Chapter L: L, the deck-transom (8)

MANNE, a sort of hand-basket, used on several occasions in a ship.

MANŒUVRE, the working of a ship, or the direction of her movements, by
the power of the helm, and the disposition of the sails to the wind.

MANOEUVRE _basse_, the work or employment which may be performed upon
deck, by the effort of the ropes upon the sails and yards.

MANOEUVRE _fine_, a dextrous management of the ship in working her.

MANOEUVRE _grosse_, heavy and laborious work in a ship; as the
embarkation of the artillery and cables, and stowing of the anchors.

MANOEUVRE _hardie_, a difficult or dangerous undertaking in a ship.

MANOEUVRE _haute_, the employment of the sailors in the tops, at the
mast-heads, and upon the yards.

MANOEUVRE _tortue_, a lubberly or aukward manner of working a ship.

MANOEUVRER, to work a ship, or direct the movements of a fleet.

MANŒUVRES, a general name given to the rigging, sails, blocks, and
cordage of a ship: but more particularly to the standing and running
ropes.

MANOEUVRES _à queue de rat_, ropes which taper to the end; as the main
and fore-tacks.

MANOEUVRES _en bande_, slack ropes which are unemployed.

MANOEUVRES-_majors_, a name usually given to the largest ropes in a
ship; as the ground-tackling, and the principal stays.

MANOEUVRES _passees à contre_, ropes leading forward; as those of the
mizen-mast.

MANOEUVRES _passées a tour_, ropes leading aft.

MANŒUVRIER, an able or expert sea-officer; or one who is perfectly
skilled in working a ship by every method of sailing.

MANQUER, to fly loose; understood of a rope which is broke, or
loosened from the place where it was made fast, so as to be blown
out to leeward, &c.

MANTEAUX, two folding-doors in a bulk-head.

MANTELETS, the covers of the ports in a ship’s side; called also ports
in English, although improperly.

MANTURES, the rolling waves of the sea. See HOULES, LAMES, and _Coup
de_ MER.

MANUELLE, the whipstaff of a helm; an instrument which is now entirely
disused.

MAQUILLEUR, a decked boat, used for the fishery of mackarel.

MARABOUT, a sail hoisted in the gallies in stormy weather.

MARAIS _salans_, salt pits on the sea coast, or reservoirs to contain
sea-water, for the purpose of making salt.

MARANDER, a phrase of the common sailors in the channel, which implies
to steer easily.

MARCHE-PIED, the horse of any yard.

MARCHE-PIED is also a space about three fathoms broad, left on the
banks of a river, whereon to draw their boats ashore, &c.

MARCHER. See _Ordre de_ MARCHE.

MARCHER _dans les eaux d’un autre vaisseau_, to sail in the wake or
track of another ship; to follow another ship.

MARCHER _en colonne_, to sail in a line, or column.

MARÉAGE, the hire or pay of a sailor for any particular voyage.

MARÉES, the tides. See FLUX _& reflux_.

_Mortes_ MARÉES, neap-tides, or dead-neap.

MARÉES _qui portent au vent_, a wind-tide, or tide which runs to
windward.

MARÉES _& contre-marées_, tide and half-tide.

_La_ MARÉE _est haut_, it is high-water.

MARÉE _qui soutiennent_, a tide which counteracts the wind, with
regard to a ship’s course, enabling her to turn to windward better.

MARGOUILLET, a bull’s eye, or wooden traveller.

MARGUERITES, a name given to jiggers, or such sort of purchases, used
to pull a rope with greater effort.

_Faire_-MARGUERITE, to clap a messenger on the cable when the anchor
cannot be purchased by the voyal.

MARIN, a sea-faring man of any denomination.

MARINE, implies in general the knowledge of maritime affairs: also the
persons employed in the sea-service, &c.

_Gens de_ MARINE, seamen, fishermen, &c.

_Officiers de_ MARINE, sea-officers.

MARINIER, a name generally given to sailors; but more particularly to
lightermen.

MARITIME, marine: of, or belonging to, the sea.

_Batteaux_ MARNOIS, a yacht, hoy, or smack, employed on the rivers of
Marne and Seine.

MARQUES, the sea-marks observed by the pilots upon any coast; as
mountains, spires, windmills, &c.

MARSILIANE, a square-sterned ship, navigated on the gulf of Venice,
and along the coasts of Dalmatia. They are of several sizes; the
largest carrying about 700 tons.

MARTEAU _à dents_, a claw-hammer used by ship-wrights.

MARTICLES, or _lignes de trélingage_, a crow-foot, or complicated
span.

MARTICLES is also a name given by some to the furling-lines of small
sails.

MARTINET, is properly the runner or tye which is fastened to the
dead-eye of a crow-foot, used as a topping-lift for the mizen-yard.

MARTINET is also a general name for the haliards, or tail of a
crow-foot.

MASCARET, a violent eddy of the tide.

MASLES, the pintles, by which the rudder is hung upon the stern-post.
See FERRURE _de gouvernail_.

MASSE, a large iron maul, used by ship-wrights to drive the tree-nails
and bolts into the ship’s side: also a very long tiller used in some
lighters.

MASULIT, a sort of Indian boat, whose sides are composed of the bark
of trees, and which are calked with moss.

MAT, a mast. The principal masts of a ship are,

_Le grand_ MAT, the main-mast,

MAT _de misaine_, the fore-mast,

MAT _d’artimon_, the mizen-mast.

MAT _d’un brin_, a mast formed of one piece only; such are the
bow-sprit and top-masts of all ships, and all the masts of a small
vessel.

MAT _forcé_, a mast which, is sprung.

MAT _jumellé_, _reclampé_ or _renforcé_, a mast which is fished in a
weak place, or opposite to a spring.

MATS _de rechange_, spare top-masts, or masts in reserve.

_Aller à_ MATS _& à cordes_, _Mettre à_ MATS _& à cordes_, _se mettre
à sec_, to try, or scud under bare poles.

MATS _venus à bas_, masts which are carried away.

MATS _de hune hauts_, to have the top-mast an end, or swayed up.

MATAFIONS, knittles, or small robands.

MATÉ _en caravelle_, fitted with pole top-masts.

MATÉ _en chandelier_, masted upright. Expressed of a ship whose masts
are stayed so as neither to hang forward or aft.

MATÉ _en frégate_, the bent or inclination of the masts, when they
rake forward, or stoop towards the head.

MATÉ _en fourche_, or _à corne_, masted for a boom and gaff; as a
schooner or sloop.

MATÉ _en galere_, to be masted as a galley, with only two masts
without any top-mast.

MATÉ _en semaque_, masted for a sprit which crosses the sail
diagonally.

MATELOT, a sailor, or mariner; a man before the mast.

MATELOTAGE, the hire, wages, or pay of seamen.

_Il est un bon_ MATELOT, he is an able seaman.

_Vaisseau_ MATELOT, a good company-keeper, or a ship that sails well,
and keeps her station in a fleet; also the ships, in a fleet of men
of war, which are appointed seconds to the admirals or commanding
officers.

MATELOTS-_gardiens_, the ordinary-men of a royal dock-yard, and its
harbour or dock, including also the carpenters and calkers appointed
to watch in the ships of war.

MATER, to fix or place the masts of a ship.

MATEREAU, a small mast, or end of a mast.

