Chapter L: L, the deck-transom (6)

COMPAGNE, the cabin of the steward of a row-galley.

COMPAGNIE _de navires_, or CONSERVE, a convoy or fleet of vessels.

COMPAGNONS, a general name for sailors, mariners, or whoever forms a
part of a ship’s crew.

COMPAS _azimutal_, an azimuth-compass.

COMPAS, _de carte_, or COMPAS _marin_, a pair of compasses, or
dividers, used to prick a chart, or discover courses and distances
thereon.

COMPAS _de route_, or _de mer_, a common sea-compass.

COMPAS _de variation_, an amplitude-compass.

COMPAS _mort_, a compass whose needle has lost its magnetical virtue.

COMPAS _renversé_, a swinging compass whose face is downwards; it is
usually hung over-head in the great cabin, to shew the ship’s course
to the captain.

COMPASSER. See POINTER _la carte_.

COMPOST, a tide-duty, or revenue; arising from shipping.

CONFLUENT, the place where two rivers are united.

CONGÉ, a pass, or permission, granted to the master of a
merchant-ship, by the office of admiralty, when he is ready to sail.

CONNOISSANCE, the skill and intelligence of a pilot; also a prospect
of the land and sea-coasts.

CONNOISSEMENT, a ship´s bill of lading, or the manifest of her cargo.

CONSEIL _de construction_, a council held in any of the king’s ports,
consisting of the _intendant_ (or commissioner), _le commissaire
général_, and the principal officers, for the construction or
repairing of ships of war. These last are usually styled the
builders, and sometimes _les charpentiers-constructeurs_, the
shipwrights.

CONSEIL _de guerre_, a council of war.

CONSEIL _de l’amirauté_ a jurisdiction exercised under the name and
authority of the lord-admiral, who has certain claims called the
dues of the admiralty. The officers of the admiralty have their
patents from the king, but they are nominated by the lord-admiral.
The admiralty of France consists of a lieutenant-general, who is
president, a _lieutenant particulier_, three counsellors, an
advocate, and a royal proctor; of a register in chief, and two
serjeants or bailiffs.

CONSEIL _de marine_, a secret council held by the king and his
ministers, to which he usually summons the princes and the chief
officers of his fleet, to deliberate with them about the affairs of
naval war.

CONSERVE, a fleet or convoy of ships, associated for their mutual
defence and safety. See COMPAGNIE.

CONSOLE, a bracket, or part where two pieces of timber are united by a
bracket.

CONSOMMATION, the consumption of a ship during a sea-voyage,
comprehending whatever has been expended, as cordage, canvas,
ammunition, &c.

CONSTRUCTION _des vaisseaux_, the art of ship-building, or the
practical part of naval architecture.

CONSUL, a consul established in foreign parts, for the protection of
the commerce of his country.

CONTINENT, a continent, or vast tract of land.

CONTRAT _à la grosse_. See BOMERIE.

CONTRE-AMIRAL, the rear-admiral of France.

CONTRE-BANDE, prohibited goods.

CONTRE-BITTES, the standards which support the cable-bits.

CONTRE-BRASSER, to brace about the yards.

CONTRE-CAPION _de pouppe_, the upper part of the salse=post of a
row-galley, which is a crooked piece of timber placed on the
fore-side of the stern-post to support it. See CONTRE-RODE _de
pouppe_.

CONTRE-CAPION _de proue_, the upper part of the stemson of a galley.
See CONTRE-RODE _de proue_.

CONTRE-CARENE, the kelson of a galley. See CARLINGUE.

CONTRE-ÉTAMBOT, the knee of the stern-post, by which it is attached to
the keel.

CONTRE-ÉTAMBOT, or FAUX-ÉTAMBOT, is also the false stern-post.

CONTRE-ÉTRAVE, the apron; a piece of timber which supports the scarf
of the stem.

CONTRE-MAITRE, the boatswain of a ship.

CONTRE-MARCHE, the general tacking of a division of ships, arranged on
the same line, so as to preserve the line in its former disposition
on the other tack.

CONTRE-MARÉE, a spring-tide.

CONTRE-QUILLE, the dead-wood placed on the keel fore and aft. See
FAUSSE-QUILLE.

CONTRE-RODE _de pouppe_, the lower part of the false-post, or
counter-stern-post of a row-galley. See CONTRE-CAPION _de pouppe_.

CONTRE-RODE _de proue_, the lower part of the stemson of a galley. See
CONTRE-CAPION _de proue_.

CONTRE-SABORDS. See MANTELETS.

CONTRE-SALUT, the return of a salute at Sea.

CONTROLEUR _de la marine_, an officer of the marine, who attends and
controuls all the purchases and sales held in a royal dock-yard,
assists at the general musters, reviews the artificers, and keeps a
register of their names.

CONVERSO, the waist, or main-deck, of a ship.

CONVOI, the convoy or escort of ships of war, used to guard a fleet of
merchantmen.

CONVOYER, to convoy or accompany a fleet of merchant-men as their
escort.

COQ, the cook of a ship.

COQUE, a kink, or round twist, in a new rope.

COQUERON, the cook-room, fore-castle, or cuddy, of a lighter or hoy.

COQUET, a cock-boat, a sort of small boat which passes between
Normandy and Paris.

COQUETER, to navigate or manage a boat by paddling, or rowing in the
boat’s stern with a paddle.

CORADOUX. See COURADOUX.

CORALINE, a light small long-boat, or lanch, employed in the Levant,
to fish coral.

CORBEAU, a sort of sheer-hook or fire-grappling.

CORBEILLON, or CORBILLON, a small kid, or tub, to contain the biscuit
or sea-bread daily distributed to the several messes.

CORDAGE, cordage, a general name for all the ropes employed to rig or
work a ship: the cables, or ground-tackling, are sometimes
comprehended in this term. See CABLE, MANOEUVRES.

CORDAGE _blanc_, white, or untarred cordage.

CORDAGE _étuvé_, cordage which has passed through a stove, to
discharge its moisture or watery humour.

CORDAGE _goudronné_, tarred cordage.

CORDAGE _raque_, or _raqué_, cordage which has been well rubbed, in
order to take off the hulks, straw, or roughness of the hemp from
the surface.

CORDAGE _refait_, twice-laid cordage.

CORDAGES _de rechange_, spare-ropes, spare-cordage.

CORDE, a rope of any kind.

CORDE _de retenue_, a guy, used to steady a heavy bale, cask, &c. when
hoisted into a ship.

CORDE _de retenue_ is also pendant of a relieving tackle, employed to
prevent a ship from over-setting, or falling down more than is
necessary in the careen; and to right her, or pull her upright, when
the careen is finished. See ATTRAPE.

CORDE _de retenue_ likewise implies a stern-fast, or large rope used
to ease a ship gradually off the stocks, or to prevent her from
launching too quick. This is meant of vessels launched head
foremost, a method never practised in England.

CORDES _de défense_, fenders of junk or old cable.

CORDELLE, a warp or tow-line.

CORDERIE, a ropery or rope-walk, the rope-yard of a dock.

CORDIER, a rope-maker, or roper.

CORDON, a strand of rope-yarns. See TORON.

CORNE _de vergue_, the crutch or cheeks at the inner end of a gaff, or
boom which embraces and slides along the mast of a small vessel, as
the sail is hoisted or lowered.

CORNET _de mât_, a step and partners peculiar to the masts of some
small vessels, being open at the after-part, so that the mast may
occasionally be lowered over the stern. See CARLINGUE.

