row-galley, where the _comite_, or boatswain walks, to see that the
slaves manage their oars and row with application.
COURSSIERE, a spar-deck, or grating-deck, reaching from the
quarter-deck to the fore-castle.
COURTAGE, a tax or duty levied on all merchandises which pass by sea
from one port to another.
COURVETTE. See CORVETTE.
COUSSIN _de beaupré_, the pillow of the bowsprit.
COUSSIN _de bittes_, the fir lining or doubling of the bits. See
CHEVET.
COUSSIN _de canon_, the bed of a cannon which supports the breech.
COUSSINS, the mats of the top-rims, used to prevent the top-sails from
being fretted by striking the edges of the tops.
COUSSINS _d’amures_, the mats nailed by the chess-tree, to prevent the
clue of the main-sail from being galled when the tack is aboard.
COUSTIERES, the shrouds of a galley, which are usually formed of
runners and tackles. See COULADOUX.
COUT _d’assurance_. See PRIME _assurance_.
COUTELAS. See BONNETTES _en étui_.
COUTURE, a seam between the planks of the deck or side of a ship.
COUTURE _de ceuille de voiles_, the seam of a sail.
COUTURE _ouverte_, an open seam, or one from which the oakum has been
expelled by the straining of the ship, &c.
COUVERTE, the deck of a ship, in the dialect of Provence.
COUVERTE _de l’iscosele de proue_, the fore castle, or fore-deck, of a
galley, together with the space beneath it, where the cannon are
planted.
COUVERTURES _de fanaux_, a sort of tubs to cover the top and
poop-lanthorns, to preserve them when they are not in use.
CRAIE, a small Swedish ship, without top-masts or top-sails.
CRAMPE, a cramp-iron, or hook of a block.
CRAQUER, to crack or strain; expressed of a ship that labours greatly
in a turbulent sea.
CRAVAN, a barnicle, or small shell-fish, of a disagreeable taste,
which fastens to a ship’s bottom in a long voyage.
CREUX, the depth of the hold from the lower-deck beams to the floor.
CREUX _d’une voile_, the belly or cavity of a sail, which retains the
wind.
CRIBLÉ, pierced with holes; expressed of a ship that has been much
damaged by worms or cannon-shot.
_Une voile_ CRIBLÉE, a sail much damaged by shot.
CRIQUE, a creek, or small natural harbour.
CROC, a boat-hook, or setting pole.
CROC _de candelette_, the cat-hook. See CAPON.
CROC _de pompe_, the pump hook.
CROCS _de palans_, the tackle-hooks.
CROCS _de palans de canons_, the hooks of the gun-tackles.
CROCS _de palanquins_, jigger-tackle-hooks.
CROCHETS _d’armes_, certain crutches, or hooks, to support the
small-arms in the cabins of a ship of war.
CROCHETS _de retraite_, the eye-bolts, in the train of a gun-carriage,
wherein are hooked the relieving-tackles.
CROISÉE _de l’ancre_, the cross of the anchor, or the part where the
shank terminates at the arms.
CROISER, to cruise in any particular station.
CROISER _à la lame_. See DE BOUT _à la lame_.
CROISETTE, the pin or bolt used as a fid to any flag-staff.
CROISEUR, a cruiser, a vessel employed to guard a coast; also a
pirate, or sea rover.
CROISEURS, or _vaisseaux en croisiere_, ships cruising in an appointed
station or latitude.
CROISIERE, a rendezvous or latitude for cruisers.
CROITRE, to rise or flow; expressed of the tide.
CROIX _sur les cables_, a cross in the hawse.
CRONE, a wheel-crane, built on a wharf.
CROQUER, to hook or grapple any thing.
CROQUER _le croc de palan_, to hook the cat to the anchor.
CROUCHANTS, the crochets, or floor-timbers fore and aft in a boat.
CROULER. See ROULER.
CROULER _un batiment_, to shake a ship by jumping on her decks, in
order to launch her from the stocks.
