGUE, the royal-sail.
BOULINIER, a ship that sails close-hauled. Hence bon Boulinier signifies a ship that plies well to windward.
BOULON, an iron bolt. See Cheville.
Boulons d’afut, the bolts of the gun-carriages.
BOUQUE, an entrance or channel between islands or in narrow seas.
BOUQUETS, the fore-thwarts or fore-sheets of a boat.
BOURCER un voile, to carry a sail clewed up, or hauled up in the brails. See Carguer.
BOURCET, a name given to the fore-sail and fore-mast of small vessels in the English Channel.
BOURGEOIS, the proprietor or owner of a ship.
Bourgeois is also the person who bargains with a shipwright to build a ship, called the contractor or ship’s husband.
BOURGUIGNON, an island of ice.
BOURRASQUE, a violent squall of wind.
BOURRE, the wadding of a charge in artillery.
BOURRELET, or Bourlet, the puddenings of the yards.
Bourrelet de canon, the muzzle-ring of a piece of cannon.
BOURSE, or Bource, the exchange, or place of resort for merchants, mariners, &c. in a commercial sea-port.
BOUSSOLE, Compas de route, or Cadran de mer, the sea compass.
Boussole affolée, an erroneous or defective compass. See Affolée.
Boussole de cadran, an horizontal dial, with a magnetical needle.
BOUT de beaupré, a boom used for a bowsprit in small vessels.
Bout de corde, a rope’s end, a short piece of rope.
Bouts de cable, pieces of junk, or old cable.
Bouts de corde, a cat of nine tails, scourge, or rope’s end for punishment.
Bout de vergue, the yard-arm, but more particularly that part of it which reaches beyond the upper corners of its respective sail, to extend the reef.
BOUTE-DEHORS, the studding-sail booms: this name is also given to a small mast erected in the tops, to hoist up and fix the caps on the mast-heads.
Boute-dehors is likewise a boom to push off some ship which is near, or which approaches for any hostile purpose, as to board, &c.
Boute de lof, or Boute-lof, the bumkin, or boom of the fore tack.
Boute-feu, a lint-stock; also the name of an officer who is appointed to fire the cannon.
Boute-lof. See Boute de lof.
Boute le cable au cabestan & vire l’ancre, bring the cable to the capstern, or bring-to the cable, and heave to the anchor.
BOUTEILLES, the quarter-badges of a ship. See Balcon.
Bouteilles de callebasse, bundles of buoyant rushes, used in the exercise of learning to swim.
BOUTER, to bear off, to push, to join, &c.
Bouter à l’eau, to launch into the water, to put to sea.
Bouter au large, to stand out into the offing.
Bouter de lof, to haul the wind, to trim sharp.
BOUTES, large casks, which hold fresh water for the use of a sea-voyage.
BOUTEUX, or Bout de quevre, a sort of fishing rod.
BOUTONNER la bonette, to lash on the bonnets. See Bonnette.
BOUVET, a sort of plane used by shipwrights to form a small groove.
BOYE, See Bouée or Balise.
BOYER, a kind of Dutch sloop.
BRAGUE, the breeching of a cannon used at sea.
BRAI, pitch. Hence braier un vaisseau, to pay the seams of a ship with hot melted pitch, after they are caulked with oakum. It is sometimes mixed with other compositions, to nourish the timber, and is then called Brai gras.
BRANCHE de ciprès, beaconage; a small duty paid by shipping in France, for keeping the beacons in repair.
Branche superieure d’une courbe, the upper part of a knee.
Branche d’embas, the lower arm of a knee or standard.
BRANLE, a hammock.
Tendre les Branles, to sling the hammocks.
Branle bas, or fort Branle, the order to lash and take down all the hammocks between decks, in order to prepare for engagement, or otherwise to clear the ship.
BRAS, the brace of a yard.
Tenir un Bras, to haul in and fasten the brace.
Bon Bras, braced to a large wind, braced in.
Bras de revers, the lee brace.
Bras, or Branches d’ancre, the anchor-arms.
BRASSE, a fathom, or measure of six feet.
BRASSEIAGE, the quarters of a yard.
Brasser à faire porter, or à faire servir to fill the sails after they have been braced a back.
Brasser au vent, to brace the sails in, to haul in the weather braces.
Brasser les voiles sur le mât, to brace the sails a-back, or lay the sails to the mast. This is also called Brasser à contre. See Coeffer.
Brasser sous le vent, to brace to leeward, to brace up.
BRAYES, the tarred canvas coats of the mast.