MATEUR, a mast-maker. See MAÎTRE-_mateur_.

MATURE, the art of masting ships; also a general name for the masts
themselves.

_La_ MATURE, the mast-shed, or the place where the masts are made.

MAY, a sort of trough bored full of holes, wherein to drain cordage,
when it is newly tarred.

MAUGERES, or MAUGES, the scupper-holes.

MECHE, the match by which a cannon is fired.

MECHE _de cabestan_, the middle-piece, or body of the capstern.

MECHE _de mât_, the main or middle-piece of a lower-mast, which is
composed of several pieces, as usual in many ships of war.

MECHE _du gouvernail_, the principal piece of a rudder.

MECHE _d’une corde_, the middle strand of a four stranded rope.

MEMBRES _de vaisseau_, the frames of a ship, or the pieces of which
the ribs are composed, as floor-timbers, top-timbers, and futtocks.

MER, the sea; whence,

_Pleine_-MER, full sea.

_Haute_-MER, high water. See MARÉE.

MER _sans fond_, a part of the sea where there is no anchoring-ground.

_La_ MER _à perdu_, the sea is fallen, it is falling-water.

_La_ MER _brise_, the sea breaks, or foams, by striking a rock or
shore.

_La_ MER _brûle_, the sea burns, as in a dark and tempestuous night.

_La_ MER _est courte_, the sea runs short, broken, or interrupted.

_La_ MER _est longue_, the sea runs long and steddy, or without
breaking.

_La_ MER _étale_, the sea is smooth, as in a calm.

_La_ MER _mugit_, the sea roars, as being turbulent.

_La_ MER _rapporte_, the spring-tides have begun, or commenced.

_La_ MER _roule_, the sea rolls.

_La_ MER _se creuse_, the sea rises and runs cross.

_La_ MER _va chercher le vent_, the wind rises against the sea.

_Il y à de la_ MER, the sea runs high. When the violence of the waves
are abated, they say, in a contrary sense, _Il n’y à plus de_ MER.

_Jetter à la_ MER, to throw overboard.

_Mettre à la_ MER, or _faire voiles_, to put to sea, or set sail.

_Tenir la_ MER, to keep the sea, or hold out in the offing.

_Tirer à la_ MER. See BOUTER _au large_.

_Recevoir un coup de_ MER, to ship a sea.

MERLIN, marline, or merline.

MERLINER _une voile_, to marle a sail to the foot-rope.

_Arbre de_ MESTRE, the main-mast of a row-galley.

METTRE _à bord_, to bring, or carry aboard.

METTRE _à la voile_, to get under sail, to set sail.

METTRE _un navire en rade_, to carry a ship into any road.

METTRE _à terre_, to carry, or put ashore, to disembark.

METTRE _la grande voile à l’échelle_, to get the main-tack down with a
passaree.

METTRE _les basses voiles sur les cargues_, to haul up the courses in
the brails.

METTRE _les voiles dedans_, METTRE _à sec, ou_ METTRE _à mâts & à
cordes_, to take in, furl, or hand all the sails.

METTRE _le linguet_, to paul the capstern, or put in the paul.

METTRE _un matelot à terre_, to set ashore one of the crew, to turn
adrift or maroon a sailor.

METTRE _un ancre en place_, to stow an anchor on the bow.

MEURTRIERES, _ou_ JALOUSIES, the loop-holes in a ship’s sides or
bulk-heads, through which they can fire musquetry on the enemy.

MI-_mat_. See HUNIER.

MINOT, _boute-dehors_, _defense_, the davit of a ship: also a
fire-boom.

MINUTE, a nautical, or astronomical mile.

MIRE _& coins de_ MIRE, the coins, or aiming wedges of a cannon.

_Prendre sa_ MIRE, to take aim with a cannon, to level, or point a
cannon, or other fire-arm, to its object.

MIRER, to loom, or appear indistinctly, as the land under a cloud on
the sea-coast.

MIROIR. See ECUSSON.

MISAINE, the fore-mast.

MISAINE, or _voile de_ MISAINE, the fore-sail.

MITRAILLES, langrage shot, or small pieces of iron, or old nails, with
which cannon are sometimes charged in a sea-fight.

MODELE. See GABARIT.

MOIS _de gages_, the monthly pay, or wages of a sailor.

MOLE _de port_, a pier, or mole-head, raised across the mouth of a
harbour, to break off the force of the sea.

MOLER _en pouppe, ou poger_, to bear away and bring the wind aft, in
the dialect of Provence and Italy.

MOLLIR, _une corde_, to slacken, douse, or ease off a taught rope.

MONSON, or MOUSON, a monsoon, or trade-wind of India.

MONTANS _de poulaine_, the timbers of the head, or upright rails,
which are usually ornamented with sculpture.

MONTANS _de voute_, the stern-timbers.

_Le_ MONTANT _de l’eau_, or _le flot_, flowing water, the flood tide.

MONTÉ, mounted, or equipped with a certain number of guns, or men; as,

_Vaisseau_ MONTÉ _de 50 ou 60 canons_, a ship mounting 50 or 60 guns.

_Vaisseau_ MONTÉ _de trois cent hommes_, a ship manned with three
hundred hands, or whose complement consists of three hundred.

MONTER _le gouvernail_, to hang the rudder.

MONTER _au vent_, to spring the luff, or haul the wind.

MONTURE, the arming a ship for war, or mounting her with cannon, and
other fire-arms, and manning her.

MOQUE, a heart, or dead-eye of a stay.

MOQUE _de civadiere_, a sprit-sail-sheet block.

MOQUE _de trélingage_, the dead-eye of a crow-foot.

MORDRE, to bite, or hold fast; understood of the claw or flook of an
anchor which is sunk in the ground.

MORNE, a name given in America to a cape or promontory.

MORTAISE, a hole or mortise, cut to receive the end of a piece of
timber, called the tenant or tenon.

MORTAISE _de gouvernail_, the hole in the rudder-head which contains
the tiller.

MORTAISE _de poulie_, the channel, or vacant space in a block formed
to contain the sheave.

MORTAISE _du mât de hune_, the fid-hole of a top-mast.

MORTE-_d’eau_, or MORTE-_eau_, nip tides, or neap-tides; also dead low
water.

MORTIER, a mortar, employed to throw bombs or carcases from a ketch.

MOUFFLE _de poulie_, the shell of a block. See ARCASSE.

MOUILLAGE, anchoring-ground.

_Mauvais_ MOUILLAGE, foul ground, bad anchor-ground, or foul bottom.

MOUILLE, let go the anchor! the order to let the anchor fall from the
cat-head to the bottom.

_Bien_-MOUILLÉ, well moored, or moored in a good birth and
anchor-ground.

_Vaisseau_ MOUILLÉ _à un ancre de flot, & un ancre de jussant_, a ship
moored with one anchor to the flood, and another to the ebb.

_Vaisseau_ MOUILLÉ _entre vent & marée_, a ship moored between wind
and tide.

MOUILLER, or MOUILLER _l’ancre_, to let go the anchor, to come to an
anchor, or simply, to anchor.

MOUILLER _à la voile_, to let go the anchor whilst the sails are yet
abroad.

MOUILLER _en croupiére_, to moor with a spring upon the cable, in
order to cannonade a fort, &c.