CROUPIARDER. See MOUILLER _en croupiere_.
CROUPIAT. See EMBOSSURE.
CROUPIERE, or CROUPIAS, a stern-fast, a stern-cable or hawser.
CUEILLE, one of the cloths of a sail.
CUEILLETTE, a measure or weight of any merchandise, which is equal to
a quintal, or 100 ℔.
CUILLER _à brai_, a pitch-ladle, to pay the seams of a deck.
CUILLER _à canon_, or CHARGEOIR, a gunner’s ladle.
CUILLER, _de pompe_, a pump-borer.
CUIRS _verds_, raw hides, used to cover the tops, lace on the yards,
serve the cables, &c.
CUISINE, the galley or cook-room of a ship.
CUL _de lampe_, an ornament of sculpture resembling the bottom of a
lamp, and placed in several parts of the stern or galleries, to
terminate the carved-work.
CUL _de pot_, _de porc_, or _de port_, a double or single wall-knot,
wrought on the end of a tack, stopper, or other rope.
CUL _de sac_, a name given by the inhabitants of America to a harbour
formed by nature without the assistance of art.
CUL _de vaisseau_. See ARRIERE.
CULASSE, the breech of a cannon, also the stock of a musquet.
CULÉE, the shock which a ship feels when striking the ground, on a
rock or sand-bank.
CULER, to go astern, to have stern-way.
CURATEUR _de la marine_, an officer who formerly assigned to the
several TRIÉRARQUES the duties of their respective departments. See
TRIÉRARQUE.
CURETTE, a pump-scraper, fastened to a staff, or pole, of ten or
twelve feet long, to clean the inside of a pump.
CUSEFORNE, a small, long, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan, without
decks, employed to fish whales.
D.
DAGUE _de prevôt_, the colt or cat used by the _prevôt_ to punish
criminals.
DAILLOTS, or ANDAILLOTS, the hanks or grommets of a stay.
DALE, the gutter or channel in which the train is laid in a fire-ship.
DALE _de pompe_, the pump-dale.
DALOTS, the scupper-holes of a ship. See GOUTTIERE.
DAME-JEANNE, a demijan, or large bottle, containing about four or five
gallons, covered with basket-work, and much used in merchant-ships.
DAMELOPRE, a vessel navigated on the canals of Holland.
DAMOISELLES. See LISSES _de porte-haubans_.
DANGERS _civils_, the duty, fine, or exaction, formerly demanded by
the lord of the manor from the merchant, or master, who suffered
shipwreck on his coast. See BRIS.
DANGERS _naturels_, a general name for the dangers of a coast or bank,
as rocks, or shelves of mud, sand, &c. which the officers of the
adjacent ports are charged to distinguish by buoys or beacons.
DARD _a feu_, a fire-arrow, used to burn the sails of an enemy’s ship.
DARSE, or DARSINE. See BASSIN.
DÉBACLE, or DÉBACLAGE, the act of clearing or opening an harbour, by
removing the lightened vessels to make room for such as are laden.
DÉBACLEUR, an officer whose duty it is to regulate the mooring of
light and laden ships in a harbour, and to keep the passage, or
fair-way, open and clear.
DÉBARCADOUR, a wharf, or storehouse, to receive goods discharged from
a ship.
DÉBARDAGE, the act of unlading in general, but particularly fire-wood.
DÉBARDER, to unlade wood, &c. Whence
DÉBARDEUR, a lighter-man. See GABARIER and PORTE-FAIX.
DÉBARQUEMENT, a return of the artillery, stores, rigging, &c. of a
ship of war into the dock-yard; also the discharging of the officers
and crew.
DÉBARQUEMENT likewise implies disembarking, or landing and discharging
the cargo of a merchant-ship.
DÉBARQUER, to unload or discharge a ship, to disembark, to return to
the shore.
DÉBAUCHE, an irregular tide.
DÉBILLER, to take off or dismiss the horses that track vessels up and
down a canal.