CORNETTE, a broad pendant, displayed at the mast-head of a commodore.

CORPS _de bataille_, the center division of a fleet of ships of war.

CORPS _de garde d’un vaisseau_, the half-deck; that part of a ship
which is under the quarter-deck and before the bulk-head of the
steerage.

CORPS _de pompe_, the chamber of a pump.

CORPS _d’un vaisseau_, the hull of a ship, without her rigging.

CORRECTIONS, the methods of correcting the errors of a dead reckoning,
by observations and allowances, as prescribed by the rules of
navigation.

CORSAIRE, a privateer, also a pirate.

CORVETTE, a sloop of war.

COSSE, a thimble; also a bull’s eye, or traveller. See MARGOUILLET.

COTE, the sea-coast, the shore.

CÔTE _en écore_, a bluff or bold shore.

CÔTE _qui court nord-sud ou est-ouest_, a coast which lies north and
south, or east and west.

CÔTE _saine_, a safe coast, where there is neither rocks or
sand-banks, that may render the access dangerous to shipping.

_Donner à la_ CÔTE, _ranger la_ CÔTE. See DONNER and RANGER.

CÔTÉ _du vaisseau_, the side of a ship.

_Presenter le_ CÔTÉ, _mettre le_ CÔTÉ, _du vaisseau en travers_, to
bring the broad-side to bear upon. See EFFACER.

_Mettre un vaisseau sur le_ CÔTÉ, to lay a ship on the careen. See
ABATTRE.

_Faux_-CÔTÉ, lap-sided.

CÔTÉ _du vent_, the weather-side, to windward.

CÔTÉ _sous le vent_, to leeward, the lee-side.

COTES, or MEMBRES, _d’un vaisseau_, the timbers, or ribs of a ship,
from the keel, upwards.

COTIER, a coaster, or coasting vessel.

COTONNINE, a species of thick sail-cloth, used in galleys and vessels
of the Levant: it is formed by a mixture of hemp and cotton, the
woof being of the former, and the warp of the latter.

COTONS, fishes of the mast. See JUMELLE.

COTTIMO, a duty or exaction of so much per cent. which the consuls, by
order of their courts, or by the consent of merchants, demand of the
shipping of their nation, when they enter a port where such consuls
are established.

COUBAIS, a barge or galley of Japan, greatly ornamented, and rowed
with forty oars.

COUCHE, the pillow of a stay, or the piece of wood upon which it
rests.

COUDRAN, a mixture of tar and some other ingredients, used to prevent
ropes from rotting. See GOUDRON.

COUETS, the tacks of the main-sail and fore-sail. See AMURER.

COUETS _à queue de rat_, tacks which taper to the point.

COUILLARD, an old term signifying the clue of a sail.

COULADOUX, shroud-tackles, which are used in the galleys, and some
other vessels of the Mediterranean, in the place of dead-eyes and
laniards.

COULANTES, or COURANTES, the running rigging. See MANOEUVRES
_courantes_.

COULÉE, that part of a ship’s bottom which lies between the
floor-heads and the keel, which is somewhat concave on the outside.

COULER _à fond_, to sink at sea. See also SANCER.

COULER _bas d’eau_, to sink deeper in the water; expressed of a ship
when her leaks gain upon the pump, or when she receives more water
than the pumps can discharge.

COULOIRS, certain gangways fixed on the sides of undecked vessels;
also the grating-gangways on the sides of such vessels as have their
decks arched very high in the middle, as xebecks, &c.

COULOIRS likewise imports the passages that lead to the several cabins
or store-rooms of a ship.

COUP _d’assurance_, a gun fired by a ship on her entrance into a port,
when she displays her colours, as a sign of peace. See ASSURANCE.

COUP _de gouvernail_, the whole force of the helm.

COUP _de mer_, the shock of a wave of the sea, striking a ship
violently, and rushing over her deck.

COUP _de partance_, a farewel-gun, a gun fired as signal for sailing.

COUP _de vent_, a sudden squall or gust of wind.

COUPS _de canon à l’eau_, shot received under water, or between wind
and water.

COUPS _de canon en bois_, shot received in the upper works of a ship.

COUPER _la lame_, to cut the sea, to divide the waves.

COUPER _le cable, ou le mâts_, to cut the cable, or cut away the
masts.

COUPER, _l’ennemi_, to thwart or cross the enemy’s course, in giving
chase to him.

COUPLE _de haubans_, a pair of shrouds.

COUPLE _du lof_, or _du balancement_, the loof-frame or loof-timbers.

COUPLES, the timbers of a ship, or the frames. See GABARI.

COURADOUX, between decks, the space between any two decks of a ship;
also the place where the soldiers sleep in a galley. See ENTRE-PONT.

COURANT, a current or stream at sea.

COURBATONS, small knees used, in the upper part of a ship, for the
same purposes as the _courbes_ are, in the lower parts.

COURATONS _de l’éperon_. See HERPES _de poulains_ and MONTANS.

COURBE _capucine_, the standard which fastens the cut-water to the
stem.

COURBES, a general name for the larger knees of a ship.

COURBES _d’arcasse_, the transom-knees, or sleepers.

COURBES _de bittes_, the knees of the cable-bits. See CONTRE-BITTES.

COURBES _d’écubier_, the cheeks of the head. See JOTTEREAUX.

COURBES _d’équerre_, or _à fausse équerre_, knees which are
right-angular, and knees which are within, or without a square.

COURCIVE, or COURCITE, a half-deck, formed in a vessel which is not
wholly decked.

COUREAU, a small yawl of the Garonne.

COURÉE, COUROI, or COURET, a composition, or stuff, used to pay a
ship’s bottom at the time of docking or breaming.

COURIR, imports in general, to sail, to run at sea, to stand onward.

COURIR _à l’autre bord_, to stand upon the other tack.

COURIR _au large_, to stand off. See TIRER _à la mer_.

COURIR _au plus près_, to run close upon a wind.

COURIR _en latitude_, to run down latitude.

COURIR _en longitude_, to run down longitude.

COURIR _la bouline_, to run the gauntlope.

COURIR _la mer_, to infest or scour the sea; to cruise up and down
therein.

COURIR _le bon bord_, to make a lucky cruise; a cant phrase peculiar
to cruisers or pirates, and alluding to the capture or plunder of
merchant-ships.

COURIR _même bord_, to stand upon the same tack as some other ship in
sight.

COURIR _nord, sud, &c._ to stand to the northward, southward, &c.

COURIR _sur la terre_, to stand in shore, or on shore.

COURIR _sur un vaisseau_, to chase or pursue a ship.

COURIR _sur son ancre_, to run over, or foul of, the anchor.

COURIR _terre à terre_. See RANGER _la côte_.

COURIR _une bordée_, or _bord sur bord_. See LOUVIER.

COURONNEMENT, the after-part of a ship’s taffarel, which is usually
ornamented with sculpture.

COURROI. See COURÉE.

COURS, or COURSE, a cruise at sea. Hence _faire_ COURS, to go upon a
cruise.

COURS _du vaisseau_, the course or run of a ship; also the wake, or
track marked on the surface of the water behind her.

COURSIER, a bow-chase, or great brass cannon in the head of a
row-galley.

COURSIER, or COURSIE, a fore-and-aft passage between the banks of a
row-galley, where the _comite_, or boatswain walks, to see that the
slaves manage their oars and row with application.

