ARMADILLE, a small squadron of Spanish frigates of War, usually
employed to guard the coast of New Spain, and prevent illicit trade.
ARMATEUR, a privateer or cruiser. See CORSAIRE.
_Vaisseau_ ARMÉ _en guerre_, a merchant-vessel fitted for war, and
furnished with a letter of marque to cruise against the enemy.
ARMÉE _navale_, a naval armament, a fleet of ships of war.
ARMEMENT, the equipment or fitting out of a ship of war, or
merchantman, for a cruise, or voyage.
_Etat d’_ARMEMENT, a list of the officers intended to serve in a
squadron of men of war.
ARMER _les avirons_, to ship the oars ready for rowing.
ARMER _un vaisseau_, to arm a ship for war, or equip her for a voyage.
ARMURIER, the armourer of a vessel of war.
ARONDELLES _de mer_, a general name for small vessels, as brigs,
settees, tartans, &c.
ARQUÉ, broken-backed or hogged, drooping at the stem and stern.
ARRET _de vaisseaux_ & _fermetures de port_, an embargo laid on
shipping,
ARRIERE, abaft; the hind part of a ship.
_Faire vent_ ARRIERE, to bring the wind aft, or astern.
ARRIERE-GARDE _d’une armée navale_, the rear-division of a fleet of
vessels of war.
ARRIMAGE, the stowage or disposition of the cargo in the hold.
ARRIMER, to stow the hold, to trim the ship by her stowage. Whence
ARRIMEUR, a stower.
ARRISER, or AMENER. See AMENER.
ARRIVAGE, an arrival of merchandise in a port or haven.
ARRIVE, the order to put the helm a-weather, bear away, or edge
farther to leeward.
ARRIVE _tout_, hard a-weather. The order to put the helm close to
windward.
_N’_ARRIVE _pas_, don’t fall off; loft.
ARRIVÉE, the movement of veering or bearing away.
ARRIVER, to bear away before the wind. Hence
ARRIVER _sur un vaisseau_, to bear down on a ship.
ARRIVER _beaucoup_, to veer apace.
ARTILLÉ, or ARTILLIÉ, mounted with cannon: as, _vaisseau_ ARTILLIÉ _de
trents pieces_, a ship mounting thirty guns.
ARTIMON, the mizen-mast, also the mizen itself.
ASPECT, the looming or perspective view of the land from the sea.
ASSECHER, _etre à sec_, to appear dry, as a rock or shore when the
tide of ebb has retreated from it.
ASSEMBLER, to unite the several pieces of a ship, as by rabbiting,
scarfing, scoring, tenanting, &c.
ASSUJETTIR, to fix a piece of timber firmly in its place, in
shipbuilding.
ASSURANCE, a contract or policy of insurance.
_Pavillon d’_ASSURANCE, a flag or signal of peace.
ASSURER, to insure a vessel against the dangers of the sea, &c.
ASTROLABE, a nocturnal.
A TRAIT & _à rame_, to go with sails and oars.
ATTEINDRE, to join a ship at sea, either by accident or pursuit.
ATTELIER _de Construction_, a shed or store-house to contain
shipwrights tools; a loft or work-house near the dock; a wharf, or
place for building sea-vessels.
ATTÉRAGE, a land-fall. Whence
ATTERIR, to make the land.
ATTERRISSEMENT, a mound or bank of earth thrown up near the margin of
a river, by violent freshes or storms.
ATTOLONS, a cluster of keys or small islands, a chain of rocks.
ATTRAPE, the pendant or guy of the relieving tackle used in careening
a ship. See CORDE _de retenue_.
AVAL. See AVAU _l’eau_.
AVANT, forward, afore, ahead.
_Etre de l’_AVANT, _se mettre de l’_AVANT, to be in the van of, or
ahead in, a fleet.
_Le vaisseau est trop sur l’_AVANT, the vessel is too much by the
head.
AVANTAGE, the head, with its cutwater or prow. See EPERON.
AVANTAGE _du vent_, to be to windward of some other ship.