MOUILLER _en patte d’oie_, to moor with three anchors a-head, equally
distant from each other, and appearing like the foot of a goose.

MOUILLER _l’ancre de touei_, to moor with the boat, or to carry out an
anchor.

MOUILLER _les voiles_, to wet the sails; a practice usual in light
winds.

MOUILLER _par la quille_, an ironical expression to signify that a
ship is fast a-ground: Our seamen then say, every nail in her bottom
is an anchor.

MOULINET, a small windlass, as that of a long-boat, or lanch.

MOULINET _à bittord_, a spun-yarn-winch.

MOURGON, a diver, in the dialect of Provence. See PLONGEUR.

MOUSSE, _garçon be bord_, a ship-boy; one of the prentices, or
officers servants.

MOUTONNER, to foam; expressed of the waves in a tempest or turbulent
sea.

MOYEN-_parallel_, the middle latitude in navigation, or the parallel
that holds the middle place between the latitude departed from, and
the latitude arrived in.

MULET, a sort of Portuguese vessel with three masts, and lateen sails.

MUNITIONAIRE, an agent-victualler, or a contractor for sea provisions.

_Commis du_ MUNITIONAIRE. See COMMIS.

N.

NACELLE, a skiff, or small boat, without masts or sails, used to pass
a river.

NAGE, the row-lock of a boat. See also AUTARELLE.

NAGE _à bord_, come aboard with the boat! the order given to the
rowers in the longboat, to bring her aboard, or along-side.

NAGE _à faire abattre_, pull to leeward! the order to the rowers in a
boat, to tow the ship’s head to leeward.

NAGE _au vent_, pull to windward, or tow the ship to windward!

NAGE _de force_, pull chearly in the boat! hooroa in the boat!

NAGE _qui est paré_, pull with the oars that are shipped.

NAGE _sec_, row dry! the order to row without wetting the passengers.

NAGE _stribord, & scie bas-bord_, pull the starboard-oars, and hold
water with the larboard oars! the order given to turn the boat with
her head to the left.

NAGER, RAMER, or VOGUER, to row, or pull with the oars, in a boat or
small vessel.

NAGER _à sec_, to touch the shore with the oars in rowing.

NAGER _tant d’avirons par bande_, to row so many oars on a side.

NAGER _de bout_, to row standing, or with the face towards the boat’s
head.

NAGER _en arriere_, to back a-stern with the oars.

NAGER _la chaloupe à bord_, to row the long-boat aboard.

NATES, mats used to line the sail-room, bread-room, or the hold when a
ship is laden with corn, to preserve the contents.

NAVETTE, a small Indian vessel.

NAUFRAGE, shipwreck.

NAUFRAGÉ, shipwrecked.

NAVIGABLE, navigable, capable of navigation.

NAVIGATEUR, a mariner, or seaman.

NAVIGATION, the theory and practice of navigation.

NAVIGATION _impropre_, coasting, or sailing along shore.

NAVIGATION _propre_, the art of sailing by the laws of trigonometry.
See PILOTAGE.

NAVIGER, to sail, or direct a ship’s course at sea.

NAVIGER _par terre_, or _dans le terre_, to be ashore by the
dead-reckoning; to be a-head of the ship by estimation.

NAVIGER _par un grand cercle_, to sail upon the arch of a great
circle.

NAVIRE, a ship. See also VAISSEAU.

_Beau_ NAVIRE _en rade_, a good roader.

NEUVE, a sort of small flight, used by the Dutch in the
herring-fishery, and resembling a buss. See BUCHE.

NEZ, the nose, beak, or head of a ship.

NOCHER, a name formerly given to a pilot.

NOCTURLABE, a nocturnal.

NOIALE. See TOILE.

NOIÉ, an epithet which answers to clouded, or indistinct; being
expressed of an horizon, when it cannot be discovered by an
observer, when taking an altitude.

NOIRCIR, to blacken, or daub with a mixture of tar and lamp-black; as
the wales and black-strakes of a ship, the yards, cutwater, &c.

NOLIS, or NOLISSEMENT, a name given in Provence and the Levant to the
freight or cargo of a ship.

NON-_vue_, no sight of, out of sight; a phrase which implies the fog
or haze of the weather, that prevents a ship from discovering
contiguous objects, as the shore, rocks, &c.

NORD, the north, or north point.

NORD-EST, the north-east.

NORD-EST _quart à l’est_, north-east by east.

NORD-ESTER, to vary towards the east; expressed of the east-variation
of the compass.

NORD-OUESTER, to decline towards the west; spoken also of the
magnetical needle.

NOYALE. See NOIALE.

NOYÉ. See NOIÉ.

NUAISON, a trade-wind, or the period of a monsoon.

O.

OCCIDENT, or OUEST, the west.

OCEAN, a name generally given in France, to the Western, or Atlantic
Ocean.

OCTANT, the octant, or quadrant invented by Hadley.

OEIL, YEUX, _ou_ TROUS, the holes in the clews of a sprit-sail to let
out the water which falls into its cavity when the ship pitches.

OEIL de _bœuf_. See YEUX.

OEIL _de bouc_, a water-gall, or weather-gall.

OEIL _de pie_, or YEUX _de pie_, the eye-let holes wrought in the reef
of a sail, through which the points are reeved.

OEIL _de roue_, the hole in the truck, or wheel of a gun-carriage,
through which the axle passes.

OEILLET, an eye-splice on the end of any rope.

OEILLET _d’étai_, the eye of a stay which goes over the mast-head.

OEILLETS _de la tournevire_, the eyes in the two ends of a voyal,
which are lashed together with a laniard when the voyal is brought
to the capstern.

OEILS, the eyes, or hauses of a ship. See ECUBIERS.

OEUVRE-_mortes_, the dead-work of a ship, or all that part which is
above water, comprehending the fore-castle, quarter deck, and poop.

OEUVRE _vives_, the quick-work, or all that part of a ship which is
under water.

OEUVRES _de marée_, the graving, calking, or repairing a ship’s
bottom, when, having been laid on the ground, the tide has ebbed
from her, so as to leave the bottom dry.

OFFICIERS _bleu_. See BLEU.

OFFICIERS-_généraux_, the general officers in the French navy, as the
admirals, vice-admirals, rear admirals, and commodores.

OFFICIERS _de port_, the officers of a dock-yard, appointed to see
that the shipping are properly moored, masted, rigged, repaired,
calked, and otherwise equipped with whatever is necessary, according
to their destination.

OFFICIERS _de santé_, officers who superintend the affairs of the
quarantine in a port.

OFFICIERS-_majors_, the superior, or commissioned officers in a ship
of war, as the captain, lieutenants, and ensign.

OFFICIERS-_mariniers_, the mechanical or warrant-officers in a ship of
war, of which the principal are, the master, boatswain, gunner,
carpenter, and sail-maker; as distinguished from the military
officers, called _Officiers-majors_. See the preceding article.

O! _du navire, hola_! hoa the ship, a hoay! the manner of hailing or
calling to a ship whose name is not known.

O! _du Soleil Royal hola_! hoa, the Royal Sun ahoay!

O! _d’en haut_, yoa-hoa, aloft there! mast-head there! &c. the cry
from the deck to those who are aloft, to attend to some order.