DÉBITTER _le cable_, to unbit the cable.
DE BORD _à bord_, upright on the water.
DÉBORDE, put off, sheer off! the order given by some officer of a
ship, to a boat lying near her, to remove farther off.
DÉBORDER, to sheer off from some other ship, particularly an enemy who
attempts to board: also to over-haul the tack and sheets, in order
to haul a sail up in the brails.
DÉBOSSER _le cable_, to take the stoppers off from the cable.
DÉBOUCLÉ, a term opposed to BOUCLÉ, which see.
DÉBOUQUEMENT, the arrival into open sea, after having been amongst
islands, or in narrow channels.
DE BOUT _à la lame_, head to the sea.
DE BOUT _à terre_, head to the shore, standing in shore. See DONNER
_de bout à terre_.
DE BOUT _au corps_. See ABORDAGE.
DE BOUT _au vent_. See ALLER _de bout au vent_.
DÉBOUTONNER _la bonnette_. See DÉLACER.
DÉBRIS, the effects which remain in a shipwrecked vessel. By the
ordonnances of the marine, all persons who shall have found, or
drawn such effects from the bottom of the sea, are to place them in
safety, and in twenty-four hours afterwards, at farthest, to make
proclamation thereof, under pain of being punished as felons: and by
the same ordonnance, it is permitted to the proprietors of the said
effects to demand them in a year and a day after such publication,
upon paying the salvage-money. It is to be wished that this laudable
decree were established in England.
DÉCHARGE, the act of unlading or discharging a merchant-ship.
DÉCHARGE _le petit hunier_, fill the fore-top-sail!
DÉCHARGEMENT. See DÉCHARGE.
_Se_ DÉCHARGER, to lose water; expressed of the ship’s pump.
DÉCHARGER _les voiles_, to fill the sails. See SERVIR.
DÉCHEOIR. See ABATTRE.
DÉCHET. See DÉRIVE.
DÉCHIRAGE, the act of breaking up an old ship, or of ripping off her
planks.
DÉCHIRER, to rip up an old vessel.
DÉCHOUER, to get a ship afloat, or off from the ground, into deep
water.
DÉCLINAISON, the variation of the compass, or of the magnetical
needle.
DÉCLINAISON _d’un astre_, the declination of a fixed star, &c.
DÉCOLEMENT, the forming of a tenon on a piece of timber.
DÉCOMBRES, the chips and useless pieces of timber which are left on a
shipwright’s wharf, after a vessel is built and launched.
DÉCOUDRE, to rip off planks from any part of a ship’s side, in order
to examine her timbers, &c.
DÉCOUVERTE, a look-out at the mast-head.
DÉCOUVRIR _les terres_, to make, or discover, the land.
DEDANS, when expressed of the sails, imports furled or stowed: as,
_Mettre les voiles_ DEDANS, to take in the sails.
DÉFEND, keep off, keep at a distance; the order given by the pilot, or
officer of the watch, to the helmsman, to steer farther from some
adjacent object, which may damage the ship.
DÉFENDRE _la côte_, to defend the sea-coast, and prevent an enemy from
landing thereon.
DÉFENSES, the skeeds of a ship’s side; also booms to send off another
ship which is near.
DÉFENSES _de bouts de cable_. See CORDES _de défense_.
DÉFENSES _pour chaloupes_, loose skeeds hung over a ship’s sides
occasionally, to preserve the boats from being damaged when they are
hoisted into, or out of, the ship.
DÉFERLER, to loose or heave out the sails. See DÉPLOYER.
DÉFIE _du vent_, you are all in the wind, keep her full! an
information or caution to the helmsman, that the ship is too near
the wind; implying that he should keep her farther off, or more to
leeward, to fill the sails.
DÉFIE _l’ancre du bord_, bear off the anchor! the order to keep the
fluke or bill of the anchor off from the side, to prevent it from
tearing the planks at the time of hoisting the fluke up, to be
secured by the shank-painter.