AVANT-GARDE, the van of a fleet of vessels of war.
AVARIE, the damage or loss which a ship may have sustained, by
accidents or bad weather, in her voyage; also the duty paid for
anchoring in a port.
AVASTE, avast.
AVAU _l’eau_, to sail with the tide, to tide it up or down a river.
AUBALÉTRIERES, a sort of stanchions or pillars erected on the sides of
a row-galley, to support the rails of the gang-way, and form the
bed-place of a soldier.
AUBIER, the sap of timber.
AUBINET, or _Saint_ AUBINET, no man’s land.
AUGE _à goudron_, a tar-bucket.
AVIRON, an oar. See RAME.
AVITAILLEMENT, or AVICTUAILLEMENT, the sea-victualling or provision of
a ship.
AVITAILLEUR, or AVICTUAILLEUR, an agent-victualler, or contractor for
supplying a ship with sea-provisions.
AU LOF, luff. The order from the pilot to steer nearer the wind. See
OLOFÉE.
AUMONIER, the sea-chaplain.
AVOCAT _Fiscal_. See FISCAL.
AVOIER, to rise, to freshen; expressed of the wind when it has
changed.
AVOIR _gagné_, to have fore-reached, or gained upon; spoken of a
vessel, relatively to some other in sight.
AVOIR _le pied marin_, to have good sea-shoes aboard, to walk firm in
a ship like a sailor.
AVOIR _pratique_, to have pratic, or free intercourse with the
natives, after having performed quarantine.
AVOIR _vent arriere_, to have the wind aft.
AVOIR _vent de bout_, to have the wind right an end, or a head. See
ALLER _de bout_, &c.
AU _plus pres de vent_, close upon a wind. See ALLER _au plus pres_,
&c.
AUSSIERE, or HAUSIERE, a hawser or small cable.
AUTAN, a gust or squall of wind from the south.
AUTARELLES, the thoules or rowlock-pins of a galley.
AVUSTE, or AJUSTE, a bend, or knot, by which the ends of two ropes are
fastened together.
AVUSTER, to bend or tie two ends of ropes together.
B.
BABORD. See BAS-BORD.
BAC, a large flat-bottomed ferry-boat, for horses, carriages, &c.
BAC _a naviger_, a punt, or small boat, used by the shipwrights to
carry tar, pitch, &c.
BACALAS, cleats of various kinds.
BACALIAU, a name given to dried salt cod-fish.
BACASSAS, a sort of lighter, somewhat resembling an American periagua.
BACHE, or BACHOT, a yawl or wherry.
BACLAGE, a tier of boats, moored along-side of each other.
BACLER _les ports_, to fortify harbours by fixing chains or booms
athwart their entrances; also to bar in the gun ports of a ship.
BAGUE, a small grommet, or wreath of an eye-let hole in a sail.
BAIE. See BAYE.
BAILLE, an half-tub used to contain shot, grenades, matches, &c. also
to hold water for cooling the guns in time of action, or to freshen
the salt provisions.
BAJOU, or BAJON, a sort of tiller.
BAISSER, to fall down with the tide, to drive or be carried along,
according to the course of the stream.
BAISSER _le pavillon_. See AMENER.
BAISSER _les voiles_, to lower the sails.
BALAI _du ciel_, the sweeper of the sky; a name given by sailors to
the north-west winds of America, which always bring clear weather.
BALANCIER _de lampe_, the rings by which the lamp is slung in the
binacle.
BALANCIERS _de compas_, or _de boussole_, the gimbals of a
sea-compass, by which it is hung in equilibrio.
BALANCINES, or VALANCINES, lifts of the yards.
BALANCINE _de chaloupe_, the topping-lift of a boat.
BALANT, the bight or slack part of a rope, also the part which is
unemployed.
BALAST. See LEST.
BALAYEUR _d’un navire_, the swabber or sweeper of a ship, usually
called captain-swabber.
BALCONS, the galleries framed in the stern or quarter of a great ship.
