_Avoir les_ ECOUTES _largues_, to sail with a flowing sheet.
_Larguer ou filer l’_ECOUTE, to ease off the sheet.
_Border les_ ECOUTES, to haul aft the sheets.
_Border plat les_ ECOUTES, to haul the sheets flat aft, or close aft.
ECOUTILLE _qui s’emboîte_, a hatchway with a scuttle which covers its
border,
ECOUTILLES, the hatchways and scuttles in a ship’s deck.
ECOUTILLES _à huit pans_, ECOUTILLES _du mât_, the holes and partners
of the mast.
ECOUTILLON, a scuttle, or small hatchway; also its cover.
ECOUVILLON, the spunge of a cannon.
ECOUVILLONNER, to spunge the inside of a cannon; to clean or cool it
with a wet spunge.
ECRITURES, the papers of a ship, comprehending journals, registers,
passports, &c.
ECRIVAIN, the clerk of a ship of war; also the supercargo of a
merchant-ship.
ECRIVAIN _emploié aux constructions_, the clerk of the cheque of a
dock-yard.
ECRIVAIN _de la corderie_, the clerk of the rope-yard.
ECUBIERS, the hawse-holes; also the hawse-pieces, through which those
holes are cut.
ECUEIL, a dangerous rock or shoal.
ECUELLE _de cabestan_, the iron socket or sawcer of the capstern.
ECUME, the froth or foam of a breaking sea.
ECUMER _la mer_, to scour or infest the sea, as a pirate.
ECUSSON, ECU _des armes_, a compartment or scutcheon upon the stern,
fore-castle, or belfry, upon which the arms of the ship’s owner, or
of the province or city from which her name is derived, are painted
or carved. These are more peculiar to the French and Dutch than
English vessels.
EFFACER, to bring the broadside to bear upon some adjacent object, by
clapping a spring upon the cable.
EFFLOTER, to part company, or separate at sea, as from a fleet or
other ship.
EGOUTTOIR, a grating, or drain, wherein to lay cordage after it is
tarred.
EGUILLES _de tré_. See AIGUILLES.
EGUILLETTES, or rather AIGUILLETTES, the futtock-riders.
EGUILLETTES, knittles, or small robands; also the loops or buttons of
a bonnet.
EGUILLETTES _de mâts_. See ENTENNES.
EGUILLETTES _de pontons_, the cleats, or timber-heads on the gunnel of
a pontoon, whereto the relieving-tackles are hooked in the act of
careening a ship.
ELANCEMENT, or QUETE, the rake of a ship: the former of these terms is
always applied to the stem, and the latter to the stern-post. See
QUETE.
ELARGIR, to give chase; also to fly from a pursuing enemy.
_S’_ELEVER, to stand out to sea; also to claw off from a lee-shore.
_S’_ELEVER _en latitude_. See HAUTEUR.
ELINGUER, to sling a cask, bale, or box.
ELINGUES, slings of any kind.
ELINGUES _à pattes_, can-hooks.
ELINGUET, the pawl of a capstern or windlas.
ELME, a meteor, called by English seamen a corposant. See FEU
_Saint-Elme_.
EMBANQUÉ, to be upon a fishing-bank, as those of Newfoundland.
EMBARDER, to sheer on one side or the other; to yaw, or steer
obliquely. See ELANCER.
EMBARGO, an imbargo.
EMBARQUEMENT, an embarkation.
EMBARQUER, to ship, to put goods, stores, &c. on shipboard.
_S’_EMBARQUER, to embark, or enter a ship.
EMBELLE, the gangway, or that part of the gunnel which is in the waist
of a ship from the gangway to the chess-tree, or fore-castle.
EMBODINURE, or EMBOUDINURE, the puddening of an anchor.
EMBOSSER, to anchor, or moor a ship.
EMBOSSURE, a knot formed on the end of a rope, to which a laniard is
fastened; also a bend, by which one rope is fastened to another.