BREDINDIN, a small stay-tackle, or burton, affixed to the main-stay.
BREF, a sort of warrant or commission from the state, allowing a ship to purchase provisions, conducting her safe on the coast, and exempting her from other duties.
BREGIN, a sort of fishing-net, with very small meshes, used in the Mediterranean.
BREQUIN, or Ville-Brequin, a shipwright’s wimble to bore wood.
BRESSIN, the jears or haliards of a yard or sail; also a tackle-hook. See Palan.
BREVET, Connoissement, Police de chargement, a bill of lading.
Brevet d’officier, the commission or warrant of an officer.
BREUILLER. See Carguer.
BREUILS. See Cargues, Martinets, and Garcettes.
BRIDER l´ancre, to bridle the anchor[59].
BRIEUX, a term used in Brittany to express the salutation of striking the flag, or topsails, to an admiral, &c. Also a duty paid for entering a harbour.
BRIGANTIN, a small light vessel, navigated by oars and sails; but differing extremely from the vessel known in England by the name of brig or brigantine.
BRIMBALE, the brake or handle of a ship’s pump.
BRION, the fore-foot, placed at the extremity of the keel forward.
BRIS, a duty formerly paid to the lord of the coast, by those who suffered shipwreck thereon. This unjust exaction is now totally abolished. See Debris.
BRISANT, or Brisans, a shelf or ridge of rocks nearly level with the surface of the water, and distinguished by the breakers, or waves that burst over it; also the breakers themselves.
BRISE, a fresh gale or breeze; the trade-winds, or sea-breezes between the tropics.
Brise carabinée, a violent wind or squall.
BRISER, to split, or dash forcibly against a rock or shelf; expressed of a ship when she is stranded.
BRISES, the land-winds which blow during the night in the West Indies, &c.
BROCHETER, to give the scantlings of the several members or pieces of a ship’s frame.
BROU, the bark of the cocoa, of which the Indians form the cordage used in their shipping,
BRUINE, small drizzling rain.
BRULOT, a fire ship.
BRUME, a mist or fog at sea.
Tems Embrumé, or couvert de brouillard, thick misty weather.
BUCENTAURE, a sort of galley used by the state of Venice, when the doge performs the annual ceremony of espousing the sea.
BUCHE, a herring-buss, or small fly-boat used in the herring-fishery.
BULLETIN, a certificate given to sea-officers and sailors, when they are registered in a port, to testify their qualities, age, privileges, and time of service.
BURINS. See Tappes.
BUTIN, the pillage or plunder of a prize taken from an enemy.
CABANE, a flat-bottomed passage-boat, with a deck, navigated on the river Loire.
CABANES, the cabins or apartments wherein the officers and sailors sleep or mess aboard a ship. See Teugue.
CABESTAN, the capstern or crab of a ship.
Virer au Cabestan, to heave the capstern round with bars.
CABILLOT, a toggel; also a wooden pin for belaying ropes.
CABLE, the cable; also a measure of 120 fathoms, called by the English seamen a cable’s length.
Cable à pic, the situation of the cable when the ship is close a-peek on her anchor.
Cable de touei, a stream-cable, or large hauser.
Cable tourné, or qui à un tour, or demi-tour, a foul hause, a cross or elbow in the hause.
Bitter le Cable, to bit the cable, or clap it on the bits. See Bitter.
Couper, or tailler le Cable, to cut the cable in the hause.
Donner le Cable à un vaisseau, to give a cable’s end to another ship; to take a ship in tow at sea.
Filer du Cable, to slack out or veer away the cable. See Filer.
Laisser trainer un Cable sur le sillage du vaisseau, to drag a cable in the ship’s wake in order to prevent her sailing swiftly, when she is chased by a vessel of inferior force, which is decoyed by this stratagem within reach of her cannon.
Lover un Cable, to coil a cable.
CABLEAU, the painter, or mooring-rope of a boat.
CABLER, to make large ropes or cables.
CABOTAGE, the art of a coasting-pilot; as the knowledge of the shore, the tides, ports, rivers, capes, soundings, &c. on any particular coast.
CABOTER, to coast, or sail along the shore between cape and cape.
CABOTIERE, a large flat-bottomed lighter, with a long rudder.
CABRE, sheers, a machine resembling the sheers of a ship, used to heave up pieces of timber on the wharf of a river.
CABRIONS, certain wedges fixed under the train of a gun-carriage, to secure the cannon when the sea is very high.
CADENE, a chain by which a galley-slave is confined to his oar.