COURSSIERE, a spar-deck, or grating-deck, reaching from the
quarter-deck to the fore-castle.

COURTAGE, a tax or duty levied on all merchandises which pass by sea
from one port to another.

COURVETTE. See CORVETTE.

COUSSIN _de beaupré_, the pillow of the bowsprit.

COUSSIN _de bittes_, the fir lining or doubling of the bits. See
CHEVET.

COUSSIN _de canon_, the bed of a cannon which supports the breech.

COUSSINS, the mats of the top-rims, used to prevent the top-sails from
being fretted by striking the edges of the tops.

COUSSINS _d’amures_, the mats nailed by the chess-tree, to prevent the
clue of the main-sail from being galled when the tack is aboard.

COUSTIERES, the shrouds of a galley, which are usually formed of
runners and tackles. See COULADOUX.

COUT _d’assurance_. See PRIME _assurance_.

COUTELAS. See BONNETTES _en étui_.

COUTURE, a seam between the planks of the deck or side of a ship.

COUTURE _de ceuille de voiles_, the seam of a sail.

COUTURE _ouverte_, an open seam, or one from which the oakum has been
expelled by the straining of the ship, &c.

COUVERTE, the deck of a ship, in the dialect of Provence.

COUVERTE _de l’iscosele de proue_, the fore castle, or fore-deck, of a
galley, together with the space beneath it, where the cannon are
planted.

COUVERTURES _de fanaux_, a sort of tubs to cover the top and
poop-lanthorns, to preserve them when they are not in use.

CRAIE, a small Swedish ship, without top-masts or top-sails.

CRAMPE, a cramp-iron, or hook of a block.

CRAQUER, to crack or strain; expressed of a ship that labours greatly
in a turbulent sea.

CRAVAN, a barnicle, or small shell-fish, of a disagreeable taste,
which fastens to a ship’s bottom in a long voyage.

CREUX, the depth of the hold from the lower-deck beams to the floor.

CREUX _d’une voile_, the belly or cavity of a sail, which retains the
wind.

CRIBLÉ, pierced with holes; expressed of a ship that has been much
damaged by worms or cannon-shot.

_Une voile_ CRIBLÉE, a sail much damaged by shot.

CRIQUE, a creek, or small natural harbour.

CROC, a boat-hook, or setting pole.

CROC _de candelette_, the cat-hook. See CAPON.

CROC _de pompe_, the pump hook.

CROCS _de palans_, the tackle-hooks.

CROCS _de palans de canons_, the hooks of the gun-tackles.

CROCS _de palanquins_, jigger-tackle-hooks.

CROCHETS _d’armes_, certain crutches, or hooks, to support the
small-arms in the cabins of a ship of war.

CROCHETS _de retraite_, the eye-bolts, in the train of a gun-carriage,
wherein are hooked the relieving-tackles.

CROISÉE _de l’ancre_, the cross of the anchor, or the part where the
shank terminates at the arms.

CROISER, to cruise in any particular station.

CROISER _à la lame_. See DE BOUT _à la lame_.

CROISETTE, the pin or bolt used as a fid to any flag-staff.

CROISEUR, a cruiser, a vessel employed to guard a coast; also a
pirate, or sea rover.

CROISEURS, or _vaisseaux en croisiere_, ships cruising in an appointed
station or latitude.

CROISIERE, a rendezvous or latitude for cruisers.

CROITRE, to rise or flow; expressed of the tide.

CROIX _sur les cables_, a cross in the hawse.

CRONE, a wheel-crane, built on a wharf.

CROQUER, to hook or grapple any thing.

CROQUER _le croc de palan_, to hook the cat to the anchor.

CROUCHANTS, the crochets, or floor-timbers fore and aft in a boat.

CROULER. See ROULER.

CROULER _un batiment_, to shake a ship by jumping on her decks, in
order to launch her from the stocks.

CROUPIARDER. See MOUILLER _en croupiere_.

CROUPIAT. See EMBOSSURE.

CROUPIERE, or CROUPIAS, a stern-fast, a stern-cable or hawser.

CUEILLE, one of the cloths of a sail.

CUEILLETTE, a measure or weight of any merchandise, which is equal to
a quintal, or 100 ℔.

CUILLER _à brai_, a pitch-ladle, to pay the seams of a deck.

CUILLER _à canon_, or CHARGEOIR, a gunner’s ladle.

CUILLER, _de pompe_, a pump-borer.

CUIRS _verds_, raw hides, used to cover the tops, lace on the yards,
serve the cables, &c.

CUISINE, the galley or cook-room of a ship.

CUL _de lampe_, an ornament of sculpture resembling the bottom of a
lamp, and placed in several parts of the stern or galleries, to
terminate the carved-work.

CUL _de pot_, _de porc_, or _de port_, a double or single wall-knot,
wrought on the end of a tack, stopper, or other rope.

CUL _de sac_, a name given by the inhabitants of America to a harbour
formed by nature without the assistance of art.

CUL _de vaisseau_. See ARRIERE.

CULASSE, the breech of a cannon, also the stock of a musquet.

CULÉE, the shock which a ship feels when striking the ground, on a
rock or sand-bank.

CULER, to go astern, to have stern-way.

CURATEUR _de la marine_, an officer who formerly assigned to the
several TRIÉRARQUES the duties of their respective departments. See
TRIÉRARQUE.

CURETTE, a pump-scraper, fastened to a staff, or pole, of ten or
twelve feet long, to clean the inside of a pump.

CUSEFORNE, a small, long, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan, without
decks, employed to fish whales.

D.

DAGUE _de prevôt_, the colt or cat used by the _prevôt_ to punish
criminals.

DAILLOTS, or ANDAILLOTS, the hanks or grommets of a stay.

DALE, the gutter or channel in which the train is laid in a fire-ship.

DALE _de pompe_, the pump-dale.

DALOTS, the scupper-holes of a ship. See GOUTTIERE.

DAME-JEANNE, a demijan, or large bottle, containing about four or five
gallons, covered with basket-work, and much used in merchant-ships.

DAMELOPRE, a vessel navigated on the canals of Holland.

DAMOISELLES. See LISSES _de porte-haubans_.

DANGERS _civils_, the duty, fine, or exaction, formerly demanded by
the lord of the manor from the merchant, or master, who suffered
shipwreck on his coast. See BRIS.

DANGERS _naturels_, a general name for the dangers of a coast or bank,
as rocks, or shelves of mud, sand, &c. which the officers of the
adjacent ports are charged to distinguish by buoys or beacons.

DARD _a feu_, a fire-arrow, used to burn the sails of an enemy’s ship.

DARSE, or DARSINE. See BASSIN.

DÉBACLE, or DÉBACLAGE, the act of clearing or opening an harbour, by
removing the lightened vessels to make room for such as are laden.

DÉBACLEUR, an officer whose duty it is to regulate the mooring of
light and laden ships in a harbour, and to keep the passage, or
fair-way, open and clear.

DÉBARCADOUR, a wharf, or storehouse, to receive goods discharged from
a ship.

DÉBARDAGE, the act of unlading in general, but particularly fire-wood.

DÉBARDER, to unlade wood, &c. Whence

DÉBARDEUR, a lighter-man. See GABARIER and PORTE-FAIX.

DÉBARQUEMENT, a return of the artillery, stores, rigging, &c. of a
ship of war into the dock-yard; also the discharging of the officers
and crew.