DÉFIER, to bear off, as a ship from a wharf, or one vessel from
another, to prevent either from being bruised or damaged by rubbing,
striking, &c.
DÉFUNER, to unrig a ship, to strip a mast, &c.
DÉGAGER _un vaisseau_, to rescue a ship from the possession, attack,
or pursuit, of an enemy.
DÉGARNIR _le cabestan_, to unrig the capstern, by taking off the viol
and unshipping the bars.
DÉGARNIR _un vaisseau_, to unrig or dismantle a ship. See DEGRÉER.
DÉGAUCHIR, to bevel or form a piece of timber, so as to fit aptly the
place for which it is designed.
DÉGORGEOIR, the bit or priming-iron of a cannon.
DÉGRADER _un vaisseau_, to lay-by a ship; also to quit or abandon a
ship at sea, after having taken out the rigging, stores, &c. when
she is become so old and crazy as to be equally useless and
dangerous.
DÉGRAPPINER, to warp a ship off from the ice by the means of
grapplings, when she had approached too near it.
DEGRÉ, the division of a degree upon a quadrant, nocturnal, &c.
DEGRÉ _de latitude_, a degree of latitude.
DEGRÉ _de longitude_, a degree of longitude.
DÉGRÉER, to unrig a ship; also to loose the rigging in a storm. See
DESAGRÉER.
DEHORS, the offing, the outside, or road, of a harbour.
DÉJOUER, to fly out, to flutter, or turn in the wind, expressed of
flags, pendants, &c.
DÉLACER _la bonnette_, to unlace or take off the bonnet from the foot
of a sail.
DÉLAISSEMENT, an instrument, or act, by which the loss of a ship is
announced by the master or merchant to an insurer, summoning him to
pay the stipulated insurance.
DÉLESTAGE, the discharging of ballast from a ship.
DÉLESTEUR, an officer appointed to receive the ballast of ships; also
a ballast-lighter,
DELOT, or rather COSSE. See COSSE.
DÉMAILLER. See DÉLACER.
DEMANDE, the scantlings or proportions required in each piece of
timber which enters into the construction of a ship of war; also the
capacity of every piece, without regard to such demand.
DÉMARAGE, or DÉMARRAGE, breaking adrift from the moorings, parting the
cables.
DÉMARRE, the order to cast off, let go a cable, hawser, or other rope.
DÉMARRER, to unmoor, to weigh anchor, to put to sea.
DÉMATÉ, dismasted by a storm or battle; also without the masts, when
they have been hoisted out.
DÉMATER, to take out the masts of a ship.
DEMEURER, to remain, or be left, in some road, bay, or harbour.
DEMI-BARRES, the bars of an English capstern.
DEMI-CLEF, a half-hitch on a rope, &c.
DEMI-PIQUE, a half-pike, sometimes used to oppose the boarders in a
sea-fight.
DEMI-PONT, the half-deck. See CORPS _de garde_.
DEMOISELLES. See LISSE _de porte-haubans_.
DEMONTER _le gouvernail_, to unhang the rudder.
DÉPARTEMENT, a marine arsenal, or dock-yard and gun-wharf; also the
extent of the district and jurisdiction of an _intendant_ of the
marine.
DÉPASSER, to be ahead of one’s reckoning; to sail past or beyond the
place intended, as by mistake.
DÉPASSER _la tournevire_, to shift the viol, or change it to the other
side of the cap-stern.
DÉPASSER _un vaisseau_, to fore-reach, gain ground upon, or pass
another ship, when sailing in company with her.
DÉPECER _un batiment_. See DÉCHIRER.
DÉPENCE, the steward-room in a ship of war.
DÉPENCIER, or DÉPENSIER _d’un vaisseau_, the ship’s steward. See
MAITRE-VALET.
DÉPENDANT. _Aller en_ DÉPENDANT, to sail in company; to follow.
_Tomber en_ DÉPENDANT, to bear up; to shorten sail in order to
veering.