CADENES de hauban, the chains of the shrouds, the chain-plates.
CADRE, a bed frame, resembling the frame of a cott, wherein the sea-officers sleep: these are usually bottomed with small cords by the French, and slung by the corners without a cott.
CAGE. See Hune.
CAGOUILLE, a sort of volute or ornament on the extremity of the prow of polacres, xebecs, tartans, &c.
CAIC, the yawl or skiff of a galley; also a small Polish vessel, navigated in the Black Sea.
CAIES, a ridge of rocks, or sand-banks; called in the West indies, keys.
CAILLEBOTIS, the gratings of the hatches.
CAJOLER, to ply to windward with the tide, to work by short tacks.
CAISSE de poulie. See Arcasse and Mouffle.
CAJUTES, the cabins which are ranged along the inside of a ship, to sleep in.
CALANGE, or Cale, a small harbour behind a hill, or rising ground, on the sea-coast.
CALCETS, the cheeks or hounds of the mast, which support the brazen blocks in a galley.
CALE, the hold of a ship; also a sloping or shelving on the sea-coast; likewise the lead of a fishing-line used to sink the bait.
Donner la Cale, to duck or plunge an offender from the yard-arm into the sea, by way of punishment.
Donner la grand Cale, to keel-haul; a punishment peculiar to the Dutch.
CALE-BAS, a down-haul, or down-haul tackle.
CALE-HAUBAN, a breast back-stay for the top-mast or top-gallant-mast.
CALER, to sink down in the water; also to founder at sea.
Caler les voiles. See Amener.
Caler also signifies to quoin or wedge up any thing.
CALE-TOUT, let go amain, or at once.
CALFAS, or rather Calfat, caulking.
CALFAT, or Calfateur, a caulker.
Calfat also signifies a caulking-iron. Calfat double, a making-iron.
CALFATER, to caulk a ship or boat.
CALFATIN, a caulker’s boy, who spins or twists his oakum.
CALIBRE, the bore of a cannon or other fire-arm, or the diameter of a cannon-ball.
Calibre de vaisseau, the model of a ship.
CALIORNE, a winding-tackle; a tackle formed by a rope passing through two three-fold blocks.
CALME, calm, a cessation of wind.
Calme tout plat, a dead calm, or a flat calm. Whence
CALMER, to become calm.
CAMBRER, to bend the planks or boards of a ship to their proper curve, by stoves, &c.
CAMPAGNE sur mer, a voyage, a cruise at sea for a season, or limited space of time.
CANAL, a canal, streight, or channel.
Canal de l’étrave, the concavity in the top of the stem, wherein the bowsprit rests.
Canal, or Creux autour d’un poulie, the hole in a block between the shell and the sheave, through which the rope passes.
CANDELETTE, or Bosse de bossoir, the cat tackle and hook. See Capion.
CANEFAS, or Canevas, canvas or sail-cloth. See Toile.
CANON, a cannon or piece of ordnance.
Canon à la serre, a gun housed athwart, with the top of its muzzle bearing against the upper edge of the port.
Canon alongé contre le bord, a gun housed lengthways, close to the ship’s side, abreast of its own port.
Canon aux sabords, a gun levelled to the point-blank range.
Canon de coursier, the bow-chase of a row-galley.
Canon demare, a cannon drawn in to be charged.
Canon détape, a cannon with its tompion taken out.
Canon moindre, a cannon whose calibre is not proportioned to the thickness of the metal.
Canon renforcé, a cannon whose breech is reinforced, i. e. thicker than the calibre, which is the usual dimension.
CANONNER, to cannonade, to fire a broadside.
CANONNIER de vaisseau, the gunner of a ship.
Second maître Canonnier, the gunner’s mate.
CANONNIERS, the quarter-gunners or artillery-men of a ship.
CANOT, a ship’s boat, cutter, or yawl.
Canot de bois, a canoe.
Canot jaloux, a crank boat.
CANOTS, Indian canoes of various kinds.
CANTANETTES, the light-ports in the stern of a galley.
CANTIBAI, a name given by shipwrights to timber which is full of cracks, &c.
CANTIMORON. See Catimoron.
CAP, the head or prow of a ship.
Porter le Cap sur l’ennemi, to bear towards the enemy.
Ou as-tu le Cap? how is the head? how does the ship wind?
Cap, a cape, head-land, or promontory.
Doubler le Cap, to double, or sail round, a cape.
Cap de more. See Chouquet.
Cap de mouton, the dead-eye of a shroud or stay.
Cap de mouton à croc, an iron-bound dead-eye, with a hook.