EMBOSSURES, a general name for moorings, stoppers, lashings, and
laniards.
EMBOUCHURE, the mouth of a river; also the entrance or opening of a
bay or gulph.
EMBOUFFETÉ, clinch-work.
EMBOUQUER, to enter into a streight or passage, through several
islands.
EMBRAQUER, to haul, or rowse any rope into a ship; to haul aboard a
rope.
EMBROUILLER _les voiles_, to brail up, clue up, or take in the sails.
EMBRUMÉ, foggy weather.
EMMARINÉ, hardened to the sea; as
_Matelot_ EMMARINÉ, a case-hardened or weather-beaten tar; a veteran
sailor.
EMMARINER _un vaisseau_, to mann a ship, or furnish her with seamen.
EMMIELLER _un étai_, to worm a stay.
EMMORTOISER, to fill up a mortise with its tenon.
EMPANNER. See METTRE _en panne_.
EMPATER, to make a scarf; to scarf two pieces of timber together.
EMPATURE, the scarf of two ends of plank or timber.
EMPECHÉ, _un manœuvre_ EMPECHÉ, foul, or entangled; an epithet applied
to a rope, or tackle, in that situation.
EMPENNELLE, a small anchor sunk ahead of a larger one, to which it is
fastened by a small hawser, or tow-line, to prevent the large anchor
from loosening, or coming home to the ship.
EMPENNELLER, to carry out the _empennelle_.
EMPESER _la voile_, _la mouiller_, to wet the sails, in order to hold
the wind better.
EMPIRANCE, the diminution of a ship’s cargo, by waste, decay, or
damage, when it is found deficient at the time of delivery.
EMPORTER, to carry away a mast; as, _le grand mât fut emporté_, the
main-mast was carried away, or, overboard.
EMPOULETTE. See HORLOGE.
ENCABANEMENT, the tumbling-home of a ship’s side, or narrowing of her
breadth from the lower-deck-beam upwards to the gunnel.
ENCAPÉ, embayed, or entered between two capes.
ENCASTILLAGE, the elevation of the fore-castle and quarter-deck,
together with all the height of a ship above the gunnel of her
waist.
ENCASTILLÉ, deep-waisted, or frigate-built; as opposed to
galley-built.
ENCLAVER, to let into a rabbit; as the garboard-streak is let into the
keel.
ENCOGNURE, the elbow or angle of a knee or standard.
ENCOMBREMENT, cumbersome or unwieldy goods, that embarrass the stowage
of a merchant-ship.
ENCOQUER, to fix or slide on, as an iron ring, block-strop, or the eye
of a brace-pendant is fixed upon a yard-arm.
ENCOQUURE, the situation of an eye of a pendant, or studding-sail
boom-iron, fixed on a yard arm.
ENCORNAIL, the sheave-hole in a top-mast-head, through which the
top-sail-tye is reeved, to hoist or lower the top-sail along the
mast.
ENCOUTURÉ, clinch-work. See also EMBOUFFETÉ.
ENDENTÉ, dove-tailed, indented.
ENDORMI, out of the sailing-trim; spoken of a ship which has lost her
usual velocity, or trim. See ERRE.
ENFILER _les cables en virant_, to heave in the cables by the
capstern.
ENFLECHURES, the rattlings of the shrouds.
ENFLEMENT, a swell, a rough or swelling sea, produced by a storm, &c.
ENGAGÉ, an indented servant, who engages to serve a limited time, to
defray the expence of his voyage to a distant country.
ENGAGEMENT, the contract, or articles of agreement between the seamen
and the commander of a merchant-ship.
ENGINS, frigates of war; a general name for those ships of war which
are too small for the line of battle.
ENGRAISSEMENT, _joindre du bois par_ ENGRAISSEMENT, to drive forcibly
into a mortise; to fit a piece of wood so exactly, that no vacancy
shall be left on any side.