DÉPLOER _le pavillon_, to let fly or display the ensign.
DÉPLOIER _une voile_, to heave out, or set a sail.
DÉPREDÉ, goods plundered or robbed from a wreck, contrary to law.
DÉRADER, to drive with the anchors ahead; to be driven from the
anchors and forced out to sea, by the violence of a storm.
DÉRALINGUER, to blow from the bolt-rope, in a storm; spoken of a sail.
DERAPER, to loosen from the ground; understood of the anchor when it
is almost aweigh.
DÉRIVATION, the yawing, or deviation from the line of the course.
DÉRIVE, the angle of lee-way, or drift.
DÉRIVE is also the stray-line, or allowance made for stray-line,
occasioned by a ship’s falling to leeward, when sounding, in deep
water.
DÉRIVE is likewise used for a lee-board. See SEMELLE.
DÉRIVE _qui vaut la route_, a drift favourable to the course.
_Belle_ DÉRIVE, a good offing, or sea-room.
DÉRIVER, to drive, to be driven to leeward by a tempest or foul wind.
DÉROBER _le vent d’un vaisseau_, to becalm a ship; also to becalm some
of the sails with others.
DÉSAFOURCHER, to unmoor.
DÉSAGRÉER, to have the rigging, or a part of it, blown away or lost by
a storm, &c.
DEÉSANCRER, to weigh anchor, and depart from a port or road.
DÉSARBORER, to strike the top-mast and haul down the colours.
DÉSARMEMENT. See DÉCHARGEMENT, and DÉBARQUEMENT.
DÉSARRIMER, to alter or shift the stowage of the hold, in order to
change the ship’s trim.
DESCENDRE, to maroon. See DESERTER.
DESCENDRE _une riviere_, to fall down a river with the tide.
DESCENTE, a descent or landing upon an enemy’s country.
DÉSEMBARQUER. See DÉBARQUEMENT.
_Vaisseau_ DÉSEMPARÉ, a ship disabled, as in a tempest or battle.
DÉSEMPARER _un vaisseau_, to disable a ship in battle, by dismasting
her and destroying her sails, &c.
DESERTER _quelqu’un_, to maroon a sailor, or leave him ashore in a
foreign country contrary to his inclination.
DESSUS _du vent_. See AVANTAGE _du vent_.
_Vingt hommes la_-DESSUS, clap on here twenty hands! the order from an
officer for twenty men to be employed on some particular duty.
DESTINATION, the place whither a ship is bound.
DÉTACHER, to select some ships from a squadron, for a particular
service.
_Se_ DÉTACHER, to quit or abandon the fleet.
DE TALINGUER, to unbend the cable, or take it off from the anchor.
DÉTREMPEUR _de viandes salées & de poisson_, the cook’s shifter.
DÉTROIT, a streight or narrow channel between two lands; also an
isthmus between two seas.
DÉVENTER _les voiles_, to shiver the sails, or brace them to shiver in
the wind.
DEVERGUER, to unbend the sails from their yards.
DEVERS, the moulding of any piece of timber, amongst shipwrights.
Whence _Marquer le bois suivant son_ DEVERS, to mould the timber
according to its compass or inclination.
DÉVIRER _le cable_, to surge the cable about the capstern or windlas,
in order to prevent it from riding, with one part over another.
DEVIS, a scheme containing the general dimensions of a ship, from
which the shipwright is to form a draught for constructing her.
DEXTRIBORD, or rather STRIBORD, the starbord side of a ship. See
STRIBORD.
DIABLOTIN, the mizen top-mast stay-sail.
DIGON, or DIGUON, the stock or staff of a vane or pendant; also a
piece of the ship’s cut water.
DIGUE, a wall, mound, or pier, of earth or stone, and sometimes of
timber, built on the margin of a river, to confine it within its
banks so that it may not overflow the adjacent country.
DILIGENCE, a swift-sailing wherry, or passage-boat.
