BOUT _de beaupré_, a boom used for a bowsprit in small vessels.
BOUT _de corde_, a rope’s end, a short piece of rope.
BOUTS _de cable_, pieces of junk, or old cable.
BOUTS _de corde_, a cat of nine tails, scourge, or rope’s end for
punishment.
BOUT _de vergue_, the yard-arm, but more particularly that part of it
which reaches beyond the upper corners of its respective sail, to
extend the reef.
BOUTE-DEHORS, the studding-sail booms: this name is also given to a
small mast erected in the tops, to hoist up and fix the caps on the
mast-heads.
BOUTE-DEHORS is likewise a boom to push off some ship which is near,
or which approaches for any hostile purpose, as to board, &c.
BOUTE _de lof_, or BOUTE-LOF, the bumkin, or boom of the fore tack.
BOUTE-FEU, a lint-stock; also the name of an officer who is appointed
to fire the cannon.
BOUTE-LOF. See BOUTE _de lof_.
BOUTE _le cable au cabestan & vire l’ancre_, bring the cable to the
capstern, or bring-to the cable, and heave to the anchor.
BOUTEILLES, the quarter-badges of a ship. See BALCON.
BOUTEILLES _de callebasse_, bundles of buoyant rushes, used in the
exercise of learning to swim.
BOUTER, to bear off, to push, to join, &c.
BOUTER _à l’eau_, to launch into the water, to put to sea.
BOUTER _au large_, to stand out into the offing.
BOUTER _de lof_, to haul the wind, to trim sharp.
BOUTES, large casks, which hold fresh water for the use of a
sea-voyage.
BOUTEUX, or BOUT _de quevre_, a sort of fishing rod.
BOUTONNER _la bonette_, to lash on the bonnets. See BONNETTE.
BOUVET, a sort of plane used by shipwrights to form a small groove.
BOYE, See BOUÉE or BALISE.
BOYER, a kind of Dutch sloop.
BRAGUE, the breeching of a cannon used at sea.
BRAI, pitch. Hence _braier un vaisseau_, to pay the seams of a ship
with hot melted pitch, after they are caulked with oakum. It is
sometimes mixed with other compositions, to nourish the timber, and
is then called BRAI _gras_.
BRANCHE _de ciprès_, beaconage; a small duty paid by shipping in
France, for keeping the beacons in repair.
BRANCHE _superieure d’une courbe_, the upper part of a knee.
BRANCHE _d’embas_, the lower arm of a knee or standard.
BRANLE, a hammock.
_Tendre les_ BRANLES, to sling the hammocks.
BRANLE _bas_, or _fort_ BRANLE, the order to lash and take down all
the hammocks between decks, in order to prepare for engagement, or
otherwise to clear the ship.
BRAS, the brace of a yard.
_Tenir un_ BRAS, to haul in and fasten the brace.
_Bon_ BRAS, braced to a large wind, braced in.
BRAS _de revers_, the lee brace.
BRAS, or BRANCHES _d’ancre_, the anchor-arms.
BRASSE, a fathom, or measure of six feet.
BRASSEIAGE, the quarters of a yard.
BRASSER _à faire porter_, or _à faire servir_ to fill the sails after
they have been braced a back.
BRASSER _au vent_, to brace the sails in, to haul in the weather
braces.
BRASSER _les voiles sur le mât_, to brace the sails a-back, or lay the
sails to the mast. This is also called BRASSER _à contre_. See
COEFFER.
BRASSER _sous le vent_, to brace to leeward, to brace up.
BRAYES, the tarred canvas coats of the mast.
BREDINDIN, a small stay-tackle, or burton, affixed to the main-stay.
BREF, a sort of warrant or commission from the state, allowing a ship
to purchase provisions, conducting her safe on the coast, and
exempting her from other duties.
BREGIN, a sort of fishing-net, with very small meshes, used in the
Mediterranean.