ENGRENER _la pompe_, to pump the water out of a ship’s bottom.
ENJALER _une ancre_, to stock, or fix the stock upon, an anchor.
ENLACURE, the bolting of a tenon into its mortise, by boring a hole
and driving a bolt through both, to unite them more securely.
ENMANCHÉ, entered or arrived, into the channel.
ENSEIGNE _de vaisseau_, an officer under the lieutenant, who executes
his duty in his absence; also the ensign of a ship.
ENTAILLE, the rabbit or mortise by which one piece of timber is let
into another.
ENTENNES, the props, or out-riggers, fixed on the side of a
sheer-hulk, to support the sheers.
ENTER, to join two pieces of wood, as by scarfing, rabbiting, or
placing them butt-and-butt.
ENTERRER _les futailes_, to stow the water-casks of a ship in the
ballast.
ENTRÉE _d’une riviere_. See EMBOUCHURE.
ENTREMISES, small wedges, or chocks, placed between the whelps of a
capstern, to keep them firm in their places.
ENTREPOT, a commercial harbour, where a magazine or storehouse is
established, for the reception and exportation of goods; also a
factory, or society of merchants, in a trading sea-port.
ENTREPRENEUR, a contractor for building and furnishing a ship,
completely fitted according to stated dimensions.
ENTRER _dans le port_, to sail into the harbour.
ENTRE SABORDS, the planks which form the intervals between the ports
of a ship’s side.
ENTRE-TOISE, the transoms of a gun-carriage, used at sea.
ENVERGUER, to bend a sail to its yard: this phrase is also frequently
used for bending a stay-sail to its stay.
ENVERGURE, the dimensions of the sails with regard to their extent
upon the yards: hence _une grande_ ENVERGURE, implies very square
sails.
ENVOIE, the order to the helmsman to put the helm a-lee, in order to
bring the ship head to wind.
EPARS _du pavillon_, the flag-staff, or ensign-staff.
EPAVES. See CHOSES _de la mer_.
EPAULES _d’un vaisseau_, the bows of a ship.
EPAULEMENT _d’un tenon_, the shoulder of a tenon, which enters a
mortise.
EPAURES, or EPAVRES, the ledges upon which the fore sheets and
stern-sheets of a boat are framed.
EPÉES, handspikes. Se BARRES _de virevaut_.
EPERON, or POULAINE, the cut-water, or knee of the head, which is
composed of several pieces, as _la gorgere_, _le digon_, _les
jottereaux_, _la courbe capucine_, & _les herpes_. See GORGERE, &c.
EPINEUX, rocky above water; full of rocks and breakers.
EPISSER, to splice a rope.
EPISSOIR, or CORNET _d’épisse_, a marline-spike, or splicing fid of
hard wood.
EPISSURE, a splice of any kind.
EPISSURE _courte_, a short splice.
EPISSURE _longue_, a long splice.
EPITE, a small pin or wedge, driven into the end of a tree-nail, to
fill it.
EPITIÉ, a shot-garland, on the ship’s side between the guns.
EPONTILLE, a stanchion. See BATAYOLLES.
EPONTILLES _d’entre pont_, the stanchions between decks.
EQUIPAGE, the crew of a ship of war, comprehending the officers,
sailors, ordinary mariners, and boys; but exclusive of the captain,
lieutenant, and ensign.
EQUIPAGE _d’attelier_, a general name for the machinery and furniture
of a dock-yard, or shipwright’s wharf, as cranes, gins, screws, &c.
EQUIPAGE _de pompe_, the pump-gear, or furniture of the pumps.
EQUIPE, the number or set of boats belonging to one waterman or
wherryman.
EQUIPEMENT, the fitting out of a ship, or furnishing her with men,
provisions, stores, &c.
EQUIPER, to man, arm, and provide a ship with whatever is necessary to
prosecute war, or commerce; exclusive, however, of the cargo itself.