BALISE, a sea-mark, the beacon or buoy of a shoal or dangerous
channel.
BALOIRES, a name sometimes given to water-lines, and to horizontal
ribbands. See LIGNE _d’eau_.
BALON, a sort of galley or barge of Siam.
BANC, a sand-bank; also the bench, thwart, or beam of a boat.
BANC _à s’asseoir_, the seats or benches placed in the stern-sheets of
a boat or small vessel.
BANC _à coucher_, a sort of folding bed-stead, or settee-bed.
BANCS _de rameurs_, the thwarts or seats of the rowers in a galley or
row-boat.
BANCHE, a ridge or reef of rocks, under the surface of the water.
BANDE, the side of a ship; also a coast, or the side of a river. Hence
BANDE _du nord_, the northern shore, &c.
_Avoir son vaisseau à la_ BANDE, to have his ship laid on the careen.
BANDE _de sabords_, a tier of gun-ports on one side of a ship.
BANDER _une voile_, to line a sail at the edges in order to strengthen
it.
BANDIERES, the flag or colours: this term is peculiar to the gallies.
BANDINS, a sort of stancheons or small pillars, ornamented with
sculpture, and used to support the after-canopy or awning of a
row-galley.
BANDOULIERE, a cartridge-box for musquetry, used by the marines or
others who fight with small arms.
BANNEAU. See BOUÉE.
BANNIERE, a Levantine term for the colours. See BANDIERE.
BANQUE, a banker, or vessel which fishes on the banks of Newfoundland,
&c.
BANQUETTES, the stretchers of a galley or row-boat.
BAPTEME, the ceremony of ducking a sailor the first time he passes the
line, or tropics, from which he may be redeemed by paying a certain
forfeit. Hence
BAPTISER, to duck, &c.
BAPTISER _un vaisseau_, to give a ship her name at the time of
launching.
BARAT, or BARATERIE, the forfeiture or fine paid by the master of a
ship and his crew, for embezzling part of the cargo, or suffering it
to be damaged by neglect of stowage, &c.
BARBE. See SAINTE-BARBE.
BARBES _d’un vaisseau_, the entrance or fore-foot of a ship.
BARBEYER, to touch or shiver; expressed of a sail when shaking in the
wind.
BARCES, a short cannon, resembling a falconet, formerly used at sea.
BARCO-LONGO, a Spanish coasting-boat.
BARDIS, water-boards or weather-boards.
BARDIS also implies the partitions occasionally formed in the hold to
separate different species of grain, when the ship is laden
therewith, &c.
BARGE, an old word for skiff or yawl.
BARIL, BARILLAGE, BARIQUE, small casks of different sizes.
BARIL _de poudre_, a powder cask, containing an hundred pounds of
gun-powder.
BARILLARD, the steward, or officer who has charge of the wine and
water on board of a vessel. This term is peculiar to the galleys.
BARIQUES _a feu_, or _foudroyantes_, thundering-barrels, or casks
which contain the fire-pots in a fire ship.
BARQUE, a settee, or three-masted vessel with lateen sails.
BARQUE _à eau_, a watering-boat, or vessel employed for carrying
water.
BARQUE _d’avis_, an advice-boat.
BARQUE _de descente_, a sort of lighter.
BARQUE _de vivandier_, a provision-boat, a bumboat.
BARQUE _droite_, the order to trim the boat upright, when she heels.
BARQUE _en fagot_, a boat in frame, an assemblage of all the pieces of
a boat, ready formed and put on board a ship, in order to build her
at the place where she may be required.
BARQUE _longue_, or _double chaloupe_, a sort of pinnace, or large
long-boat.
BARQUEROLES, BARQUETTE, or BARCANETTE, a sort of passage boats.
BARRE, the bar of a harbour; also a chain of rocks.
BARRE _à bord_, hard over; the order to put the helm close to the
ship’s side.
BARRE _d’arcasse_, a transom. See LISSE _de hourdi_.
BARRE _de gouvernail_, the tiller of the helm.