BREQUIN, or _Ville_-BREQUIN, a shipwright’s wimble to bore wood.
BRESSIN, the jears or haliards of a yard or sail; also a tackle-hook.
See PALAN.
BREVET, CONNOISSEMENT, POLICE _de chargement_, a bill of lading.
BREVET _d’officier_, the commission or warrant of an officer.
BREUILLER. See CARGUER.
BREUILS. See CARGUES, MARTINETS, and GARCETTES.
BRIDER _l´ancre_, to bridle the anchor[59].
BRIEUX, a term used in Brittany to express the salutation of striking
the flag, or topsails, to an admiral, &c. Also a duty paid for
entering a harbour.
BRIGANTIN, a small light vessel, navigated by oars and sails; but
differing extremely from the vessel known in England by the name of
brig or brigantine.
BRIMBALE, the brake or handle of a ship’s pump.
BRION, the fore-foot, placed at the extremity of the keel forward.
BRIS, a duty formerly paid to the lord of the coast, by those who
suffered shipwreck thereon. This unjust exaction is now totally
abolished. See DEBRIS.
BRISANT, or BRISANS, a shelf or ridge of rocks nearly level with the
surface of the water, and distinguished by the breakers, or waves
that burst over it; also the breakers themselves.
BRISE, a fresh gale or breeze; the trade-winds, or sea-breezes between
the tropics.
BRISE _carabinée_, a violent wind or squall.
BRISER, to split, or dash forcibly against a rock or shelf; expressed
of a ship when she is stranded.
BRISES, the land-winds which blow during the night in the West Indies,
&c.
BROCHETER, to give the scantlings of the several members or pieces of
a ship’s frame.
BROU, the bark of the cocoa, of which the Indians form the cordage
used in their shipping,
BRUINE, small drizzling rain.
BRULOT, a fire ship.
BRUME, a mist or fog at sea.
_Tems_ EMBRUMÉ, or _couvert de brouillard_, thick misty weather.
BUCENTAURE, a sort of galley used by the state of Venice, when the
doge performs the annual ceremony of espousing the sea.
BUCHE, a herring-buss, or small fly-boat used in the herring-fishery.
BULLETIN, a certificate given to sea-officers and sailors, when they
are registered in a port, to testify their qualities, age,
privileges, and time of service.
BURINS. See TAPPES.
BUTIN, the pillage or plunder of a prize taken from an enemy.
C.
CABANE, a flat-bottomed passage-boat, with a deck, navigated on the
river Loire.
CABANES, the cabins or apartments wherein the officers and sailors
sleep or mess aboard a ship. See TEUGUE.
CABESTAN, the capstern or crab of a ship.
_Virer au_ CABESTAN, to heave the capstern round with bars.
CABILLOT, a toggel; also a wooden pin for belaying ropes.
CABLE, the cable; also a measure of 120 fathoms, called by the English
seamen a cable’s length.
CABLE _à pic_, the situation of the cable when the ship is close
a-peek on her anchor.
CABLE _de touei_, a stream-cable, or large hauser.
CABLE _tourné_, or _qui à un tour_, or _demi-tour_, a foul hause, a
cross or elbow in the hause.
_Bitter le_ CABLE, to bit the cable, or clap it on the bits. See
BITTER.
_Couper_, or _tailler le_ CABLE, to cut the cable in the hause.
_Donner le_ CABLE _à un vaisseau_, to give a cable’s end to another
ship; to take a ship in tow at sea.
_Filer du_ CABLE, to slack out or veer away the cable. See FILER.
_Laisser trainer un_ CABLE _sur le sillage du vaisseau_, to drag a
cable in the ship’s wake in order to prevent her sailing swiftly,
when she is chased by a vessel of inferior force, which is decoyed
by this stratagem within reach of her cannon.
_Lover un_ CABLE, to coil a cable.
CABLEAU, the painter, or mooring-rope of a boat.
CABLER, to make large ropes or cables.