DÉBARQUEMENT likewise implies disembarking, or landing and discharging
the cargo of a merchant-ship.

DÉBARQUER, to unload or discharge a ship, to disembark, to return to
the shore.

DÉBAUCHE, an irregular tide.

DÉBILLER, to take off or dismiss the horses that track vessels up and
down a canal.

DÉBITTER _le cable_, to unbit the cable.

DE BORD _à bord_, upright on the water.

DÉBORDE, put off, sheer off! the order given by some officer of a
ship, to a boat lying near her, to remove farther off.

DÉBORDER, to sheer off from some other ship, particularly an enemy who
attempts to board: also to over-haul the tack and sheets, in order
to haul a sail up in the brails.

DÉBOSSER _le cable_, to take the stoppers off from the cable.

DÉBOUCLÉ, a term opposed to BOUCLÉ, which see.

DÉBOUQUEMENT, the arrival into open sea, after having been amongst
islands, or in narrow channels.

DE BOUT _à la lame_, head to the sea.

DE BOUT _à terre_, head to the shore, standing in shore. See DONNER
_de bout à terre_.

DE BOUT _au corps_. See ABORDAGE.

DE BOUT _au vent_. See ALLER _de bout au vent_.

DÉBOUTONNER _la bonnette_. See DÉLACER.

DÉBRIS, the effects which remain in a shipwrecked vessel. By the
ordonnances of the marine, all persons who shall have found, or
drawn such effects from the bottom of the sea, are to place them in
safety, and in twenty-four hours afterwards, at farthest, to make
proclamation thereof, under pain of being punished as felons: and by
the same ordonnance, it is permitted to the proprietors of the said
effects to demand them in a year and a day after such publication,
upon paying the salvage-money. It is to be wished that this laudable
decree were established in England.

DÉCHARGE, the act of unlading or discharging a merchant-ship.

DÉCHARGE _le petit hunier_, fill the fore-top-sail!

DÉCHARGEMENT. See DÉCHARGE.

_Se_ DÉCHARGER, to lose water; expressed of the ship’s pump.

DÉCHARGER _les voiles_, to fill the sails. See SERVIR.

DÉCHEOIR. See ABATTRE.

DÉCHET. See DÉRIVE.

DÉCHIRAGE, the act of breaking up an old ship, or of ripping off her
planks.

DÉCHIRER, to rip up an old vessel.

DÉCHOUER, to get a ship afloat, or off from the ground, into deep
water.

DÉCLINAISON, the variation of the compass, or of the magnetical
needle.

DÉCLINAISON _d’un astre_, the declination of a fixed star, &c.

DÉCOLEMENT, the forming of a tenon on a piece of timber.

DÉCOMBRES, the chips and useless pieces of timber which are left on a
shipwright’s wharf, after a vessel is built and launched.

DÉCOUDRE, to rip off planks from any part of a ship’s side, in order
to examine her timbers, &c.

DÉCOUVERTE, a look-out at the mast-head.

DÉCOUVRIR _les terres_, to make, or discover, the land.

DEDANS, when expressed of the sails, imports furled or stowed: as,

_Mettre les voiles_ DEDANS, to take in the sails.

DÉFEND, keep off, keep at a distance; the order given by the pilot, or
officer of the watch, to the helmsman, to steer farther from some
adjacent object, which may damage the ship.

DÉFENDRE _la côte_, to defend the sea-coast, and prevent an enemy from
landing thereon.

DÉFENSES, the skeeds of a ship’s side; also booms to send off another
ship which is near.

DÉFENSES _de bouts de cable_. See CORDES _de défense_.

DÉFENSES _pour chaloupes_, loose skeeds hung over a ship’s sides
occasionally, to preserve the boats from being damaged when they are
hoisted into, or out of, the ship.

DÉFERLER, to loose or heave out the sails. See DÉPLOYER.

DÉFIE _du vent_, you are all in the wind, keep her full! an
information or caution to the helmsman, that the ship is too near
the wind; implying that he should keep her farther off, or more to
leeward, to fill the sails.

DÉFIE _l’ancre du bord_, bear off the anchor! the order to keep the
fluke or bill of the anchor off from the side, to prevent it from
tearing the planks at the time of hoisting the fluke up, to be
secured by the shank-painter.

DÉFIER, to bear off, as a ship from a wharf, or one vessel from
another, to prevent either from being bruised or damaged by rubbing,
striking, &c.

DÉFUNER, to unrig a ship, to strip a mast, &c.

DÉGAGER _un vaisseau_, to rescue a ship from the possession, attack,
or pursuit, of an enemy.

DÉGARNIR _le cabestan_, to unrig the capstern, by taking off the viol
and unshipping the bars.

DÉGARNIR _un vaisseau_, to unrig or dismantle a ship. See DEGRÉER.

DÉGAUCHIR, to bevel or form a piece of timber, so as to fit aptly the
place for which it is designed.

DÉGORGEOIR, the bit or priming-iron of a cannon.

DÉGRADER _un vaisseau_, to lay-by a ship; also to quit or abandon a
ship at sea, after having taken out the rigging, stores, &c. when
she is become so old and crazy as to be equally useless and
dangerous.

DÉGRAPPINER, to warp a ship off from the ice by the means of
grapplings, when she had approached too near it.

DEGRÉ, the division of a degree upon a quadrant, nocturnal, &c.

DEGRÉ _de latitude_, a degree of latitude.

DEGRÉ _de longitude_, a degree of longitude.

DÉGRÉER, to unrig a ship; also to loose the rigging in a storm. See
DESAGRÉER.

DEHORS, the offing, the outside, or road, of a harbour.

DÉJOUER, to fly out, to flutter, or turn in the wind, expressed of
flags, pendants, &c.

DÉLACER _la bonnette_, to unlace or take off the bonnet from the foot
of a sail.

DÉLAISSEMENT, an instrument, or act, by which the loss of a ship is
announced by the master or merchant to an insurer, summoning him to
pay the stipulated insurance.

DÉLESTAGE, the discharging of ballast from a ship.

DÉLESTEUR, an officer appointed to receive the ballast of ships; also
a ballast-lighter,

DELOT, or rather COSSE. See COSSE.

DÉMAILLER. See DÉLACER.

DEMANDE, the scantlings or proportions required in each piece of
timber which enters into the construction of a ship of war; also the
capacity of every piece, without regard to such demand.

DÉMARAGE, or DÉMARRAGE, breaking adrift from the moorings, parting the
cables.

DÉMARRE, the order to cast off, let go a cable, hawser, or other rope.

DÉMARRER, to unmoor, to weigh anchor, to put to sea.

DÉMATÉ, dismasted by a storm or battle; also without the masts, when
they have been hoisted out.

DÉMATER, to take out the masts of a ship.

DEMEURER, to remain, or be left, in some road, bay, or harbour.

DEMI-BARRES, the bars of an English capstern.

DEMI-CLEF, a half-hitch on a rope, &c.

DEMI-PIQUE, a half-pike, sometimes used to oppose the boarders in a
sea-fight.

DEMI-PONT, the half-deck. See CORPS _de garde_.

DEMOISELLES. See LISSE _de porte-haubans_.

DEMONTER _le gouvernail_, to unhang the rudder.

DÉPARTEMENT, a marine arsenal, or dock-yard and gun-wharf; also the
extent of the district and jurisdiction of an _intendant_ of the
marine.