ERISSON, a grappling, or anchor with four claws, used in low-built
vessels, particularly galleys.
ERRE, the sailing trim of a ship, or the state by which she is best
qualified for the purpose of sailing.
ERSE _de poulie_. See ESTROPE.
ERSES, or ÉTROPES _d’afût_, the strops or eye-bolts in the train of a
gun-carriage, to which the relieving-tackles are hooked.
ESCADRE, a squadron of ships of war.
ESCALE. See ECALE.
ESCANDOLA, the cabin of the _argousin_ of a row-galley.
ESCARBITE, a caulker’s oil-box, or the case which contains thrums
steeped in oil, to clean his irons when he is at work.
ESCARPÉ, steep-to; expressed of a shore which may be approached
without danger.
ESCARPINE, a fire-arm, resembling a cohorn, used at sea.
ESCHILON. See ECHILON.
ESCOPE, or rather ECOPE, a skeet to wet the sails, or the ship’s side.
See ECOPE.
ESCOT, the aftmost lower corner of a lateen sail.
ESPALE, the aftmost bank or thwart of a row-galley.
ESPALIER, the person who rows with the handle of the oar, or who is at
the inner extremity, and rises at every stroke to guide it.
ESPALMER, to pay the bottom of a vessel with soap, &c. after having
breamed her.
ESPOIR, a small piece of artillery, formed of brass, mounted on the
deck of a ship, more particularly the _caraques_ of Portugal.
ESPONTON, a sort of half-pike, employed to defend a ship from the
assault of boarding.
ESPOULETTE, a tin canteen, or case, to carry fine powder to the
cannon, in the time of battle.
ESQUAINS, the quick-work, or the planks laid upon that part of a
ship’s side which is above the spirketting of the quarter-deck and
fore-castle.
ESQUIF, a skiff, yawl, or small boat belonging to a ship.
ESSES, the forelocks which are driven through the axletrees of the
gun-carriages, to confine the wheels in their proper places.
ESSIEU, or rather AISSIEU, _d’affut de bord_, the axis of a
gun-carriage, by which it rests upon the wheels.
ESSUIEUX. See ECOUVILLON.
ESTAINS, the fashion-pieces of the stern.
ESTANCE _à taquets_, a Sampson’s-post. See also PIÉDROIT.
ESTANCES. See EPONTILLES _d’entre-pont_.
ESTERRE, a small haven or creek.
ESTIME, the dead-reckoning.
_Erreur dans l’_ESTIME, the errors of a dead-reckoning.
ESTIVE, the trim or disposition of the cargo, by which the ship swims
upright, inclining to neither side.
ESTOUPIN, ETOUPIN, or VALET, the vent of a cannon, formed of oakum.
ESTRAN, a name sometimes given to a flat and sandy sea-coast.
ESTRAPADE _marine_, a naval punishment. See CALE.
ESTRAPONTIN, an Indian hammock. See HAMAC.
ESTRIBORD, or STRIBORD. See STRIBORD.
ESTROPER, to reeve a rope through any block.
ESTROPES, a general name for block-strops.
ESTROPES _d’affut_. See ERSES.
ESTROPES _de marche-pieds_, the stirrups of the horses.
ETABLI _sur ses amarres_, settled, moored, or stationed in a port.
ÉTAI, the stay of a mast.
ÉTAI _du grand mât_, or _grand etai_, the main-stay.
ÉTAI _du grand mât de hune_, the main-top-mast-stay.
ÉTAI _du grand perroquet_, the main-top-gallant-stay.
ÉTAI _du mât d’artimon_, the mizen-stay.
ÉTAI _du mât de hune d’avant_, the fore-top-mast-stay.
ÉTAI _du misaine_, or _du mât de misaine_, the fore-stay.
ÉTAI _de perroquet d’artimon_, or _de foule_, the mizen-top-mast-stay,
ÉTAI _de voile d’étai_, a stay-sail-stay.