CABOTAGE, the art of a coasting-pilot; as the knowledge of the shore,
the tides, ports, rivers, capes, soundings, &c. on any particular
coast.
CABOTER, to coast, or sail along the shore between cape and cape.
CABOTIERE, a large flat-bottomed lighter, with a long rudder.
CABRE, sheers, a machine resembling the sheers of a ship, used to
heave up pieces of timber on the wharf of a river.
CABRIONS, certain wedges fixed under the train of a gun-carriage, to
secure the cannon when the sea is very high.
CADENE, a chain by which a galley-slave is confined to his oar.
CADENES _de hauban_, the chains of the shrouds, the chain-plates.
CADRE, a bed frame, resembling the frame of a cott, wherein the
sea-officers sleep: these are usually bottomed with small cords by
the French, and slung by the corners without a cott.
CAGE. See HUNE.
CAGOUILLE, a sort of volute or ornament on the extremity of the prow
of polacres, xebecs, tartans, &c.
CAIC, the yawl or skiff of a galley; also a small Polish vessel,
navigated in the Black Sea.
CAIES, a ridge of rocks, or sand-banks; called in the West indies,
keys.
CAILLEBOTIS, the gratings of the hatches.
CAJOLER, to ply to windward with the tide, to work by short tacks.
CAISSE _de poulie_. See ARCASSE and MOUFFLE.
CAJUTES, the cabins which are ranged along the inside of a ship, to
sleep in.
CALANGE, or CALE, a small harbour behind a hill, or rising ground, on
the sea-coast.
CALCETS, the cheeks or hounds of the mast, which support the brazen
blocks in a galley.
CALE, the hold of a ship; also a sloping or shelving on the sea-coast;
likewise the lead of a fishing-line used to sink the bait.
_Donner la_ CALE, to duck or plunge an offender from the yard-arm into
the sea, by way of punishment.
_Donner la grand_ CALE, to keel-haul; a punishment peculiar to the
Dutch.
CALE-BAS, a down-haul, or down-haul tackle.
CALE-HAUBAN, a breast back-stay for the top-mast or top-gallant-mast.
CALER, to sink down in the water; also to founder at sea.
CALER _les voiles_. See AMENER.
CALER also signifies to quoin or wedge up any thing.
CALE-TOUT, let go amain, or at once.
CALFAS, or rather CALFAT, caulking.
CALFAT, or CALFATEUR, a caulker.
CALFAT also signifies a caulking-iron. CALFAT _double_, a making-iron.
CALFATER, to caulk a ship or boat.
CALFATIN, a caulker’s boy, who spins or twists his oakum.
CALIBRE, the bore of a cannon or other fire-arm, or the diameter of a
cannon-ball.
CALIBRE _de vaisseau_, the model of a ship.
CALIORNE, a winding-tackle; a tackle formed by a rope passing through
two three-fold blocks.
CALME, calm, a cessation of wind.
CALME _tout plat_, a dead calm, or a flat calm. Whence
CALMER, to become calm.
CAMBRER, to bend the planks or boards of a ship to their proper curve,
by stoves, &c.
CAMPAGNE _sur mer_, a voyage, a cruise at sea for a season, or limited
space of time.
CANAL, a canal, streight, or channel.
CANAL _de l’étrave_, the concavity in the top of the stem, wherein the
bowsprit rests.
CANAL, or CREUX _autour d’un poulie_, the hole in a block between the
shell and the sheave, through which the rope passes.
CANDELETTE, or BOSSE _de bossoir_, the cat tackle and hook. See
CAPION.
CANEFAS, or CANEVAS, canvas or sail-cloth. See TOILE.
CANON, a cannon or piece of ordnance.
CANON _à la serre_, a gun housed athwart, with the top of its muzzle
bearing against the upper edge of the port.
CANON _alongé contre le bord_, a gun housed lengthways, close to the
ship’s side, abreast of its own port.
CANON _aux sabords_, a gun levelled to the point-blank range.