DISPUTER _le vent_, to strive for the weather-gage, or endeavour to
get to windward of some ship, or fleet in sight.
DISTANCE _de ports, &c._ the line of distance, in navigation, between
any two given places, whose latitude and longitude are known.
DISTANCE _de sabords_, the distance, or interval, between two
gun-ports in a ship’s side.
DIVISION _d’une armée navale_, one division of a fleet of ships of
war.
DIXIEME, an additional cask allowed by an agent-victualler to every
ten casks of sea provisions, to answer for waste or leakage.
DOGRE, or DOGRE-_bot_, a Dutch dogger.
DOGUES _d’amure_, the holes in the chess-trees. See TAQUET.
DONNER _à la côte, sur un banc, ou sur un écueil_, to run aground,
strike, or be stranded on any coast, shoal, or rock.
DONNER _de bout à terre_, to run right in for the land.
DONNER _dedans_, to enter a port, road, &c.
DONNER _le bas de soie_. See BAS _de soie_.
DONNER _les culées_, to strike repeatedly on a shelf or rock.
DONNER _le fond_. See MOUILLER.
DONNER _la cale_. See CALE.
DONNER _la chasse_. See CHASSER.
DONNER _le côté_. See PRETER _le côté_.
DONNER _le feu à un vaisseau_, to bream a ship.
DONNER _le suif_, to pay a ship’s bottom after she is breamed.
DONNER _vent devant_, to throw a ship up in the wind, or in stays; to
bring the wind ahead, by putting the helm a-lee.
DONNER _un grand hunier_, to spare a main top-sail to some other ship
in company; implying, that such ship sails slower by as much, as the
force of a main-top-sail assists her velocity.
DONNEUR _à la grosse_, the insurer of a ship and her cargo.
DORER _un vaisseau_, to pay a ship’s bottom. See ESPALMER.
DORMANTE, _l’eau_ DORMANTE, standing water, or water where no tide
runs.
DORMANT, the standing part of a tackle, brace, or other running rope.
_Bateau fait à_ DOS _d’ane_, a sharp-bottomed boat.
DOU _est la navire_? whence came the ship? where belongs the ship to?
DOUBLAGE, the sheathing applied to the bottom of a ship, to preserve
her.
DOUBLE _d’une manœuvre_, the bight of a rope. See BALANT.
DOUBLER, to double, or double upon, in a sea-fight.
DOUBLER _le sillage_, to make a crooked wake; to run over more space
of water than is necessary, by bad steerage.
DOUBLER _un cap_, _parer un cap_, to double, or pass beyond a cape,
and leave it behind.
DOUBLER _un vaisseau_, to sheathe a ship’s bottom.
DOUCIN, a name given by seamen to brackish water.
DRAGAN, the ornamented part of the stern of a row-galley.
DRAGON, a whirlpool, or vortex of water.
DRAGON _de vent_, a sudden gust or violent squall of wind.
DRAGUE, a drag, or instrument to clean the bottoms of rivers and
canals; also to catch oysters.
DRAGUE _de canon_. See BRAGUE.
DRAGUER, to clean the bottom of a river or canal with a drag.
DRAGUER _l’ancre_, to drag, or sweep the bottom, for an anchor which
is lost.
DREGE, a sort of net for catching soles and turbot.
DRESSE _la chaloupe_, trim the boat! See BARQUE _droite_.
DRESSER _les vergues_, to brace the yards to the wind when the sails
are furled at sea.
DRESSER _une piece de bois_, to trim or prepare any piece of timber
for its use.
DRISSE, or ISSAS, the haliards of any sail or yard.
DRISSE _de pavillon_, the ensign haliards.
_Allonge la_ DRISSE, the order to man the haliards, or stretch them
along to be manned.
DROGUERIE, the herring-fishery, or the catching and preparation of
herrings, on the Northern Banks.
DROIT _d’ancrage_. See ANCRAGE.
DROIT _de congé_. See CONGÉ.