DÉPASSER, to be ahead of one’s reckoning; to sail past or beyond the
place intended, as by mistake.

DÉPASSER _la tournevire_, to shift the viol, or change it to the other
side of the cap-stern.

DÉPASSER _un vaisseau_, to fore-reach, gain ground upon, or pass
another ship, when sailing in company with her.

DÉPECER _un batiment_. See DÉCHIRER.

DÉPENCE, the steward-room in a ship of war.

DÉPENCIER, or DÉPENSIER _d’un vaisseau_, the ship’s steward. See
MAITRE-VALET.

DÉPENDANT. _Aller en_ DÉPENDANT, to sail in company; to follow.

_Tomber en_ DÉPENDANT, to bear up; to shorten sail in order to
veering.

DÉPLOER _le pavillon_, to let fly or display the ensign.

DÉPLOIER _une voile_, to heave out, or set a sail.

DÉPREDÉ, goods plundered or robbed from a wreck, contrary to law.

DÉRADER, to drive with the anchors ahead; to be driven from the
anchors and forced out to sea, by the violence of a storm.

DÉRALINGUER, to blow from the bolt-rope, in a storm; spoken of a sail.

DERAPER, to loosen from the ground; understood of the anchor when it
is almost aweigh.

DÉRIVATION, the yawing, or deviation from the line of the course.

DÉRIVE, the angle of lee-way, or drift.

DÉRIVE is also the stray-line, or allowance made for stray-line,
occasioned by a ship’s falling to leeward, when sounding, in deep
water.

DÉRIVE is likewise used for a lee-board. See SEMELLE.

DÉRIVE _qui vaut la route_, a drift favourable to the course.

_Belle_ DÉRIVE, a good offing, or sea-room.

DÉRIVER, to drive, to be driven to leeward by a tempest or foul wind.

DÉROBER _le vent d’un vaisseau_, to becalm a ship; also to becalm some
of the sails with others.

DÉSAFOURCHER, to unmoor.

DÉSAGRÉER, to have the rigging, or a part of it, blown away or lost by
a storm, &c.

DEÉSANCRER, to weigh anchor, and depart from a port or road.

DÉSARBORER, to strike the top-mast and haul down the colours.

DÉSARMEMENT. See DÉCHARGEMENT, and DÉBARQUEMENT.

DÉSARRIMER, to alter or shift the stowage of the hold, in order to
change the ship’s trim.

DESCENDRE, to maroon. See DESERTER.

DESCENDRE _une riviere_, to fall down a river with the tide.

DESCENTE, a descent or landing upon an enemy’s country.

DÉSEMBARQUER. See DÉBARQUEMENT.

_Vaisseau_ DÉSEMPARÉ, a ship disabled, as in a tempest or battle.

DÉSEMPARER _un vaisseau_, to disable a ship in battle, by dismasting
her and destroying her sails, &c.

DESERTER _quelqu’un_, to maroon a sailor, or leave him ashore in a
foreign country contrary to his inclination.

DESSUS _du vent_. See AVANTAGE _du vent_.

_Vingt hommes la_-DESSUS, clap on here twenty hands! the order from an
officer for twenty men to be employed on some particular duty.

DESTINATION, the place whither a ship is bound.

DÉTACHER, to select some ships from a squadron, for a particular
service.

_Se_ DÉTACHER, to quit or abandon the fleet.

DE TALINGUER, to unbend the cable, or take it off from the anchor.

DÉTREMPEUR _de viandes salées & de poisson_, the cook’s shifter.

DÉTROIT, a streight or narrow channel between two lands; also an
isthmus between two seas.

DÉVENTER _les voiles_, to shiver the sails, or brace them to shiver in
the wind.

DEVERGUER, to unbend the sails from their yards.

DEVERS, the moulding of any piece of timber, amongst shipwrights.
Whence _Marquer le bois suivant son_ DEVERS, to mould the timber
according to its compass or inclination.

DÉVIRER _le cable_, to surge the cable about the capstern or windlas,
in order to prevent it from riding, with one part over another.

DEVIS, a scheme containing the general dimensions of a ship, from
which the shipwright is to form a draught for constructing her.

DEXTRIBORD, or rather STRIBORD, the starbord side of a ship. See
STRIBORD.

DIABLOTIN, the mizen top-mast stay-sail.

DIGON, or DIGUON, the stock or staff of a vane or pendant; also a
piece of the ship’s cut water.

DIGUE, a wall, mound, or pier, of earth or stone, and sometimes of
timber, built on the margin of a river, to confine it within its
banks so that it may not overflow the adjacent country.

DILIGENCE, a swift-sailing wherry, or passage-boat.

DISPUTER _le vent_, to strive for the weather-gage, or endeavour to
get to windward of some ship, or fleet in sight.

DISTANCE _de ports, &c._ the line of distance, in navigation, between
any two given places, whose latitude and longitude are known.

DISTANCE _de sabords_, the distance, or interval, between two
gun-ports in a ship’s side.

DIVISION _d’une armée navale_, one division of a fleet of ships of
war.

DIXIEME, an additional cask allowed by an agent-victualler to every
ten casks of sea provisions, to answer for waste or leakage.

DOGRE, or DOGRE-_bot_, a Dutch dogger.

DOGUES _d’amure_, the holes in the chess-trees. See TAQUET.

DONNER _à la côte, sur un banc, ou sur un écueil_, to run aground,
strike, or be stranded on any coast, shoal, or rock.

DONNER _de bout à terre_, to run right in for the land.

DONNER _dedans_, to enter a port, road, &c.

DONNER _le bas de soie_. See BAS _de soie_.

DONNER _les culées_, to strike repeatedly on a shelf or rock.

DONNER _le fond_. See MOUILLER.

DONNER _la cale_. See CALE.

DONNER _la chasse_. See CHASSER.

DONNER _le côté_. See PRETER _le côté_.

DONNER _le feu à un vaisseau_, to bream a ship.

DONNER _le suif_, to pay a ship’s bottom after she is breamed.

DONNER _vent devant_, to throw a ship up in the wind, or in stays; to
bring the wind ahead, by putting the helm a-lee.

DONNER _un grand hunier_, to spare a main top-sail to some other ship
in company; implying, that such ship sails slower by as much, as the
force of a main-top-sail assists her velocity.

DONNEUR _à la grosse_, the insurer of a ship and her cargo.

DORER _un vaisseau_, to pay a ship’s bottom. See ESPALMER.

DORMANTE, _l’eau_ DORMANTE, standing water, or water where no tide
runs.

DORMANT, the standing part of a tackle, brace, or other running rope.

_Bateau fait à_ DOS _d’ane_, a sharp-bottomed boat.

DOU _est la navire_? whence came the ship? where belongs the ship to?

DOUBLAGE, the sheathing applied to the bottom of a ship, to preserve
her.

DOUBLE _d’une manœuvre_, the bight of a rope. See BALANT.

DOUBLER, to double, or double upon, in a sea-fight.

DOUBLER _le sillage_, to make a crooked wake; to run over more space
of water than is necessary, by bad steerage.

DOUBLER _un cap_, _parer un cap_, to double, or pass beyond a cape,
and leave it behind.

DOUBLER _un vaisseau_, to sheathe a ship’s bottom.

DOUCIN, a name given by seamen to brackish water.

DRAGAN, the ornamented part of the stern of a row-galley.

DRAGON, a whirlpool, or vortex of water.