CANON _de coursier_, the bow-chase of a row-galley.
CANON _demare_, a cannon drawn in to be charged.
CANON _détape_, a cannon with its tompion taken out.
CANON _moindre_, a cannon whose calibre is not proportioned to the
thickness of the metal.
CANON _renforcé_, a cannon whose breech is reinforced, i. e. thicker
than the calibre, which is the usual dimension.
CANONNER, to cannonade, to fire a broadside.
CANONNIER _de vaisseau_, the gunner of a ship.
_Second maître_ CANONNIER, the gunner’s mate.
CANONNIERS, the quarter-gunners or artillery-men of a ship.
CANOT, a ship’s boat, cutter, or yawl.
CANOT _de bois_, a canoe.
CANOT _jaloux_, a crank boat.
CANOTS, Indian canoes of various kinds.
CANTANETTES, the light-ports in the stern of a galley.
CANTIBAI, a name given by shipwrights to timber which is full of
cracks, &c.
CANTIMORON. See CATIMORON.
CAP, the head or prow of a ship.
_Porter le_ CAP _sur l’ennemi_, to bear towards the enemy.
_Ou as-tu le_ CAP? how is the head? how does the ship wind?
CAP, a cape, head-land, or promontory.
_Doubler le_ CAP, to double, or sail round, a cape.
CAP _de more_. See CHOUQUET.
CAP _de mouton_, the dead-eye of a shroud or stay.
CAP _de mouton à croc_, an iron-bound dead-eye, with a hook.
CAP _de mouton de martinet_, the dead-eye of a crow-foot. See
TRELINGAGE.
CAPACITÉ _d’un vaisseau_, the burthen of a ship.
CAPE, or GRAND PACFI, the mainsail.
_Etre à la_ CAPE, to lie-by under the main-sail, or some other of the
courses.
CAPÉER, CAPIER, or CAPEYER, _aller à la cape_, _mettre le vaisseau à
la cape_, to lie under the mainsail when all the other sails are
furled.
CAPELER _les haubans_, to fix the shrouds on the mast-head.
CAPION, the stern-post of a galley. See RODE.
CAPION _de proue_, the stem of a galley.
CAPION _à capion_, from stem to stern.
CAPITAINE _d’un vaisseau de guerre_, the captain of a ship of war.
CAPITAINE _d’armes_, a captain of marines.
CAPITAINE _de frégate legére_, _de brulot_, _de galiote_, a master and
commander.
CAPITAINE _du hautbord_, the captain of a ship of the line.
CAPITAINE _de ports_, the commandant of a detachment of marines,
appointed to guard a dock-yard, and the shipping in the harbour.
CAPITAINE _des matelots_, an officer resembling our captain of the
fore-castle.
CAPITAINE _en second_, the second captain, or first lieutenant, of a
ship of war.
CAPITAINE _garde-côte_, a captain of the militia appointed to guard
the coasts.
CAPITANE, or CAPITAINESSE, a name formerly given to the principal
galley of France.
CAPLANIER, a cod-fisher, a vessel appointed to fish and cure cod; also
the men employed in this service.
CAPON, the cat-tackle.
CAPONNE, the order to cat the anchor.
CAPONNER _l’ancre_, to cat or draw up the anchor to the cat-head.
CAPOSER, to bring a ship to, with her helm a-lee.
_Faire_ CAPOT, to cant, over-set, or turn topsy-turvy.
CAPRE, a vessel of war, or armed ship.
CAQUE _de poudre_, a powder-cask; also a herring-barrel, whence
CAQUEURS, sailors appointed to cure and barrel the herring.
CARACORE, an Indian vessel, peculiar to the island of Borneo.
CARAMOUSSAL, or CARAMOUSSAIL, a merchant-ship of Turky, constructed
with a very high stern.
CARAQUE, a name given by the Portuguese to ships employed in the
Brazil and the East Indian trade.