O! _hisse, O! hale, O! saille, O! ride_, the method of singing out, as
a signal to hoist, haul, or rouse together, on a tackle or rope.

OINT, stuff, tallow, or such like material, used to pay the masts,
tyes of the top-sail-yards, &c.

OLOFÉE, the act of spring the luff, or of hauling close upon a wind.

ORAGE. See TEMPETE.

ORDRE _de bataille_, the line or order of battle in a naval
engagement.

ORDRE _de marche_, the order of sailing.

ORDRE _de retraite_, the order of retreat.

ORDRES _des vaisseaux_, the classes into which each rate of ships is
subdivided, in the French navy. See RANG.

OREILLE _de lievre_, a three-sided, or triangular sail; as the
stay-sails.

OREILLES _de l’ancre_, the broad parts of the fluke of an anchor.

ORGANEAU, the ring of an anchor. See ARGANEAU.

ORGUES, an organ, or machine, sometimes used in a sea-fight by
privateers: it contains several barrels of musketoons, or
small-arms, fixed upon one stock, so as to be all fired together.

ORIENTER _les voiles_, to trim the sails, or place them in the most
advantageous manner, to receive the wind, and accelerate the ship’s
course.

ORIN, the buoy-rope of an anchor.

ORSE, the larboard-side, in the dialect of Provence. Also the order to
luff.

ORSER, to row against the wind, or row head-to-wind. This is likewise
the language of the gallies.

ORTODROMIE, a course which lies upon a meridian or parallel.

OSSEC, the water-way, or well-room of a boat.

OSSIERES. See HAUSSIERES.

OUAGE, the track or wake of a ship. See HOUAICHE.

_Tirer en_ OUAICHE, to take a ship in tow a-stern when she is
disabled.

_Trainer un pavillon ennemi en_ OUAICHE, to drag the colours or ensign
of an enemy after the ship, so as to sweep the water therewith, as a
sign of victory.

OVERLANDRES, small vessels navigated on the Rhine and Meuse.

OUEST, or OCCIDENT, the west point of the compass or horizon.

OUEST-_nord-ouest, &c._ See ROSE _de vents_.

OURAGAN, an hurricane.

OUVERT, _etre ouvert_, to have any object open in sailing past it; or
to be opposite to any place, as a road, the entrance of a harbour,
or river, &c.

OUVERTURE, an opening, or valley between two hills, beheld from the
sea, and serving frequently as a land-mark.

OUVRIERS, the artificers, &c. in a dock-yard; or riggers of a ship.

OUVRIR, to open, or discover two objects separately at sea, when
sailing at some distance from them.

P.

PACFI, _ou_ PAFI, _le grand_ PACFI, the main-course, or main-sail.

_Le petit_ PACFI, _ou_ PACFI _de bourcet_, the fore-course or
fore-sail.

_Etre aux deux_ PACFIS, to be under the courses.

PACIFIER, to become calm; also to fall, or grow smooth, when spoken of
the sea.

PAGAIE, the paddle of a canoe.

PAGE _de la chambre du capitaine_, the cabin-boy.

PAGES. See MOUSSES _& garçons_.

PAILLES _de bittes_, long iron bolts thrust into holes in the bits, to
keep the cable from starting off.

PAILLOT, the steward-room in a row-galley.

PAIS _somme_, a shoal or shallow.

PALAMANTE, a general name given to the oars of a row-galley; which are
forty feet and six inches in length.

PALAN, a tackle of any kind. See ITAQUE and GARANT.

PALAN _à caliorne_, a three-fold tackle. See CALIORNE.

PALAN _à candelette_. See CANDELETTE.

PALAN _d’amure_, a tack-tackle.

PALAN _d’etai_, a stay-tackle.

PALAN _de misaine_, the fore-tackle.

_Grand_ PALAN, the main tackle.

PALANQUE, the order to hoist, bowce, or set taught upon a tackle.

PALANQUER, to hoist, or bowce upon a tackle.

PALANQUIN, a jigger-tackle, tail-tackle, or burton.

PALANQUINS _de ris_, the reef-tackles.

PALANQUINS _simples de racage_, the nave-lines.

PALANS _de bout_, the sprit-sail haliards.

PALANS _de canon_. See DROSSE _de canon_, & PALAN _de retraite_.

PALANS _de retraite_, the relieving tackle, &c. of the ordnance.

PALARDEAUX, plugs made to stop holes in any part of a ship; as
hause-plugs, shot-plugs, &c.

PALE, or PALME, the blade or wash of an oar.

PALÉAGE, the act of discharging any thing with shovels, baskets, &c.
as corn, salt, or such like material; for which employment the
ship’s crew can demand no additional pay. See also MANEAGE.

_En_ PANNE, lying-by, or lying-to with some of the sails aback.

_Mettre en_ PANNE, to lay a ship to, or turn the head to windward, in
order to lie by with some of the sails laid to the mast.

PANNEAU, a scuttle, or cover of any hatchway in the deck.

PANNEAU _à boîte_, the cover of a scuttle, with a border round its
edge.

PANNEAU _à vassole_, a great hatch, without a border.

_Le grand_ PANNEAU, the main hatch.

PANTAQUIERES, or PANTOCHERES, the cat-harpings, and crane lines of the
shrouds.

_En_ PANTENNE, fluttering or shivering in great disorder; expressed of
the sails, when out of trim, in a storm.

_Amener les voiles en_ PANTENNE, to haul down the sails with the
utmost expedition; as in a squall of wind.

PANTOIRES, pendants on the mast-heads or yard-arms, wherein to hook
preventer-shrouds, or yard-tackles.

PAPIERS _& enseignemens_, the papers of a ship, comprehending the
bills of lading, manifest, coquets, &c.

PAQUE-BOT, or PAQUET-BOT, a packet-boat, or packet-vessel; as those
which pass between Dover and Calais, &c.

_Faire la_ PARADE, to dress a ship, or to adorn her with a number of
flags, pendants, and other colours, which are displayed from
different parts of the masts, yards, and rigging.

PARADIS, or BASSIN, the basin of a dock, or an inner harbour.

PARAGE, a space of the sea appointed to cruise, or rendezvous in; also
a part of the sea near any coast.

_Vaisseau mouillé en_ PARAGE, a ship anchored in an open road, or in
the offing.

PARC, an inclosure for containing the magazines and store-houses in a
royal dock-yard.

PARC _dans un vaisseau_, a cot or pen, wherein cattle are inclosed in
a ship.

PARCLOSSES, limber-boards.

PARCOURIR _les coutures_, to survey or examine the seams of a ship’s
sides or decks, and caulk where it is found necessary.

PARÉ, ready, clear, or prepared for any thing.

PARE _à virer_, see all clear to go about! the order to prepare for
tacking.

PAREAU, or PARRE, a sort of large bark in the Indies, whose head and
stern are exactly alike, so that the rudder may be hung at either
end.

PARER _un cap_, to double a cape. See DOUBLER.

PARER _un ancre_, to prepare the anchor for letting it go.

_Se_ PARER, to clear for action, to prepare for battle.

PARFUMER _un vaisseau_, to smoke a ship, and sluice her with vinegar
between decks, in order to purify her, and expel the putrified air.

PARQUET, a shot-locker on the deck; also a place where shot are kept
on a gun-wharf. See EPITIÉ.