DROIT _de varech, ou varet_. See CHOSES _de la mer_, and DÉBRIS.
_Aller en_ DROITURE, or _faire sa route en_ DROITURE, to make a strait
course, to make a voyage without touching at any intermediate port.
DROSSE, or DROUSSE, the tiller-rope, formed of white hemp, and wound
about the barrel of a ship’s wheel.
DROSSE _de canon_, a gun-tackle.
DROSSE _de racage_, a parrel-rope, or truss-rope.
DUNES, downs or heights on the sea-coast.
DUNETTE, the poop of a ship of war.
DUNETTE _sur_ DUNETTE, the poop-royal. See TEUGUE.
E.
EAU _changée_, discoloured water, or water whose colour is changed by
approaching the shore, or otherwise.
EAU _du vaisseau_. See SILLAGE.
EAU _haute_, high-water. See HAUTE-MARÉE.
EAU _maigre_, or _Maigre-eau_, shoal-water. This phrase is peculiar to
the common sailors.
EAU _plate & courtoise_, very smooth water; the state of the water in
a dead calm.
EAU _premiere_ & EAU _seconde_, the first and second floods after a
neap-tide.
EAUX _fermées_, water enclosed with ice.
EAUX _ouvertes_, an open channel, after the ice has melted or
separated.
EBAROUI, abounding with shakes or rents; expressed of a ship whose
planks are split, and her seams opened, by the sun or wind, for want
of being wetted, or sluiced over with water, in the evenings and
mornings.
EBE, or JUSSANT, the ebb-tide.
_Il y à_ EBE, the tide ebbs, or falls.
EBRANLEMENT, the cracking or straining of a ship, as she labours in a
high sea.
ECALE, the touching, or anchoring, at any port, in the course of a
voyage.
ECARLINGUE. See CARLINGUE.
ECART _double_, a scarf of two ends of timber laid over each other.
ECART _simple ou quarré_, butt and butt; the joining of the butt-ends
of two planks.
ECHAFAUD, a flake, or light stage, used in Newfoundland to dry
cod-fish; also a stage hung over a ship’s side, to caulk or repair
any breach.
ECHANDOLE. See ESCANDOLE.
ECHANTILLONS, the scantlings or dimensions of the different pieces of
timber used in ship-building.
ECHARPE, the shell of a block or pulley. See ARCASSE and MOUFFLE.
ECHARS, a wind that veers and hauls; a light and variable wind.
ECHELLE, a scale of equal parts; also a sea-port town, in the dialect
of Provence.
ECHELLE _de pouppe_, the stern or quarter-ladder, formed of ropes.
ECHELLES, the gangway and ladder, which serve to ascend or descend the
ship’s side; likewise the several ladders between decks.
ECHELLES _de latitude croissante_. See CARTE _réduite_.
ECHILON, a water-spout. See SIPHON.
ECHOME, a thoule-pin. See AUTARELLES and THOLET.
ECHOUEMENT, the state of being stranded or wrecked on a coast.
ECHOUER _sur la rivage_, to run ashore, or aground; also to be
stranded.
ECLAIRCIE, a clear spot in a cloudy sky. See CLAIRON.
ECLAT _de bois_, a splinter, or chip, torn from any piece of timber,
by the force of a cannon-ball or by the stroke of an ax.
ECLUSE, a sluice, or dam.
ECOLE, the school, or academy, in a dock-yard, where navigation,
arithmetic, and fortification are taught.
ECOPE, a boat’s scoop, or skeet, to throw out the water in her bottom.
ECORE, the edge or extremity of a sand-bank. See CÔTE.
ECORES, are also the shores or props which sustain a ship in dock, or
on the stocks, when they are repairing or building her. See ACCORES.
ECOTARD. See PORTE-HAUBANS.
ECOUETS, the tacks of the main-sail and fore-sail.
ECOUPE, or ECOUPÉE, a swab. See FAUBER.
ECOUTES, the sheets of a sail.