DRAGON _de vent_, a sudden gust or violent squall of wind.

DRAGUE, a drag, or instrument to clean the bottoms of rivers and
canals; also to catch oysters.

DRAGUE _de canon_. See BRAGUE.

DRAGUER, to clean the bottom of a river or canal with a drag.

DRAGUER _l’ancre_, to drag, or sweep the bottom, for an anchor which
is lost.

DREGE, a sort of net for catching soles and turbot.

DRESSE _la chaloupe_, trim the boat! See BARQUE _droite_.

DRESSER _les vergues_, to brace the yards to the wind when the sails
are furled at sea.

DRESSER _une piece de bois_, to trim or prepare any piece of timber
for its use.

DRISSE, or ISSAS, the haliards of any sail or yard.

DRISSE _de pavillon_, the ensign haliards.

_Allonge la_ DRISSE, the order to man the haliards, or stretch them
along to be manned.

DROGUERIE, the herring-fishery, or the catching and preparation of
herrings, on the Northern Banks.

DROIT _d’ancrage_. See ANCRAGE.

DROIT _de congé_. See CONGÉ.

DROIT _de varech, ou varet_. See CHOSES _de la mer_, and DÉBRIS.

_Aller en_ DROITURE, or _faire sa route en_ DROITURE, to make a strait
course, to make a voyage without touching at any intermediate port.

DROSSE, or DROUSSE, the tiller-rope, formed of white hemp, and wound
about the barrel of a ship’s wheel.

DROSSE _de canon_, a gun-tackle.

DROSSE _de racage_, a parrel-rope, or truss-rope.

DUNES, downs or heights on the sea-coast.

DUNETTE, the poop of a ship of war.

DUNETTE _sur_ DUNETTE, the poop-royal. See TEUGUE.

E.

EAU _changée_, discoloured water, or water whose colour is changed by
approaching the shore, or otherwise.

EAU _du vaisseau_. See SILLAGE.

EAU _haute_, high-water. See HAUTE-MARÉE.

EAU _maigre_, or _Maigre-eau_, shoal-water. This phrase is peculiar to
the common sailors.

EAU _plate & courtoise_, very smooth water; the state of the water in
a dead calm.

EAU _premiere_ & EAU _seconde_, the first and second floods after a
neap-tide.

EAUX _fermées_, water enclosed with ice.

EAUX _ouvertes_, an open channel, after the ice has melted or
separated.

EBAROUI, abounding with shakes or rents; expressed of a ship whose
planks are split, and her seams opened, by the sun or wind, for want
of being wetted, or sluiced over with water, in the evenings and
mornings.

EBE, or JUSSANT, the ebb-tide.

_Il y à_ EBE, the tide ebbs, or falls.

EBRANLEMENT, the cracking or straining of a ship, as she labours in a
high sea.

ECALE, the touching, or anchoring, at any port, in the course of a
voyage.

ECARLINGUE. See CARLINGUE.

ECART _double_, a scarf of two ends of timber laid over each other.

ECART _simple ou quarré_, butt and butt; the joining of the butt-ends
of two planks.

ECHAFAUD, a flake, or light stage, used in Newfoundland to dry
cod-fish; also a stage hung over a ship’s side, to caulk or repair
any breach.

ECHANDOLE. See ESCANDOLE.

ECHANTILLONS, the scantlings or dimensions of the different pieces of
timber used in ship-building.

ECHARPE, the shell of a block or pulley. See ARCASSE and MOUFFLE.

ECHARS, a wind that veers and hauls; a light and variable wind.

ECHELLE, a scale of equal parts; also a sea-port town, in the dialect
of Provence.

ECHELLE _de pouppe_, the stern or quarter-ladder, formed of ropes.

ECHELLES, the gangway and ladder, which serve to ascend or descend the
ship’s side; likewise the several ladders between decks.

ECHELLES _de latitude croissante_. See CARTE _réduite_.

ECHILON, a water-spout. See SIPHON.

ECHOME, a thoule-pin. See AUTARELLES and THOLET.

ECHOUEMENT, the state of being stranded or wrecked on a coast.

ECHOUER _sur la rivage_, to run ashore, or aground; also to be
stranded.

ECLAIRCIE, a clear spot in a cloudy sky. See CLAIRON.

ECLAT _de bois_, a splinter, or chip, torn from any piece of timber,
by the force of a cannon-ball or by the stroke of an ax.

ECLUSE, a sluice, or dam.

ECOLE, the school, or academy, in a dock-yard, where navigation,
arithmetic, and fortification are taught.

ECOPE, a boat’s scoop, or skeet, to throw out the water in her bottom.

ECORE, the edge or extremity of a sand-bank. See CÔTE.

ECORES, are also the shores or props which sustain a ship in dock, or
on the stocks, when they are repairing or building her. See ACCORES.

ECOTARD. See PORTE-HAUBANS.

ECOUETS, the tacks of the main-sail and fore-sail.

ECOUPE, or ECOUPÉE, a swab. See FAUBER.

ECOUTES, the sheets of a sail.

ECOUTE _de bonette en étui_, the tack or guy of a studding-sail boom.

_Avoir les_ ECOUTES _largues_, to sail with a flowing sheet.

_Larguer ou filer l’_ECOUTE, to ease off the sheet.

_Border les_ ECOUTES, to haul aft the sheets.

_Border plat les_ ECOUTES, to haul the sheets flat aft, or close aft.

ECOUTILLE _qui s’emboîte_, a hatchway with a scuttle which covers its
border,

ECOUTILLES, the hatchways and scuttles in a ship’s deck.

ECOUTILLES _à huit pans_, ECOUTILLES _du mât_, the holes and partners
of the mast.

ECOUTILLON, a scuttle, or small hatchway; also its cover.

ECOUVILLON, the spunge of a cannon.

ECOUVILLONNER, to spunge the inside of a cannon; to clean or cool it
with a wet spunge.

ECRITURES, the papers of a ship, comprehending journals, registers,
passports, &c.

ECRIVAIN, the clerk of a ship of war; also the supercargo of a
merchant-ship.

ECRIVAIN _emploié aux constructions_, the clerk of the cheque of a
dock-yard.

ECRIVAIN _de la corderie_, the clerk of the rope-yard.

ECUBIERS, the hawse-holes; also the hawse-pieces, through which those
holes are cut.

ECUEIL, a dangerous rock or shoal.

ECUELLE _de cabestan_, the iron socket or sawcer of the capstern.

ECUME, the froth or foam of a breaking sea.

ECUMER _la mer_, to scour or infest the sea, as a pirate.

ECUSSON, ECU _des armes_, a compartment or scutcheon upon the stern,
fore-castle, or belfry, upon which the arms of the ship’s owner, or
of the province or city from which her name is derived, are painted
or carved. These are more peculiar to the French and Dutch than
English vessels.

EFFACER, to bring the broadside to bear upon some adjacent object, by
clapping a spring upon the cable.

EFFLOTER, to part company, or separate at sea, as from a fleet or
other ship.

EGOUTTOIR, a grating, or drain, wherein to lay cordage after it is
tarred.

EGUILLES _de tré_. See AIGUILLES.

EGUILLETTES, or rather AIGUILLETTES, the futtock-riders.

EGUILLETTES, knittles, or small robands; also the loops or buttons of
a bonnet.

EGUILLETTES _de mâts_. See ENTENNES.