PARTAGER _le vent_, to share the wind with some other ship, or hold
way with her, without gaining or losing ground, or without
weathering, or falling to leeward.

PARTANCE, the time of departing, or sailing from a place; also a place
from whence a ship departs.

_Coup de_ PARTANCE, a signal-gun for sailing.

_Banniere de_ PARTANCE, the signal displayed for sailing.

PAS, a strait or narrow channel, as

PAS _de Calais_, the Streights of Dover.

PASSAGERS, the passengers of a ship.

PASSE, a canal, channel, or small streight.

PASSE-_port_, a sea-pass or passport. See CONGÉ.

PASSER, to perish, or be lost at sea; as by over-setting, or
foundering.

PASSER _au vent d’un vaisseau_, to pass to windward, or gain the wind
of another ship.

PASSER _sous le beaupré_, to pass under the bowsprit. This phrase,
which is usual amongst English as well as French seamen, implies to
go a-head of, or before a ship, and cross her course.

PASSE-_vogue_, the effort of rowing briskly, or very hard.

PASSE-_volant_, a false muster on the ship’s books; also a wooden gun,
which may terrify a ship at a distance. See FAUSSES-LANCES.

PATACHE, an armed tender, or vessel which attends a ship of war or
fleet; also a packet-boat.

PATACHE _d’avis_, an advice-boat. See FRÉGATE _d’avis_.

PATARAS, a preventer-shroud; also a spare-shroud, to be hooked on
occasionally.

PATARASSE, a calking iron.

PATRON, the master or commander of a merchant-ship, or boat, in the
dialect of Provence.

PATRON _de chaloupe_, the cockswain, or coxen, of a long-boat.

PATTE _d’oie_. See MOUILLER _en patte d’oie_.

PATTES _d’ancre_, the flukes of an anchor.

PATTES _d’anspects_, the claws of a gunner’s handspike.

PATTES _de bouline_, the bowline bridles.

PATTES _de voiles_, the tabling of the sails at their edges or
bolt-ropes.

PAVESADE, a quarter-cloth, or waist-cloth. See BASTINGAGE.

PAVILLON, the flag of a ship. Also a general name for colours.

PAVILLON _de beaupré_, the jack.

PAVILLON _de chaloupe_, the flag carried in a barge or long-boat, when
a superior officer is aboard.

PAVILLON _de combat_, the signal for engagement.

PAVILLON _de conseil_, the signal for a general council.

PAVILLON _de pouppe_, or _enseigne de pouppe_, a ship’s ensign.

PAVILLON _en Berne_. See BERNE.

_Baton de_ PAVILLON, the ensign staff, flag-staff, or jack-staff.

_Vaisseau_ PAVILLON, or simply, PAVILLON, the flag-ship.

_Amener le_ PAVILLON, to strike the flag or colours.

_Etre sous un tel_ PAVILLON, to be under such a flag, or commanding
officer.

_Faire_ PAVILLON _blanc_, to display a flag of truce.

PAUMET, a sail-maker’s palm.

PAVOIS, or rather PAVESADE. See PAVESADE and BASTINGAGE.

PAVOISER, to spread the waist-cloths.

PAUSES, a sort of long and wide boats used to embark merchandise at
Archangel, in Moscovy.

PECHER _un ancre_, to hook, and heave up from the bottom, another
anchor, with that of the ship, when several anchors lie near to each
other, as in a common road.

PEDAGNE, or PEDAGNON, the stretchers of a row-galley. See also
BANQUETTES.

PELLES, corn shovels, or ballast-shovels, used in trimming a ship’s
hold.

PENDANT, or FLAMME. See FLAMME.

PENDEUR, or PENDOUR, the pendant of any tackle, runner, &c.

PENDOUR _de caliorne_, the winding tackle-pendant.

PENDOURS _de balancines_, the spans of the lifts.

PENDOURS _de bras_, the brace-pendants at the yard-arms.

PENES, pitch-mops. See BATON _à vadel_.

PENNE, the peek of a mizen, or lateen sail.

PENTURE, a googing, or the eye of a clamp, fitted to receive a
goose-neck, or some bolt of iron which turns therein like a pivot in
its socket.

PENTURES _de gouvernail_, the googings of the rudder. See FERRURE _de
gouvernail_.

PEOTE, a light nimble Venetian wherry, used frequently as an
advice-boat, to carry expresses.

PERCEINTES. See PRÉCEINTES.

PERCEUR, a person who bores the holes for the tree-nails, or bolts, in
a ship’s-side.

PERROQUET, a top gallant-sail.

_Mettre les_ PERROQUETS _en banniere_, to let fly the top-gallant
sheets, as a particular signal to some ship in company.

PERROQUETS _volans_, flying-top-gallant-sails.

PERRUCHE, the mizen-top-gallant-sail.

PERTUIS, a dam, or channel of water, confined by a sluice.

PERTUISANE, a sort of pike or halbert, used to defend a ship from
being boarded.

PESER, to hang upon, or haul downward on any rope over-head.

PESER _sur un levier_, to heave, or purchase with a handspike.

PHAIOFNÉE, a sort of Japonese barge, or yacht, to carry the nobility,
&c.

PHARE, or _tour à feu_, a watch-tower, or light-house on the
sea-coast.

PIC _à pic sur son ancre_, close a peek upon the anchor.

PIECE, a cannon. See CANON.

PIECE _de charpente_, a general name for any pieces of timber properly
hewed, to be used in the construction of a ship.

PIECES _de chasse_, the chase-guns, or head-chases.

PIED _de vent_, a clear spot of the sky, appearing under a cloud to
windward.

PIED-_marin_, sea shoes; expressed of a man who has got sea-legs, or
who treads sure and firm at sea, as being accustomed thereto.

PIÉDROITS, the Samson’s posts, erected in the hold from the kelson to
the lower-deck hatchways, and notched with steps.

PIERRIER, a petrero, or small cannon, sometimes used in sea-fights,
and generally charged with musquet-shot, or swivel balls.

PIÉTER _le gouvernail_, to mark the stern-post with feet, in order to
discover how many feet of water the ship draws abaft.

PILIERS _de bittes_, the bitts of a ship.

PILLAGE, the plunder taken from any enemy after engagement.

PILON, or _petit écore_, a shore which is steep to, and but little
raised above the sea.

PILOTAGE, the navigating, conducting, or steering of a ship.

PILOTE, a sea-pilot, or the conductor of a ship’s course by the art of
navigation; also the master of a ship. See HAUTURIER.

PILOTE _côtier_, or PILOTE _de havre_, a coasting, or harbour pilot.
See LAMANEUR.

PILOTE _hardie_, a daring or enterprising pilot.

PILOTER, to pilot a ship into, or out of, a harbour or river.

PINASSE, a square-sterned vessel, called in England a bark.

PINASSE _de Biscaye_, a Biscayan barca-longo.

PINCEAU _à goudronner_, a tar-brush.

PINCES _de bois_, a sort of curved handspikes. See RENARD.

PINCER _le vent_. See ALLER _au plus pres_.

PINNULE, the sight vanes of any instrument, for observing or setting a
distant object at sea.

PINQUE, a pink, or narrow-sterned ship, with a flat floor.

PIPRIS, a sort of canoe used by the negroes in Guinea, and the Cape de
Verds.

PIRATE, a pirate, or free-booter; see also CORSAIRE.