BARRE _de gouvernail toute à bord_, the whole force of the helm when
the tiller is hard a-starboard, or hard a-port.
_Change la_ BARRE, the order to the steersman to shift the helm.
_Pousse la_ BARRE _à arriver_, no nearer, put the helm a-weather.
_Pousse la_ BARRE _à venir au vent_, luff, or keep your luff.
BARRE _de pompe_, the pump-spear.
BARRE _de pont_, the deck-transom, parallel to the wing-transom.
BARRER, to secure; as, BARRER _un port_, to secure or defend a
harbour, by fixing a boom across the mouth of it.
BARRES, the booms or chains fixed across a harbour, to secure it from
the assaults of an enemy.
BARRES _de cabestan_, the bars of the crab or capstern.
BARRES _de contre-arcasse_, or _sous-barres d’arcasse_, the lower
transoms.
BARRES _d’écoutille_, the hatch-bars.
BARRES _de hune_, _barreaux_, or _tesseaux_, the frames of the
cross-trees and tressel-trees.
BARRES _de panneaux d’écoutille_, the carlings, or ledges placed
athwart under the hatchways.
BARRES _de porte_, the gun-port bars, by which their covers are
fastened in.
BARRES _de virevaut_, the hand-spikes, or bars of the windlass.
BARRILLARD. See BARILLARD.
BARROTE, full to the beams; an epithet given to a vessel which is
laden up to the beams of her deck. Whence
BARROTER, to lade a ship, &c.
BARROTS, the beams of the higher decks.
BARROTINS, ledges, or small spars, placed between the beams.
BARROTINS _de caillebotis_, ledges of the gratings.
BARROTINS _d’écoutilles_, the spurs of the beams, or the pieces which
are joined to the beams to fortify the deck a-breast of the
hatchways.
BAS _de soie_, iron-garters; a cant term applied to bilboes or
fetters.
BAS _du vaisseau_, the lower parts of a ship.
BAS _le pavillon_, haul down the colours.
BASBORD, the larboard or left side of a ship.
_Vaisseau de_ BASBORD, a low-built vessel, whose deck extends not to
her whole length.
BASBORD _tout_, hard a-port; the order to put the helm close to the
larboard side.
BASBORDES or BASBORDUIS, the larboard-watch.
BASE _des sabords_, the plank between the lower edges of the gun-ports
and the wale.
BAS-FOND, a shoal or shallow.
BASSE, or BATURE, a ridge of rocks, sand-banks, &c. with breakers.
BASSE _eau_, low-water, the last of the ebb.
BASSES _voiles_, the courses, or principal lower sails, of a ship.
BASSIN, a basin or bason; also a small harbour within a larger one.
BASTARD _de racage_, the parrel-rope.
BASTARDE, the largest sail of a galley, which is only carried in fair
weather and light winds.
BASTARDES, or BATARDELLES, square-sterned row-gallies.
BASTINGUAGE, painted quarter-cloths, or waist-cloths; also the
quarter-nettings, &c.
BASTUDE, a peculiar sort of fishing-net.
BATAILLE _navale_, a general or particular sea fight.
BATARDEAU, a sort of dam.
BATAYOLLES, the quarter-stanchions, or the stanchions which support
the rails of the waist and quarter.
BATAYOLETTES, small stanchions, used to sustain the awnings.
BATEAU, a general name for several kinds of boats; as
BATEAU _délesteur_, a ballast-boat, or lighter.
BATEAU _pêcheur_, a fishing-boat, &c.
BATELÉE, the lading, or number of passengers, to be carried in a boat.
BATELIERS, the boat-men, the wherry-men.
BATIMENT, a vessel or small ship of any kind.
BATON _astronomique_, Jacob’s staff; an instrument formerly used for
taking altitudes at sea.
BATON _à meche_, a lint-stock. See Boute-feu.
BATON _de flamme_, the stick which spreads the inner part of a
pendant.
BATON _de giroüette_, the spindle upon which the vane turns, at the
mast-head.
BATON _de justice_, a cobbing-board.