Cap de mouton de martinet, the dead-eye of a crow-foot. See Trelingage.
CAPACITÉ d’un vaisseau, the burthen of a ship.
CAPE, or Grand Pacfi, the mainsail.
Etre à la Cape, to lie-by under the main-sail, or some other of the courses.
CAPÉER, Capier, or Capeyer, aller à la cape, mettre le vaisseau à la cape, to lie under the mainsail when all the other sails are furled.
CAPELER les haubans, to fix the shrouds on the mast-head.
CAPION, the stern-post of a galley. See Rode.
Capion de proue, the stem of a galley.
Capion à capion, from stem to stern.
CAPITAINE d’un vaisseau de guerre, the captain of a ship of war.
Capitaine d’armes, a captain of marines.
Capitaine de frégate legére, de brulot, de galiote, a master and commander.
Capitaine du hautbord, the captain of a ship of the line.
Capitaine de ports, the commandant of a detachment of marines, appointed to guard a dock-yard, and the shipping in the harbour.
Capitaine des matelots, an officer resembling our captain of the fore-castle.
Capitaine en second, the second captain, or first lieutenant, of a ship of war.
Capitaine garde-côte, a captain of the militia appointed to guard the coasts.
CAPITANE, or Capitainesse, a name formerly given to the principal galley of France.
CAPLANIER, a cod-fisher, a vessel appointed to fish and cure cod; also the men employed in this service.
CAPON, the cat-tackle.
CAPONNE, the order to cat the anchor.
CAPONNER l’ancre, to cat or draw up the anchor to the cat-head.
CAPOSER, to bring a ship to, with her helm a-lee.
Faire CAPOT, to cant, over-set, or turn topsy-turvy.
CAPRE, a vessel of war, or armed ship.
CAQUE de poudre, a powder-cask; also a herring-barrel, whence
CAQUEURS, sailors appointed to cure and barrel the herring.
CARACORE, an Indian vessel, peculiar to the island of Borneo.
CARAMOUSSAL, or Caramoussail, a merchant-ship of Turky, constructed with a very high stern.
CARAQUE, a name given by the Portuguese to ships employed in the Brazil and the East Indian trade.
CARAVELLE, a small square-sterned Portuguese vessel, navigated with lateen sails; and esteemed very expeditious, and therefore used in business that requires dispatch.
CARCASSE, the carcase or ribs of a ship before the planks are laid on, or after they are ripped off.
CARENAGE, a careening wharf.
CARENE, the outside of a ship’s bottom. This word is sometimes used for the keel.
Carene entier, to heave down a ship keel-out.
Demie Carene, a parliament-heel, or boot-topping.
CARENER, donner la carene à un vaisseau, to careen or heave down a ship with careening tackles to a wharf or pontoon.
CARGADOR, the person who procures a freight or voyage for a merchant-ship.
CARGAISON, the cargo, or articles of a ship’s lading.
CARGUE à veu, a slab-line.
CARGUER, to clue up a sail, or haul it up in the brails.
Carguer l’artimon, to brail up the mizen.
Carguer le point de la voile qui est sous le vent, to haul up the lee-clue-garnet, or goose-wing of a sail.
CARGUES, a general name for the brails of a sail, comprehending the clue-lines, bunt-lines, leech-lines, &c.
Cargues d’artimon, the brails of the mizen.
Mettre les basses voiles sur les Cargues, to haul up the courses, or haul the courses up in the brails.
Mettre les huniers sur les Cargues, to clue up the top-sails.
Cargues bouline, the leech-lines.
Cargues de fond, the bunt-lines.
Cargues de hune. See Retraite de hune.
Cargues dessous le vent, the lee-brails, &c.
Cargues du vent, the brails to windward, or weather-brails.
Cargues point, the clue-garnets, or clue-lines.
CARGUEUR, the top-block of a top-gallant-mast.
CARLINGUE, contre-quille, the kelson.
Carlingue de cabestan, the step of the capstern.
Carlingue de pied de mât, the step of the mast, with its block.
CARNAU, the lateen fore-sail of a settee or polacre.
CARREAU. See Lisse de platbord.
CARTAHU, girt-line, or gurt-line.
CARTE marine, a chart or map of the sea, representing its banks, rocks, shoals, bays, havens, &c.
Carte plate, or au point commun, the plain chart.
CARTON, a book containing a collection of charts in folio.
CARTOUCHE, a cartridge to contain a charge of powder for a cannon or other fire-arm.
CATARACTES, water-falls.