PIRATER, to rob at sea; to infest or scour the sea as a pirate.

PIROGUE, an American canoe.

PISTON, the spear-box of a pump.

PITONS _à boucles_. See CHEVILLE _à boucles_.

PIVOT, an iron point which turns in a socket; as the foot of the
capstern.

PIVOT _de boussoule_, the brass center-pin of the compass.

PLAGE, a shallow or flat shore, without any capes or head-lands to
form a road or place of safety for shipping at anchor.

PLAIN, a flat, or shoal; whence,

_Aller au_ PLAIN, to run ashore.

PLANCHE, the gang-board of a boat.

_Mets la_ PLANCHE, the order to put out the gang-board from the boat’s
stern to the shore, to walk out upon.

PLAQUES _de plomb_, sheet lead, used for several purposes aboard-ship.

PLAT _de la varangue_, the flat or horizontal part of a floor-timber.

PLAT _de l’equipage_, or _un_ PLAT _des matelots_, a mess or company
of seven sailors who eat together. The word literally signifies a
bowl or platter, in which the whole mess eat at the same time.

PLAT _des malades_, the sick mess, under the care of the surgeon.

PLAT-_bord_, the gunnel, or gun-wale of a ship.

PLAT-_bord_ also means wash-board or weather-board.

PLAT-_bord a l’eau_, gunnel-in, or gunnel-to; expressed of a ship that
inclines so much to one side, as to make the gunnel touch the
surface of the water by crowding sail in a fresh wind.

PLATE-_bands d’assuts_, the clamps of a gun-carriage, which are used
to confine the trunnions therein.

PLATE-_forme de l’éperon_, the platform or grating within the rails of
the head.

PLATE-_formes_, an assemblage of oak-planks, forming a part of the
deck, near the side of a ship of war, whereon the cannons rest.

PLATINES _de lumiere_, the aprons of the cannons.

PLI _de cables_, a fake of the cable.

_Filer un_ PLI _de cable_, to veer away one fake of the cable.

_Vaisseau qui_ PLIE _le côté_, a crank ship.

PLIER, to bend or supple the planks of a ship by heat and moisture.

PLIER _le côté_, to lie over in the water, to heel extremely when
under sail.

PLIER _le pavillon_, PLIER _les voiles_, to gather up the fly of the
ensign, or furl the sails.

PLOC, the hair and tar put between the bottom planks of a ship and the
sheathing, to fill up the interval, and preserve the bottom from the
worms.

PLOCQUER, to apply the sheathing-hair to the ship’s bottom.

PLOMBER _un navire_, to try whether a ship is upright, or to what side
she heels, by a plumb-line and level.

PLONGEUR, a diver, whose employment it is to bring any thing up from
the bottom, as spunges, coral, &c.

PLONGER, to duck, or immerse any thing in the water; also to plunge or
dive into the water, &c.

PLUMET _de pilote_, or _panon_, a feather-vane, or dog-vane.

POGE, _ou_ POUGE, the order to put the helm a-weather, in order to
fill the sails, or bear away. This is the language of Provence. See
ARRIVE-_tout_.

POINT, a ship’s place, as pricked upon a nautical chart.

POINT _d’une voile_, the clew of a sail.

POINTAGE _de la carte_, the pricking of a course and distance upon the
chart, to discover the ship’s place.

POINTE, a point of land projecting into the sea; a low-cape, or
promontory.

POINTE _de l’éperon_, the beak of a prow, or cut-water.

POINTE _du compas_, a point of the magnetical compass.

POINTE _du nord, ou du sud, &c._ the north or south point.

POINTER, to direct or point a gun to its object.

POINTER _à couler bas_, to point a gun so as to sink a ship.

POINTER _à démater_, to point a gun so as to dismast a ship.

POINTER _à donner dans le bois_, to level the cannon so as to hull a
ship, or strike the hull.

POINTER _la carte_, to prick the chart. See POINTAGE.

POINTURE, the balance of a sail, or that part which is fastened by
balancing it in a storm; as the peek of the mizen, &c.

POITRINE _de gabords_, the filling, or convexity of a ship’s bottom,
as approaching the mid-ships from the stem and stern-post.

POLACRE, a polacre, or ship so called.

POLICE _d’assurance_, a policy of insurance.

POLICE _de chargement_. See CONNOISSEMENT.

POMMES, the trucks, or acorns placed on the flag-staffs, or spindles
of the mast-head.

POMMES _de girouettes_, the acorns placed over the vanes.

POMMES _de raque_, or _de racage_, see RAQUE.

POMME _de pavillon_, the truck placed on the top of the flag-staff, or
ensign-staff.

POMOYER, to under-run a cable with the long-boat.

POMPE, the pump of a ship.

_Affranchir, ou franchir la_ POMPE, to free the ship, by discharging
more water with the pumps than has entered by the leaks. See
AFFRANCHIR.

_A la_ POMPE, pump ship! the order to pump out the water from a ship’s
bottom.

_Charger la_ POMPE, to fetch the pump.

_Etre à une, ou à deux_ POMPES, to have one or both pumps constantly
employed to free the ship.

_La_ POMPE _est engorgée_, the pump is choaked or foul.

_La_ POMPE _est éventée_, the pump blows, or is split so as to be
rendered unserviceable.

_La_ POMPE _est haute, ou la_ POMPE _est franche_, the pump sucks, or
is dry.

_La_ POMPE _est prise_, the pump is fetched.

_La_ POMPE _se décharge_, the pump has lost water. See DÉCHARGE.

POMPE _à la Vénitienne_, a Venetian pump.

POMPE _de mer_. See TROMPE.

POMPE-_en bon etat_, POMPE _libre_, a good pump, or pump in good trim.

POMPES _à roue & à chaines_, chain pumps.

POMPES _du maître-valet_, hand-pumps, used for water casks, oil-casks,
wine-casks, &c.

PONENT, the west, in the language of Provence: also a name given to
the Western Ocean.

PONT, the deck of a ship.

PONT _à caillebotis, ou à treilles_, a grating-deck.

PONT _coupé_, a deck open in the middle, as in some small vessels that
have only part of a deck towards the stem and stern.

PONT _courant devant arriere_, a deck flush fore and aft.

PONT _de cordes_, a sort of netting to cover a ship’s waist, and
prevent the impression of boarders.

PONT _volant_, a spar-deck, or platform.

_Faux_-PONT, the orlop deck.

_Premier_-PONT, or _franc-tillac_, the lower, or gun-deck.

_Second_ PONT, the middle-deck of a ship with three decks, or the
upper deck of one with two decks.

_Troisieme_-PONT, the upper-deck of a ship with three decks.

PONTÉ, decked, or furnished with a deck; as opposed to undecked or
open.

PONTON, a pontoon, for careening or delivering ships; also a sort of
bridge of boats, composed of two punts, with planks laid between
them; likewise a ferry-boat.

PONTONAGE, the hire of a ferry-boat or ponton.

PONTONNIER, the master of a ponton, or lighterman.

PORQUES, riders.

PORQUES _acculées_, the after floor-riders.

PORQUES _de fond_, floor-riders.

_Allonges de_ PORQUES, futtock-riders.

PORT, a haven, port, or harbour.

PORT-_brute, ou havre brute_, a natural harbour, or port formed by
nature.