BATON _de pavillon_, or _d’enseigne_, the flag-staff, or ensign-staff.
BATON _de vadel_, or _de guispon_, the handle of a long tar-brush, or
pitch-mop.
BATONNÉE _d’eau_, the quantity of water thrown out by the pump at each
stroke of the brake or handle.
BATTANT _de pavillon_, the fluttering or waving of an ensign, as it
flies in the wind.
BATTERIE, the whole range of cannon placed on both sides of any one
deck in a vessel of war,
BATTERIE _& demie_, a deck and a half of cannon; spoken of a frigate
which carries cannon on her upper-deck and quarter-deck only.
_Mettez la_ BATTERIE _de hors_, run the guns out.
_Mettez la_ BATTERIE _dedans_, run in the guns.
BATTRE _aux champs_, to found a march or chase at sea.
BATTRE _à Diane_, to beat a reveille on the drum, as at day-break.
BATTRE _la marche_, to give the signal for sailing.
BATTU, weather-beaten, shattered by a storm, or disabled in battle.
BATTURE. See BASSE.
BAU, abeam of the lower-decks.
BAU _de dale_, the hindermost or aftmost beam.
BAU _de lof_, the foremost beam in a ship.
BAU-_maître_, or _Maître_-BAU, the midship-beam, or the beam which is
placed at the extreme breadth.
BAUX-_faux_, or _Faux_-BAUX, beams of the orlop.
BAUDET, a sawyer’s frame, horse, or tresle.
BAUQUIERES, the clamps, or inner planks, by which the beams of a ship
rest upon her sides.
BAYE, a bay, or bight.
BAYES, or BAIES, _d’un vaisseaux_, the holes in the deck through which
the masts are let down, called also the partners.
BEAUPRÉ, the bowsprit. Whence
_Petit_ Beaupré, the jib-boom, or sprit-sail top-mast.
BEAUPRÉ _sur pouppe_, close behind; spoken of one ship which is so
near to the stern of another, in chase or otherwise, that the
bowsprit of the former hangs over the stern of the latter.
BEC _de corbin_, a caulker’s sharp iron, or instrument, with which he
cuts the old oakum out of a seam.
BÉLANDRE, a small vessel, carrying about eighty tons, and usually
navigated by three or four men. This is nowise like the English
bilander.
BELLE, the main-deck, or waist. See EMBELLE.
BERCEAUX. See BIGOT.
BERCHE. See BARCES.
BERGE, a bold shore; also an artificial mound, or rampire, on the
banks of a river, to prevent it from overflowing.
BERNE, a waft of the ensign.
_Mettre le pavillon en_ BERNE, to hoist the ensign with a waft.
BESSON, the arching or convexity of the beams and decks. See TONTURE.
BESTION, the head, or ornamental figure, on the prow of a ship.
BIDON, or CANETTE, a cann.
BIGOTS, the ribs of a parrel. See RACAGE.
BIGUES, certain props, or shoars, let into the ports of a ship, to
bear her up when she rests upon the ground; also the masts of a
sheer-hulk.
BILLE, the beckets of the tacks and sheets.
BILLER, to fasten a rope to a boom, in order to ride or tow a boat.
BILLOTS, dead-wood, or short pieces of timber laid upon the keel,
between the crotches, afore and abaft. See CONTRE-QUILLE.
BISCUIT, biscuit, sea-bread.
BISE, _vent de nord-nord-est_, the north-north-east wind.
BISTORD, spun-yarn.
BISTORD _de trois fils_, three-yarn spun-yarn.
BITTES, the bits. Whence
BITTER _le cable_, to bit the cable.
BITTON, a post fixed on a wharf, or pier, whereon to fasten a cable.
BITTONS, or TAQUETS, the top sail-sheet bits.
BITTURE, a range of the cable drawn upon the deck, ready for bitting.
BLEU, a temporary or acting officer, who performs the duty of another
while sick or absent.
BLIN, a machine used to drive the wedges under a ship’s bottom, when
she is to be launched.