EGUILLETTES _de pontons_, the cleats, or timber-heads on the gunnel of
a pontoon, whereto the relieving-tackles are hooked in the act of
careening a ship.

ELANCEMENT, or QUETE, the rake of a ship: the former of these terms is
always applied to the stem, and the latter to the stern-post. See
QUETE.

ELARGIR, to give chase; also to fly from a pursuing enemy.

_S’_ELEVER, to stand out to sea; also to claw off from a lee-shore.

_S’_ELEVER _en latitude_. See HAUTEUR.

ELINGUER, to sling a cask, bale, or box.

ELINGUES, slings of any kind.

ELINGUES _à pattes_, can-hooks.

ELINGUET, the pawl of a capstern or windlas.

ELME, a meteor, called by English seamen a corposant. See FEU
_Saint-Elme_.

EMBANQUÉ, to be upon a fishing-bank, as those of Newfoundland.

EMBARDER, to sheer on one side or the other; to yaw, or steer
obliquely. See ELANCER.

EMBARGO, an imbargo.

EMBARQUEMENT, an embarkation.

EMBARQUER, to ship, to put goods, stores, &c. on shipboard.

_S’_EMBARQUER, to embark, or enter a ship.

EMBELLE, the gangway, or that part of the gunnel which is in the waist
of a ship from the gangway to the chess-tree, or fore-castle.

EMBODINURE, or EMBOUDINURE, the puddening of an anchor.

EMBOSSER, to anchor, or moor a ship.

EMBOSSURE, a knot formed on the end of a rope, to which a laniard is
fastened; also a bend, by which one rope is fastened to another.

EMBOSSURES, a general name for moorings, stoppers, lashings, and
laniards.

EMBOUCHURE, the mouth of a river; also the entrance or opening of a
bay or gulph.

EMBOUFFETÉ, clinch-work.

EMBOUQUER, to enter into a streight or passage, through several
islands.

EMBRAQUER, to haul, or rowse any rope into a ship; to haul aboard a
rope.

EMBROUILLER _les voiles_, to brail up, clue up, or take in the sails.

EMBRUMÉ, foggy weather.

EMMARINÉ, hardened to the sea; as

_Matelot_ EMMARINÉ, a case-hardened or weather-beaten tar; a veteran
sailor.

EMMARINER _un vaisseau_, to mann a ship, or furnish her with seamen.

EMMIELLER _un étai_, to worm a stay.

EMMORTOISER, to fill up a mortise with its tenon.

EMPANNER. See METTRE _en panne_.

EMPATER, to make a scarf; to scarf two pieces of timber together.

EMPATURE, the scarf of two ends of plank or timber.

EMPECHÉ, _un manœuvre_ EMPECHÉ, foul, or entangled; an epithet applied
to a rope, or tackle, in that situation.

EMPENNELLE, a small anchor sunk ahead of a larger one, to which it is
fastened by a small hawser, or tow-line, to prevent the large anchor
from loosening, or coming home to the ship.

EMPENNELLER, to carry out the _empennelle_.

EMPESER _la voile_, _la mouiller_, to wet the sails, in order to hold
the wind better.

EMPIRANCE, the diminution of a ship’s cargo, by waste, decay, or
damage, when it is found deficient at the time of delivery.

EMPORTER, to carry away a mast; as, _le grand mât fut emporté_, the
main-mast was carried away, or, overboard.

EMPOULETTE. See HORLOGE.

ENCABANEMENT, the tumbling-home of a ship’s side, or narrowing of her
breadth from the lower-deck-beam upwards to the gunnel.

ENCAPÉ, embayed, or entered between two capes.

ENCASTILLAGE, the elevation of the fore-castle and quarter-deck,
together with all the height of a ship above the gunnel of her
waist.

ENCASTILLÉ, deep-waisted, or frigate-built; as opposed to
galley-built.

ENCLAVER, to let into a rabbit; as the garboard-streak is let into the
keel.

ENCOGNURE, the elbow or angle of a knee or standard.

ENCOMBREMENT, cumbersome or unwieldy goods, that embarrass the stowage
of a merchant-ship.

ENCOQUER, to fix or slide on, as an iron ring, block-strop, or the eye
of a brace-pendant is fixed upon a yard-arm.

ENCOQUURE, the situation of an eye of a pendant, or studding-sail
boom-iron, fixed on a yard arm.

ENCORNAIL, the sheave-hole in a top-mast-head, through which the
top-sail-tye is reeved, to hoist or lower the top-sail along the
mast.

ENCOUTURÉ, clinch-work. See also EMBOUFFETÉ.

ENDENTÉ, dove-tailed, indented.

ENDORMI, out of the sailing-trim; spoken of a ship which has lost her
usual velocity, or trim. See ERRE.

ENFILER _les cables en virant_, to heave in the cables by the
capstern.

ENFLECHURES, the rattlings of the shrouds.

ENFLEMENT, a swell, a rough or swelling sea, produced by a storm, &c.

ENGAGÉ, an indented servant, who engages to serve a limited time, to
defray the expence of his voyage to a distant country.

ENGAGEMENT, the contract, or articles of agreement between the seamen
and the commander of a merchant-ship.

ENGINS, frigates of war; a general name for those ships of war which
are too small for the line of battle.

ENGRAISSEMENT, _joindre du bois par_ ENGRAISSEMENT, to drive forcibly
into a mortise; to fit a piece of wood so exactly, that no vacancy
shall be left on any side.

ENGRENER _la pompe_, to pump the water out of a ship’s bottom.

ENJALER _une ancre_, to stock, or fix the stock upon, an anchor.

ENLACURE, the bolting of a tenon into its mortise, by boring a hole
and driving a bolt through both, to unite them more securely.

ENMANCHÉ, entered or arrived, into the channel.

ENSEIGNE _de vaisseau_, an officer under the lieutenant, who executes
his duty in his absence; also the ensign of a ship.

ENTAILLE, the rabbit or mortise by which one piece of timber is let
into another.

ENTENNES, the props, or out-riggers, fixed on the side of a
sheer-hulk, to support the sheers.

ENTER, to join two pieces of wood, as by scarfing, rabbiting, or
placing them butt-and-butt.

ENTERRER _les futailes_, to stow the water-casks of a ship in the
ballast.

ENTRÉE _d’une riviere_. See EMBOUCHURE.

ENTREMISES, small wedges, or chocks, placed between the whelps of a
capstern, to keep them firm in their places.

ENTREPOT, a commercial harbour, where a magazine or storehouse is
established, for the reception and exportation of goods; also a
factory, or society of merchants, in a trading sea-port.

ENTREPRENEUR, a contractor for building and furnishing a ship,
completely fitted according to stated dimensions.

ENTRER _dans le port_, to sail into the harbour.

ENTRE SABORDS, the planks which form the intervals between the ports
of a ship’s side.

ENTRE-TOISE, the transoms of a gun-carriage, used at sea.

ENVERGUER, to bend a sail to its yard: this phrase is also frequently
used for bending a stay-sail to its stay.

ENVERGURE, the dimensions of the sails with regard to their extent
upon the yards: hence _une grande_ ENVERGURE, implies very square
sails.

ENVOIE, the order to the helmsman to put the helm a-lee, in order to
bring the ship head to wind.

EPARS _du pavillon_, the flag-staff, or ensign-staff.

EPAVES. See CHOSES _de la mer_.

EPAULES _d’un vaisseau_, the bows of a ship.

EPAULEMENT _d’un tenon_, the shoulder of a tenon, which enters a
mortise.