PORT _de vaisseau_, the burthen or tonnage of a ship.

PORT _de barre_, an harbour with a bar, that can only be passed at, or
near high-water.

PORT _d’entrée_, or PORTE _de tout marée_. See HAVRE.

_Avoir un_ PORT _sous le vent_, to have a harbour to leeward, or under
the lee.

_Fermer le_ PORTS, _ou_ PORTS _fermés_, to lay an embargo upon all the
shipping of a harbour. See ARRET.

PORTAGE, the space or room in a ship’s hold allowed to any officer,
&c. to contain his venture, or private trade.

PORTE-_bossoir_. See SOU-BARBE.

PORTE _d’écluse_, the flood-gates of a sluice.

PORTE _gargousse_. See LANTERNE _à gargousse_.

PORTE-_haubans, ou ecotards_, the channels, or chain-wales of a ship.

PORTELOTS, the thick stuff which encircles the side of a lighter under
the gunnel.

PORTE-_plein les voiles_, or simply, PORTE-_plein_! keep full! the
order to the man who steers, to keep the sails full, and prevent
them from shivering in the wind.

PORTE-_vergues_, or rather _herpes_, the rails of the head, reaching
from the cat-head towards the cut-water. See HERPES.

PORTE-_voix_, a speaking-trumpet.

PORTER, to sail, or conduit a ship.

PORTER _à route_, to stand onward, upon the course.

PORTER _au sûd, &c._ to stand to the southward, &c.

PORTEREAU, the flood-gate of a sluice.

POSTE, the quarters where the men are stationed in time of battle.

POSTILLON, an express-boat, or post-boat.

POT _à brai_, a pitch-pot.

POT-_à-feu_, a fire-pot, or stink-pot.

POT _de pompe_, the lower pump-box. See also CHOPINETTE.

POTENCE _de brinquebale_, the cheeks of the pump.

POUDRIER, an half-hour watch-glass.

POUGER, or _moler en pouppe_, to bear up, in the dialect of Provence.

POULAINE, _eperon_, the knee of the head, or cutwater.

POULAINES, the props which support a ship’s stem, when she is on the
stocks.

POULIE, a block of any kind to reeve a running rope through.

POULIE _coupée_, or _à dents_, a snatch block. See also GALOCHE.

POULIE _détropée_, a block shaken out of its strop.

POULIE _de grand drisse_, one of the main jear blocks.

POULIE _de guinderesse_, a top-block.

POULIE _de palan_, a tackle-block.

POULIE _d’itague du grand hunier_, the main-top-sail tye-block.

POULIE _double_, a double block.

POULIE _simple_, a single block.

POULIES _de caliornes_, winding tackle-blocks, or blocks furnished
with three sheaves.

POULIES _de drisse de misaine_, the fore jear-blocks.

POULIES _d’écoutes de hune_, top-sail-sheet-blocks, fitted also to
contain the lower-lifts.

POULIES _de retour d’écoutes de hune_, the quarter-blocks for the
top-sail sheets.

POUPPE, the after-parts of a ship, both above and below. See ARCASSE,
ARRIERE, DUNETTE, &c.

_Vaisseau à_ POUPPE _quarrée_, a square-sterned ship; such as are all
ships of war.

_Mettre vent en_ POUPPE, to bear away before the wind.

_Mouiller en_ POUPPE, to moor by the stern, or get out an anchor
a-stern.

_Vent en_ POUPPE, a stern-wind, or wind right aft.

POUSSE-_barre_! heave chearly! heave heartily! the order or
exhortation to those who heave at the capstern, to push forcibly on
the bars.

POUSSE-_pied_, or ACCON, a small boat used to catch shell-fish, &c.
See ACCON.

PRAME, a pram, lighter, or barge of burden.

PRATIQUE, in a naval sense, implies free intercourse or communication
with the natives of a country, after having performed quarantine.

PRÉCEINTES, the wales of a ship.

PRÉLART, or PRÉLAT, a tarpauling.

PRENDRE _chasse_. See CHASSER.

PRENDRE _hauteur_, to take the altitude of the sun, or a star. See
HAUTEUR.

PRENDRE _les amures_, to get aboard the tacks. See AMURER.

PRENDRE _terre_. See TERRE _& terrir_.

PRENDRE _vent devant_, to be taken with the wind a-head.

PRENDRE _un bosse_, to make sail, or clap on the stopper.

PRENDRE _un ris_, to take in a reef.

PRENEUR, _vaisseau_ PRENEUR, the vessel that has taken a prize.

PRES & _plein_, full and by! the order to the steersman to keep the
ship close to the wind, without shaking.

PRESENTER _le grande bouline_, to snatch the main-bowline, or put it
into the snatch-block.

PRESENTER _au vent_, to sail as the ship stems, without making
lee-way.

PRESSER, to press, or constrain into small compass; as cotton, wool,
or such like material.

PRETER _le coté_, to range abreast of a ship, in order to give her the
broadside. See EFFACER.

PREVOT _général de la marine_, a provost marshal of the marine, or
officer whose duty resembles that of the judge-advocate of naval
courts-martial.

PREVOT _marinier_, the swabber of a ship, who also chastises the
criminals, as being usually the most abandoned of the crew: this
part of his duty is performed in English ships by the boatswain.

PRIME _d’assurance_, insurance paid by the merchant for insuring the
ship’s cargo.

PRISE, a prize, or ship taken from the enemy at sea.

PROFIT, _avantureux_, the interest acquired by bottomry. See BOMERIE.

PROFONTIÉ, a ship that draws much water, or takes a large volume of
water to float her.

PROLONGER _un navire_, to lay a ship along-side of some other.

PROMONTOIRE, a cape, head-land, or fore-land.

PROUE, the prow of a ship, see AVANT.

_Donner la_ PROUE, to appoint the course, or rendezvous of the
gallies.

PROVISIONS, a general name for the provisions, and the warlike stores,
or ammunition of a ship.

PUCHOT. See TROMPE.

PUISER, to leak, or make water at sea.

PUISER _pour le bord_, to ship seas, or take in water, either over the
gunnel, or at the ports in the side.

PUITS. See ARCHIPOMPE.

PUY, a great depth of the sea on a level bottom.

Q.

QUAI, a wharf or key on the side of a harbour or river.

_Amarré à_ QUAI, _rangé à_ QUAI, moored along-side of the key or
wharf.

QUAIAGE, wharfage.

QUAICHE, a ketch, or ship so called.

QUARANTAINE, quarantine.

_Faire_ QUARANTAINE, to perform quarantine.

QUARANTENIER, a rope of the size of a rattling-line, used as a
lashing, &c.

QUARRÉ _de reduction_, see QUARTIER _de reduction_.

QUARRÉ _naval_, the naval square, a scheme drawn on a ship’s
quarter-deck, to represent the division of a fleet into three
columns, and exhibit the station of each particular ship in the
order of sailing; it is used to direct and regulate the movements of
each ship with regard to the rest, and preserve the whole fleet in
uniformity.

QUART _de rond_, _saloire_, _tamisaille_, the transom, upon which the
tiller traverses in the gun-room. See TRAVERSE.

QUART, the watch kept aboard ship, comprehending the time of its
continuance, and the people employed to keep it.

QUART _bon_, or _bon_ QUART, keep a good look out afore! look well out
afore there!