BLOCQUER, or BLOQUER. See PLOCQUER.
BOIS, wood or timber.
BOITE _du gouvernail_, the rudder-case, or the box placed above the
rudder-head, upon deck, through which the tiller passes.
BOMBARDE, a bomb-vessel, a ketch.
BOMBÉ, incurvated; an epithet given by shipwrights to crooked timber,
fit for knees, crotches, or standards.
BOMERIE, bottomry.
BON-FRAIS, a fresh of wind, or fresh gale.
BONNACE, calm weather, with a smooth sea.
BONNE _de nage_, swift of rowing, a fine rower.
BONNE-VOGLIE, a volunteer-rower in the gallies.
BONNEAU, a buoy. See BOUÉE and ORIN.
BONNETTE, the bonnet of a sail.
BONNETTE _lardée_. a bag or basket charged with cinders, ashes, and
chopped oakum, to be used in the act of FOTHERING, which see.
_Lasser la_ BONNETTE, to fasten the bonnet of a sail to its principal
part.
BONNETTES, _en étui_, a general name for all studding-sails.
BON-TOUR, a favourable swing or turn; expressed of a ship when she
keeps her hawse clear by winding the right way.
BORD, board, or aboard.
_Renverser_, _tourner_, _changer le_ BORD, to veer or tack.
_Rendre le_ BORD, to anchor, to come to an anchor.
BORD _à bord_, along-side; spoken of two ships lying near to each
other.
BORD _allongé_, or _qui allonge_, a-long board; understood of a vessel
plying to windward.
BORD _à terre_, BORD _au large_, standing in, or off, shore.
BORD _de la mer_, the sea-coast or shore.
BORD _sur bord_, tack for tack, hank for hank.
_Faire un_ BORD, to make a tack.
_Bon_ BORD, a good board.
_Courir même_ BORD _que l’ennemi_, to stand on the same tack with the
enemy.
BORDAGE, the planks of a ship’s side. Hence
_Franc_ BORDAGE, the outside planks.
BORDAGES _de fond_, the planks of the bottom or floor.
BORDAGES _pour recouvrir les ponts_, the planks of the decks.
BORDAYER, to advance to windward by boards, or by tacking.
BORDE _au vent, &_ BORDE _sous le vent_, haul aft the sheets.
BORDÉE, a board or tack; also a watch of part of the crew.
_Faire la grande_ BORDÉE, to set a watch of half the ship’s crew, when
in any dangerous road, usually called the sea-watch.
_Faire la petite_ BORDÉE, to set the quarter-watch.
BORDÉE _de canon_, all the guns on one side of a ship, usually called
a broadside.
_Envoyer une_ BORDÉE, _donner la_ BORDÉE, to fire the broadside into
an enemy.
BORDER, to plank a ship, or lay on her outside planks; also to stand
towards, examine, or observe the motions of an enemy at sea.
BORDER _& brasser au vent_, to trim the sails by the wind.
BORDER _à quein_, to plank a ship with clench-work, or plank over
plank.
BORDER _en louvelle_, to lay on the planks level, or with their
surfaces even.
BORDER _l’artimon_, to haul the mizen-sheet flat aft, or close aft.
BORDER _les avirons_, to ship the oars ready for rowing.
BORDER _les écoutes arrieres_, to haul aft both sheets of a sail, for
going afore the wind.
BORDER _les écoutes tout plat_, to tally the sheets flat aft.
BORDER _un vaisseau_, to board or enter a ship, either in a hostile or
friendly manner.
BORDER _une voile_, to trim a sail by the tacks and sheets.
BORDIER, lap-sided; expressed of a ship stronger on one side than the
other.
BORÉAL, _vent_ BOREAL, the northern wind.
BORNAGER, a method of shoving a great boat off from the shore, in a
river, by fixing one end of the setting-pole against her side,
whilst the other bears upon the ground.
BOSPHORE, a streight, or narrow channel; as the Thracian Bosphorus.