CARAVELLE, a small square-sterned Portuguese vessel, navigated with
lateen sails; and esteemed very expeditious, and therefore used in
business that requires dispatch.
CARCASSE, the carcase or ribs of a ship before the planks are laid on,
or after they are ripped off.
CARENAGE, a careening wharf.
CARENE, the outside of a ship’s bottom. This word is sometimes used
for the keel.
CARENE _entier_, to heave down a ship keel-out.
_Demie_ CARENE, a parliament-heel, or boot-topping.
CARENER, _donner la carene à un vaisseau_, to careen or heave down a
ship with careening tackles to a wharf or pontoon.
CARGADOR, the person who procures a freight or voyage for a
merchant-ship.
CARGAISON, the cargo, or articles of a ship’s lading.
CARGUE _à veu_, a slab-line.
CARGUER, to clue up a sail, or haul it up in the brails.
CARGUER _l’artimon_, to brail up the mizen.
CARGUER _le point de la voile qui est sous le vent_, to haul up the
lee-clue-garnet, or goose-wing of a sail.
CARGUES, a general name for the brails of a sail, comprehending the
clue-lines, bunt-lines, leech-lines, &c.
CARGUES _d’artimon_, the brails of the mizen.
_Mettre les basses voiles sur les_ CARGUES, to haul up the courses, or
haul the courses up in the brails.
_Mettre les huniers sur les_ CARGUES, to clue up the top-sails.
CARGUES _bouline_, the leech-lines.
CARGUES _de fond_, the bunt-lines.
CARGUES _de hune_. See RETRAITE _de hune_.
CARGUES _dessous le vent_, the lee-brails, _&c._
CARGUES _du vent_, the brails to windward, or weather-brails.
CARGUES _point_, the clue-garnets, or clue-lines.
CARGUEUR, the top-block of a top-gallant-mast.
CARLINGUE, _contre-quille_, the kelson.
CARLINGUE _de cabestan_, the step of the capstern.
CARLINGUE _de pied de mât_, the step of the mast, with its block.
CARNAU, the lateen fore-sail of a settee or polacre.
CARREAU. See LISSE _de platbord_.
CARTAHU, girt-line, or gurt-line.
CARTE _marine_, a chart or map of the sea, representing its banks,
rocks, shoals, bays, havens, &c.
CARTE _plate_, or _au point commun_, the plain chart.
CARTON, a book containing a collection of charts in folio.
CARTOUCHE, a cartridge to contain a charge of powder for a cannon or
other fire-arm.
CATARACTES, water-falls.
CATIMARON, a catamaran, or Indian raft.
CATURS, armed vessels of Bantam.
CAYES, keys, or chains of rocks, nearly even with the surface of the
sea.
CEDRE, _bois de_ CEDRE, cedar-wood, which is excellent for
ship-building.
CEINTES, a name formerly given to the wales. See PERCEINTES and
LISSES.
CENTRE _de pesanteur_, the center of gravity.
CERCLE _d’étambraie_, or _de cabestan_, an iron hoop that lines the
hole of the deck, within which the capstern turns upon its spindle.
CERCLES _de boute-hors_, the studding-sail boom-irons.
CERCLES _de hune_, the top-rails, which formerly surrounded the tops,
when circular.
CERCLES _de pompe_, the iron hoops fixed on the top of the pump, to
strengthen it.
CHABLEAU, a tow-line, a large warp.
CHABLEUR, a water-officer, who has the care of the wherries.
CHAINES _de chaudiere_, the chains of the copper, or kettle, which
boils victuals in the cobose, for the ship’s crew.
CHAÎNES _de port_, the boom or chain of a harbour. See BARRE.
CHAÎNES _de vergues_, the top-chains.
CHALAND, or BAC, a sort of lighter used on the Loire.
CHALINGUE, a light high-built Indian vessel, formed without nails.
CHANDELIER _de fanal_, the iron brace, or crank, with its stool, which
supports the poop-lanthorn.