QUART _du jour_, the day-watch.

_Prendre le_ QUART, to set the watch.

_Au_ QUART, _au_ QUART! the watch, hoay! the starboard watch, hoay!
the manner of calling the watch to relief.

_Faire bon_ QUART _sur la hune_, to keep a good look-out in the tops.

_Le premier_ QUART, or QUART _de tribord_, the starboard-watch. See
TRIBORDAIS.

_Second_ QUART, or QUART _de bas-bord_, the larboard-watch. See
BASBORDAIS.

QUARTS _de vent_, the quarter-points of the compass, or those which
lie on each side of the cardinal and intermediate points, and are
distinguished in English by the word _by_; as N by E, N E by N, &c.

QUARTIER _Anglois_, or QUART _de nonante_, a Davies’s quadrant.

QUARTIER _de reduction_, a sinical quadrant, used by the French pilots
in working their days works, to discover the ship’s place.

QUARTIER-_maître_, an officer resembling the boatswain’s mate of an
English ship.

_Vent de_ QUARTIER, _ou vent largue_, a large, or quartering wind.

QUERAT, the planks of a ship’s bottom, comprehended between the keel
and the wales.

QUETE, the rake of a ship abaft, or the rake of the stern-post.

QUEUE _d’une armée navale_, the rear of a fleet of ships of war.

QUEUE _de rat_, tapering to the end; expressed of such ropes as are
pointed, or tapering towards the end, as the tacks, &c.

QUILLE, the keel of a ship.

QUILLE-_fausse_. See FAUSSE-QUILLE.

QUINTAL, an hundred weight.

R.

RABANER, to fit a sail with rope-bands and earings, ready for bending
to its yard.

RABANS, a general name given to earings, gaskets, knittles, and
rope-bands.

RABANS _d’avuste_, a sort of braided knittles, like those formed to
point a rope.

RABANS _de ferlage_, the gaskets employed to furl the sails to their
yards.

RABANS _de pavillon_, the rope-band of a flag or ensign.

RABANS _de pointure_, the head-earings, or reef-earings of a sail.

RABANS _de têtiere_, the rope-bands of any sail.

RABATTUES, the intervals between the drift-rails of a ship; this term
is peculiar to ship-wrights.

RABLES, the floor-timbers of a boat.

RABLURE, the rabbit or channel cut in the keel, stem, and stern-post,
to receive the edges of the garboard-streaks, and the ends of the
planks afore and abaft.

RACAGE, a parrel with ribs and trucks.

RACAMBEAU, a traveller, or small iron ring, which sometimes encircles
the mast of a long-boat, serving as a parrel to the yard or gaff.

RACCOMMODER, to repair or refit a ship’s rigging. See RADOUBER.

RACHE _de goudron_, the dregs of bad tar.

RACLE, or GRATOIR, a scraper, used to clean a ship’s side, deck, or
bottom.

RACLE-_double_, a two-edged, or double scraper.

RACLE-_grande_, a large scraper, used to clean the ship’s bottom under
water.

RACLE-_petite_, or _petit_ RACLE, a small scraper, employed to scrape
the planks, &c. above the water.

RACLER, to scrape the sides, &c. of a ship.

RADE, a road, or road-stead.

RADE _foraine_, a free road, or road where ships of all nations are
permitted to anchor.

RADEAU, a raft.

RADER, to arrive in a road.

RADOUB, the repair of a ship in a dock-yard, &c. or the employment of
the artificers to close the breaches in her hull with planks,
timber, or sheet-lead; as also to stop the leaks by calking, and pay
the bottom with stuff.

RADOUBER, to repair a ship, or give her a repair.

RAFFALES, or RAFFALS, sudden and violent squalls of wind.

RAFRAICHIR _le canon_, to cool or refresh a cannon in battle, as with
a wet-spunge, sometimes dipped in vinegar.

RAFRAICHIR _la fourrure_, to freshen the hause.

_Le vent se_ RAFRAICHIR, the wind freshens, or increases.

RAFRAICHISSEMENT, a supply of fresh provisions of all species.

RAISONNER _à la patache_, or _à la chaloupe_, to render an account of
a voyage to a visiting boat, when arrived near any port, in order to
obtain permission to enter the harbour.

RALINGUER, _Mettre en_ RALINGUE, or _tenir en_ RALINGUE, to shiver a
sail in the wind. See FASIER.

RALINGUES, the bolt-ropes of a sail.

_Mets en_ RALINGUE, or _fais_ RALINGUER! luff her up in the wind,
shake her up in the wind, let the sails touch! the order to the
helmsman to steer the ship so as to let the sails shake with their
edges to the wind.

RALLIER _un navire au vent_, to bring a ship to the wind after having
yawed to leeward.

_Se_ RALLIER, to approach any object at sea.

RAMBADES, two posts or platforms in the fore-part of a galley, whereon
the musketeers stand to fire.

RAMBERGE, a sort of packet-boat, advice-boat, or tender.

RAME, an oar.

_Plat_, or _pale de la_ RAME, the blade, or wash of an oar.

RAMER. See NAGER.

RAMEUR, a rower.

RANG, the rate of ships of war. As the division of the French navy
into classes or orders differs from the arrangement of the English
fleet, it appears necessary to mark that difference in this place.

The principal French ships of war are divided into three rates, each
of which is subdivided into two orders. All the inferior ships,
which are not comprehended in those rates and orders, are called
frégates and _corvettes_. See FRÉGATE, &c.

A ship of the first order, of the first rate, carries from 110 to 120
guns.

Ships of the second order, of the first rate, carry from 110 to 90
guns.

Ships of the first order, of the second rate, carry from 90 to 74 guns
upon three decks.

Ships of the second order, of the second rate, carry from 74 to 60
guns upon two decks, with the quarter-deck and fore-castle.

Ships of the first order, of the third rate, carry from 60 to 50 guns
upon two decks, &c.

Ships of the second order, of the third rate, which are now generally
called _frégates_, carry from 50 to 46 guns upon two decks, &c.

The _frégates_ from 46 to 32 guns, have sometimes two tiers of cannon
complete; but all those from 36 to 20, have in general but one tier
of cannon, the rest being carried on the quarter-deck and
fore-castle.

RANG _de rameurs_, a bank of rowers, or bank of oars.

RANGER _la côte_, or RANGER _la terre_, to coast, or range
along-shore.

Ranger _le ven_t, to claw the wind, or haul close to the wind.

_Le vent se_ RANGE _de l’avant_, the wind hauls forward; the wind
heads us, or takes us a-head.

RANGUE! stretch along, or, clap on here many hands! the order to the
sailors to range themselves along, to haul upon any rope, tackle,
&c.

RAPIDE, a fresh in a river.

RAQUE, a general name for trucks, but particularly the trucks of a
parrel. See also _Pomme de_ RACAGE.

Raque _de haubans_, a truck lashed to the shrouds, through which a
running rope is reeved.

Raque _encouchée_, a truck encircled with a notch, to receive the
spun-yarn by which it fastened to a shroud, stay, or back-stay.

Raque _gougée_, a truck hollowed on one side, so as to enclose the
rope to which it is fastened.

RAQUÉ, chafed, or rubbed, expressed of a cable, or other rope, which
is galled on the outside for want of service.