EPAURES, or EPAVRES, the ledges upon which the fore sheets and
stern-sheets of a boat are framed.

EPÉES, handspikes. Se BARRES _de virevaut_.

EPERON, or POULAINE, the cut-water, or knee of the head, which is
composed of several pieces, as _la gorgere_, _le digon_, _les
jottereaux_, _la courbe capucine_, & _les herpes_. See GORGERE, &c.

EPINEUX, rocky above water; full of rocks and breakers.

EPISSER, to splice a rope.

EPISSOIR, or CORNET _d’épisse_, a marline-spike, or splicing fid of
hard wood.

EPISSURE, a splice of any kind.

EPISSURE _courte_, a short splice.

EPISSURE _longue_, a long splice.

EPITE, a small pin or wedge, driven into the end of a tree-nail, to
fill it.

EPITIÉ, a shot-garland, on the ship’s side between the guns.

EPONTILLE, a stanchion. See BATAYOLLES.

EPONTILLES _d’entre pont_, the stanchions between decks.

EQUIPAGE, the crew of a ship of war, comprehending the officers,
sailors, ordinary mariners, and boys; but exclusive of the captain,
lieutenant, and ensign.

EQUIPAGE _d’attelier_, a general name for the machinery and furniture
of a dock-yard, or shipwright’s wharf, as cranes, gins, screws, &c.

EQUIPAGE _de pompe_, the pump-gear, or furniture of the pumps.

EQUIPE, the number or set of boats belonging to one waterman or
wherryman.

EQUIPEMENT, the fitting out of a ship, or furnishing her with men,
provisions, stores, &c.

EQUIPER, to man, arm, and provide a ship with whatever is necessary to
prosecute war, or commerce; exclusive, however, of the cargo itself.

ERISSON, a grappling, or anchor with four claws, used in low-built
vessels, particularly galleys.

ERRE, the sailing trim of a ship, or the state by which she is best
qualified for the purpose of sailing.

ERSE _de poulie_. See ESTROPE.

ERSES, or ÉTROPES _d’afût_, the strops or eye-bolts in the train of a
gun-carriage, to which the relieving-tackles are hooked.

ESCADRE, a squadron of ships of war.

ESCALE. See ECALE.

ESCANDOLA, the cabin of the _argousin_ of a row-galley.

ESCARBITE, a caulker’s oil-box, or the case which contains thrums
steeped in oil, to clean his irons when he is at work.

ESCARPÉ, steep-to; expressed of a shore which may be approached
without danger.

ESCARPINE, a fire-arm, resembling a cohorn, used at sea.

ESCHILON. See ECHILON.

ESCOPE, or rather ECOPE, a skeet to wet the sails, or the ship’s side.
See ECOPE.

ESCOT, the aftmost lower corner of a lateen sail.

ESPALE, the aftmost bank or thwart of a row-galley.

ESPALIER, the person who rows with the handle of the oar, or who is at
the inner extremity, and rises at every stroke to guide it.

ESPALMER, to pay the bottom of a vessel with soap, &c. after having
breamed her.

ESPOIR, a small piece of artillery, formed of brass, mounted on the
deck of a ship, more particularly the _caraques_ of Portugal.

ESPONTON, a sort of half-pike, employed to defend a ship from the
assault of boarding.

ESPOULETTE, a tin canteen, or case, to carry fine powder to the
cannon, in the time of battle.

ESQUAINS, the quick-work, or the planks laid upon that part of a
ship’s side which is above the spirketting of the quarter-deck and
fore-castle.

ESQUIF, a skiff, yawl, or small boat belonging to a ship.

ESSES, the forelocks which are driven through the axletrees of the
gun-carriages, to confine the wheels in their proper places.

ESSIEU, or rather AISSIEU, _d’affut de bord_, the axis of a
gun-carriage, by which it rests upon the wheels.

ESSUIEUX. See ECOUVILLON.

ESTAINS, the fashion-pieces of the stern.

ESTANCE _à taquets_, a Sampson’s-post. See also PIÉDROIT.

ESTANCES. See EPONTILLES _d’entre-pont_.

ESTERRE, a small haven or creek.

ESTIME, the dead-reckoning.

_Erreur dans l’_ESTIME, the errors of a dead-reckoning.

ESTIVE, the trim or disposition of the cargo, by which the ship swims
upright, inclining to neither side.

ESTOUPIN, ETOUPIN, or VALET, the vent of a cannon, formed of oakum.

ESTRAN, a name sometimes given to a flat and sandy sea-coast.

ESTRAPADE _marine_, a naval punishment. See CALE.

ESTRAPONTIN, an Indian hammock. See HAMAC.

ESTRIBORD, or STRIBORD. See STRIBORD.

ESTROPER, to reeve a rope through any block.

ESTROPES, a general name for block-strops.

ESTROPES _d’affut_. See ERSES.

ESTROPES _de marche-pieds_, the stirrups of the horses.

ETABLI _sur ses amarres_, settled, moored, or stationed in a port.

ÉTAI, the stay of a mast.

ÉTAI _du grand mât_, or _grand etai_, the main-stay.

ÉTAI _du grand mât de hune_, the main-top-mast-stay.

ÉTAI _du grand perroquet_, the main-top-gallant-stay.

ÉTAI _du mât d’artimon_, the mizen-stay.

ÉTAI _du mât de hune d’avant_, the fore-top-mast-stay.

ÉTAI _du misaine_, or _du mât de misaine_, the fore-stay.

ÉTAI _de perroquet d’artimon_, or _de foule_, the mizen-top-mast-stay,

ÉTAI _de voile d’étai_, a stay-sail-stay.

_Faux_-ÉTAI, a preventer-sail.

ETALER, to anchor during the interval of a contrary tide, in a foul
wind, with intent to pursue the course the next favourable tide.

ETALINGUE, the part of a cable which is bent to the anchor.

ETALINGUER, to bend the cable to its anchor.

ETAMBOT, the stern-post of a ship.

ETAMBRAIES, the holes or scuttles in a ship’s decks, through which the
masts are let down; also the partners of the mast.

ETAMINE, buntine; a cloth of which a ship’s colours are made.

ETANCHER, to stop a leak; also to pump the water out of a ship.

ETANÇONS, a sort of stanchions.

ETAPE, a mart, or place of public sale for merchandise; also a
commercial port.

ETARCURE, the drop or depth of a sail.

ETAT _d’armement_, a list, or register, containing the number of
ships, and of officers, destined for a naval armament; as also the
quality and proportion of cordage, sails, and furniture of a ship,
&c.

_Capitaine du grand_ ETAT, a captain of a ship of the line of battle.

_Capitaine du petit_ ETAT, a master and commander.

ETENDARD, the royal standard, carried by the principal galley of
France.

ETÉSIES, or _vents_ ETÉSIENS, trade-winds, or monsoons.

ÉTOUPE, oakum, or oakham.

ÉTOUPE _blanche_, white oakum, or that which is formed of untarred
ropes.

ÉTOUPE _goudronnée_, black oakum, or oakum made of tarred ropes.

ETRAQUE, the limited breadth of a streak, or plank, used in
ship-building.

ETRAQUE _de gabord_, the garboard-streak, or the breadth of the streak
next to the keel.

ETRAVE, the stem of a ship.

ETRE _à flot_, the state of being buoyed up by the water.

ETRE _à la gamelle_, to mess with the common sailors.