CHANDELIER _de pierrier_, the iron crutch of a swivel gun; also the
wooden stock, hooped with iron, in whose socket it rests, and is
turned.
CHANDELIERS _de chaloupe_, the crutches of a boat, which sustain the
main-boom, or the mast and sail, when they are lowered, for the
conveniency of rowing.
CHANDELIERS _d’écbelle_, the stancheons which support the entering
ropes at the gangway.
CHANDELIERS _de lisses_, the iron crutches, or double stanchions, of
the quarters, &c. fixed in a vessel of war, to extend the double
nettings. See FILARET.
CHANDELIERS, _de petite batiments_, the crutches on the stern or
quarter of a boom-sail vessel. See CHANDELIERS _de chaloupe_.
CHANGER, in a naval sense, generally implies to tack, shift, or
relieve.
CHANGER _de bord_, to tack or veer. See VIRER _de bord_.
CHANGER _l’artimon_, to shift over the mizen to the other side.
CHANGER _le quart_, to change or relieve the watch.
CHANGER _les voiles_, to shift the sails, to brace about, to jibe.
CHANGER _les voiles d’avant, & les mettre sur le mât_, to brace the
head-sails to the wind, to lay the head-sails to the mast.
CHANTIER, the stocks upon which a ship is laid down to be built.
CHANTIER, or ATTELIER, also signifies a shipwright’s yard or wharf.
CHANVRE, hemp employed to make the sails and cordage of a ship.
CHAPE, the inner box of a sea-compass.
CHAPEAU _de maître_, a gratuity or due, required by the master of a
ship for each ton of goods which his vessel carries.
CHAPELLE, the chapelling of a ship, or suffering her to be taken
aback, so that she cannot recover her course till she has gone quite
round. This seldom happens, unless when the vessel is close-hauled
in light winds, and is usually occasioned by the negligence of the
steersman.
_Faire_, or _prendre_ CHAPELLE, to build a chapel at sea, or chapel a
ship.
CHARGE, the cargo, burthen, or lading of a ship. This is also called
_chargement_.
_Etre_ CHARGÉ _â la côte_, to be upon, or near a lee-shore.
CHARGEOIR, or _lanterne à charger_, a gunner’s ladle.
CHARGER, to load a ship, or take in her cargo.
CHARGER _en grenier_, to load a ship in bulk.
CHARGER _la pompe_, to fetch the pump.
CHARGEUR-MARCHAND, or MARCHAND-CHARGEUR, the merchant who loads a
ship, or freights her to convey a cargo to some distant place.
CHARNIER, a scuttled cask, to contain water for the ship’s crew to
drink on the deck.
CHAROI. See CHARROI.
CHARPENTIER _de navire_, a shipwright; also the carpenter of a ship.
CHARTE-PARTIE, a charter-party, or compact made between the owner of a
ship and the merchant, or contractor, who hires her for a limited
time; also a convention made by a company of merchants who trade
together.
CHASSE, a chase at sea, or flight of one vessel from another who
pursues her.
_Prendre_ CHASSE, to stand away from, to fly from.
_Donner_ CHASSE, or CHASSER, to give chase, to pursue.
_Soutenir_ CHASSE, to make a running fight, to fight in retreat.
CHASSE _de proue_, the head-chase, or bow-chase. See PIECE _de
chasse_.
CHASSER _sur son ancre_, to drag the anchor, to bring the anchor home.
CHAT, a cat; a ship so called.
CHATEAU, a general name for the fore-castle and quarter-deck of a
deep-waisted vessel.
CHATEAU _d’arriere_, or _de pouppe_, the quarter-deck and poop.
CHATEAU _d’avant_, or _de proue_, the forecastle.
CHATTE, a small two-masted vessel, formed like a cat or Norwegian
pink.
CHAUDERON _de pompe_, a plate of lead or copper, perforated with
holes, to cover the bottom of a pump.