BOSSAGE, a name given by shipwrights to crooked timber, fit for knees,
&c.
BOSSE, a powder-flask, used by privateers, in naval engagements.
_Serre_-BOSSE, the shank-painter.
BOSSEMAN, _second contre maître_, the boatswain’s mate.
BOSSER _l’ancre_, to cat the anchor; also to stow the anchor. See
CAPONNER.
BOSSER _le cable_, to stopper the cable. From
BOSSES _à aiguilettes_, or _à rubans_, stoppers of the cable.
BOSSES, stoppers of the shrouds or stays.
BOSSES _de chaloupe_, or _de canot_, the boat’s painter or
mooring-rope.
BOSSE _du bossoir_, or _de lout_, the anchor-stoppers at the cat-head.
BOSSOIRS, the cat heads of a ship.
BOT, a boat, of several kinds. Whence
_Paque_-BOT, pacquet-boat, the packet, or packet-boat.
BOUCHE, the mouth of a river. _Bouchaut_ is also sometimes used in
this sense.
BOUCHE _de canon_, the bore or calibre of a piece of ordnance.
BOUCHIN, the extreme breadth of a ship, from outside to outside.
BOUCHON _d’etoupe, de foin, ou de paille_, the wad of a cannon, formed
of oakum, hay, &c.
BOUCHOTS, a penn, or place enclosed by hurdles, for fishing on the
sea-coast.
BOUCLE, shackles or bilboes.
_Mettre un matelot sous_ BOUCLE, to confine a sailor, or put him in
irons.
_Un port_ BOUCLÉ, a harbour which is land-locked.
BOUDINURE _de l’arganeau_, the puddening of the anchor. See
EMBODINURE.
BOUÉE, a buoy.
BOUÉE _de bout de mât_, a wooden buoy, formed of an end of a mast.
BOUÉE _de barril_, a cann-buoy, or nun-buoy.
BOUGE, incurvated; spoken of a piece of timber; also of the rounding
or convexity of the decks and beams. See TONTURE.
BOUILLAR, a squall, a cloud charged with wind and rain.
BOUILLONEMENT, the rippling of a river, as it is discharged into the
ocean.
BOULETS, balls or bullets of a cannon. Whence
BOULETS _rouge_, red-hot bullets. BOULETS _à chaîne_, chain-shot.
BOULETS _à branches_, or _à deux têtes_, bar or double-headed shot.
BOULIER, a sort of fishing-net.
BOULINE, the bowline. BOULINE _de la grand voile_, the main bowline.
BOULINE _de revers_, the lee bowline.
_Faire courir la_ BOULINE, to run the gauntlope.
BOULINER. See ALLER _à la bouline_.
BOULINGUE, the royal-sail.
BOULINIER, a ship that sails close-hauled. Hence _bon_ BOULINIER
signifies a ship that plies well to windward.
BOULON, an iron bolt. See CHEVILLE.
BOULONS _d’afut_, the bolts of the gun-carriages.
BOUQUE, an entrance or channel between islands or in narrow seas.
BOUQUETS, the fore-thwarts or fore-sheets of a boat.
BOURCER _un voile_, to carry a sail clewed up, or hauled up in the
brails. See CARGUER.
BOURCET, a name given to the fore-sail and fore-mast of small vessels
in the English Channel.
BOURGEOIS, the proprietor or owner of a ship.
BOURGEOIS is also the person who bargains with a shipwright to build a
ship, called the contractor or ship’s husband.
BOURGUIGNON, an island of ice.
BOURRASQUE, a violent squall of wind.
BOURRE, the wadding of a charge in artillery.
BOURRELET, or BOURLET, the puddenings of the yards.
BOURRELET _de canon_, the muzzle-ring of a piece of cannon.
BOURSE, or BOURCE, the exchange, or place of resort for merchants,
mariners, &c. in a commercial sea-port.
BOUSSOLE, COMPAS _de route_, or CADRAN _de mer_, the sea compass.
BOUSSOLE _affolée_, an erroneous or defective compass. See AFFOLÉE.