CATIMARON, a catamaran, or Indian raft.
CATURS, armed vessels of Bantam.
CAYES, keys, or chains of rocks, nearly even with the surface of the sea.
CEDRE, bois de Cedre, cedar-wood, which is excellent for ship-building.
CEINTES, a name formerly given to the wales. See Perceintes and Lisses.
CENTRE de pesanteur, the center of gravity.
CERCLE d’étambraie, or de cabestan, an iron hoop that lines the hole of the deck, within which the capstern turns upon its spindle.
CERCLES de boute-hors, the studding-sail boom-irons.
Cercles de hune, the top-rails, which formerly surrounded the tops, when circular.
Cercles de pompe, the iron hoops fixed on the top of the pump, to strengthen it.
CHABLEAU, a tow-line, a large warp.
CHABLEUR, a water-officer, who has the care of the wherries.
CHAINES de chaudiere, the chains of the copper, or kettle, which boils victuals in the cobose, for the ship’s crew.
Chaînes de port, the boom or chain of a harbour. See Barre.
Chaînes de vergues, the top-chains.
CHALAND, or Bac, a sort of lighter used on the Loire.
CHALINGUE, a light high-built Indian vessel, formed without nails.
CHANDELIER de fanal, the iron brace, or crank, with its stool, which supports the poop-lanthorn.
Chandelier de pierrier, the iron crutch of a swivel gun; also the wooden stock, hooped with iron, in whose socket it rests, and is turned.
CHANDELIERS de chaloupe, the crutches of a boat, which sustain the main-boom, or the mast and sail, when they are lowered, for the conveniency of rowing.
Chandeliers d’écbelle, the stancheons which support the entering ropes at the gangway.
Chandeliers de lisses, the iron crutches, or double stanchions, of the quarters, &c. fixed in a vessel of war, to extend the double nettings. See Filaret.
Chandeliers, de petite batiments, the crutches on the stern or quarter of a boom-sail vessel. See Chandeliers de chaloupe.
CHANGER, in a naval sense, generally implies to tack, shift, or relieve.
Changer de bord, to tack or veer. See Virer de bord.
Changer l’artimon, to shift over the mizen to the other side.
Changer le quart, to change or relieve the watch.
Changer les voiles, to shift the sails, to brace about, to jibe.
Changer les voiles d’avant, & les mettre sur le mât, to brace the head-sails to the wind, to lay the head-sails to the mast.
CHANTIER, the stocks upon which a ship is laid down to be built.
Chantier, or Attelier, also signifies a shipwright’s yard or wharf.
CHANVRE, hemp employed to make the sails and cordage of a ship.
CHAPE, the inner box of a sea-compass.
CHAPEAU de maître, a gratuity or due, required by the master of a ship for each ton of goods which his vessel carries.
CHAPELLE, the chapelling of a ship, or suffering her to be taken aback, so that she cannot recover her course till she has gone quite round. This seldom happens, unless when the vessel is close-hauled in light winds, and is usually occasioned by the negligence of the steersman.
Faire, or prendre Chapelle, to build a chapel at sea, or chapel a ship.
CHARGE, the cargo, burthen, or lading of a ship. This is also called chargement.
Etre Chargé â la côte, to be upon, or near a lee-shore.
CHARGEOIR, or lanterne à charger, a gunner’s ladle.
CHARGER, to load a ship, or take in her cargo.
Charger en grenier, to load a ship in bulk.
Charger la pompe, to fetch the pump.
CHARGEUR-MARCHAND, or Marchand-chargeur, the merchant who loads a ship, or freights her to convey a cargo to some distant place.
CHARNIER, a scuttled cask, to contain water for the ship’s crew to drink on the deck.
CHAROI. See Charroi.
CHARPENTIER de navire, a shipwright; also the carpenter of a ship.
CHARTE-PARTIE, a charter-party, or compact made between the owner of a ship and the merchant, or contractor, who hires her for a limited time; also a convention made by a company of merchants who trade together.
CHASSE, a chase at sea, or flight of one vessel from another who pursues her.
Prendre Chasse, to stand away from, to fly from.
Donner Chasse, or Chasser, to give chase, to pursue.
Soutenir Chasse, to make a running fight, to fight in retreat.
Chasse de proue, the head-chase, or bow-chase. See Piece de chasse.
CHASSER sur son ancre, to drag the anchor, to bring the anchor home.
CHAT, a cat; a ship so called.
CHATEAU, a general name for the fore-castle and quarter-deck of a deep-waisted vessel.