CHAUDIERE, the great copper, or kettle, in which the provisions for
the sailors are boiled.
CHAUDIERE _à brai_, or _à goudron_, a pitch-kettle.
CHAUFFAGE, breaming-fuel, furze, or faggots, to burn the dirt from off
a ship’s bottom at the time of breaming.
CHAUFFER, to bream a ship, or burn the filth from off her bottom.
CHAUFFER _les soutes_, to dry or season the bread-room, in order the
better to preserve the biscuit during a sea-voyage.
CHAUFFER _un bordage_, to bend a plank, or make it pliant by heating
it.
CHAVIRER, or TREVIRER, to over-set, capsize, or turn any thing topsy
turvy.
CHAUSSE, a present of money, or wine, given by the merchant to the
master of a trading vessel, partly for himself, and partly to be
distributed amongst the ship’s crew on a proper occasion.
CHEBEC, or CHABEK, a xebeck.
CHEF, the stem or head of a boat.
CHEF is also a junk, or end of a cable, used as an headfast to a ship,
when she is ready to be launched, and which is to retain her after
she floats, till her anchor is carried out, or let fall from the
bow.
CHEF _d’eau_, high-water. See HAUTE _marée_.
CHEF _d’escadre_, a commodore.
CHEMIN, a range of skeeds laid by seamen, to roll full casks upon,
either on shore or aboard.
CHEMIN _du halage_, a path on the side of a river, or canal, for
horses to track boats and vessels along the stream.
CHEMISE _à feu_, or SOUFRÉE, a tarpawling, or a piece of old canvas,
dipped in a composition of oil, petrol, camphire, and other
combustible materials, and nailed to the planks of an enemy’s ship,
when it is intended to set her on fire.
CHENALER, to find out a channel by the help of buoys, or of sounding,
where the water is shallow.
CHENETS, a sort of iron claws used to bend the planks of a ship by
fire.
CHERSONESE, a peninsula.
CHEVALET, a roller for passing the cables from one place to another.
CHEVAUCHER, to ride, or be fayed upon; a term in ship-building.
CHEVET _de traversin de bittes_, the lining or doubling of the bitts,
which is employed to prevent the cable from galling them when the
ships ride with a great strain.
CHEVILLE, an iron bolt, of which there are several sorts used in the
construction of a ship: as,
CHEVILLE _à boucle_, a ring-bolt.
CHEVILLE _à boucles & à goupilles_, a ring which is fastened with a
forelock.
CHEVILLE _à croc_, a hook-bolt for the gun ports.
CHEVILLE _à goupilles_, a forelock-bolt, or bolt fitted to receive a
forelock.
CHEVILLE _à grille & à boucles_. See GOUJON.
CHEVILLE _æilettes d’affut_, the eye-bolts of the gun-carriages.
CHEVILLE _à tête de diamant_, or _à tête ronde_, a round-headed bolt.
CHEVILLE _à tête perdue_, a bolt whose head is sunk into the timber
wherein it is driven.
CHEVILLE _d’offut_, a gun-carriage bolt.
CHEVILLE _de fer à charger le canon_, langrage-shot.
CHEVILLE _de pompe_, the short pump-bolt, or bolt to connect the brake
with the spear.
CHEVILLE _de potence de pompe_, a long pump-bolt, or bolt which
fastens the brake to the cheeks or ears of the pump.
CHEVILLER, to bolt a ship, or drive the bolts which fasten one part to
another.
CHEVILLOTS, belaying-pins, fixed in the rails fore and aft.
CHEVRE, a gin, or triangle with pullies.
CHICAMBAUT, or CHICABAUT, a bumkin. See BOUTE-LOF.
CHICANER _le vent_, to ply or beat to windward. See LOUVIER.
CHIORME, or rather CHIOURME, the troop or crew of slaves belonging to
one row-galley, together with the volunteers who row at the oars.
CHIRURGIEN _major_, the surgeon of a ship.