_Faux_-ÉTAI, a preventer-sail.
ETALER, to anchor during the interval of a contrary tide, in a foul
wind, with intent to pursue the course the next favourable tide.
ETALINGUE, the part of a cable which is bent to the anchor.
ETALINGUER, to bend the cable to its anchor.
ETAMBOT, the stern-post of a ship.
ETAMBRAIES, the holes or scuttles in a ship’s decks, through which the
masts are let down; also the partners of the mast.
ETAMINE, buntine; a cloth of which a ship’s colours are made.
ETANCHER, to stop a leak; also to pump the water out of a ship.
ETANÇONS, a sort of stanchions.
ETAPE, a mart, or place of public sale for merchandise; also a
commercial port.
ETARCURE, the drop or depth of a sail.
ETAT _d’armement_, a list, or register, containing the number of
ships, and of officers, destined for a naval armament; as also the
quality and proportion of cordage, sails, and furniture of a ship,
&c.
_Capitaine du grand_ ETAT, a captain of a ship of the line of battle.
_Capitaine du petit_ ETAT, a master and commander.
ETENDARD, the royal standard, carried by the principal galley of
France.
ETÉSIES, or _vents_ ETÉSIENS, trade-winds, or monsoons.
ÉTOUPE, oakum, or oakham.
ÉTOUPE _blanche_, white oakum, or that which is formed of untarred
ropes.
ÉTOUPE _goudronnée_, black oakum, or oakum made of tarred ropes.
ETRAQUE, the limited breadth of a streak, or plank, used in
ship-building.
ETRAQUE _de gabord_, the garboard-streak, or the breadth of the streak
next to the keel.
ETRAVE, the stem of a ship.
ETRE _à flot_, the state of being buoyed up by the water.
ETRE _à la gamelle_, to mess with the common sailors.
ETRE _au dessus du vent_. See AVANTAGE _du vent_.
ETRE _banqué_, or _débanqué_, to be upon, or off, the grand bank of
Newfoundland.
ETRE _dans les eaux d’un vaisseau_, to be in the wake of a ship.
ETRE _de bout au vent_. See ALLER _de bout au vent_.
ETRE _flanc à flanc_. See PROLONGER.
ETRE _pratique de la mer_, to be accustomed or inured to the sea.
ETRIER, the lower link of the chains of a shroud, which is bolted to
the wales.
ETRIERS, strops formed of a piece of rope. See ESTROPES.
ETUVE, a stove in a dock-yard, fitted with furnaces and cauldrons, for
tarring cordage, &c.
EVENT, the vent of a cannon, or difference between the diameter of the
bore and the diameter of the shot.
EVENTER _les voiles_, to fill the sails.
EVITÉE, the channel of a river, or the breadth of a channel.
EVITÉE, a birth, or sufficient space to let a ship swing round at the
length of her mooring.
EVITÉE is also the birth or space between two ships at anchor, or
between one ship and some neighbouring object; likewise the sweep or
swing of a ship round her anchor, at the length of her cable.
EVITER _à marée_, to stem the tide or current.
EVITER _au vent_, to carry the head to windward, to stem the wind.
EVOLUTIONS, the movements of a fleet in forming the line of battle, or
the orders of retreat, or sailing.
EXERCICE, the naval exercise, or the preparatory practice of
unmooring, setting sail, stowing the anchors, &c.
EXERCICE _du canon_, the exercise of the great guns.
EXPEDITION _maritime_, a cruise or long voyage at sea.
F.
FABRIQUE, the particular built or structure of a ship, either with
regard to her figure, or the place where she was fabricated.
FABRIQUER, to build or construct a ship.
FAÇONS, the narrowing of a ship’s floor afore and abaft.
FAGOT. See BARQUE.
FAIRE _abattre_. See ABATTRE.
FAIRE _abordage_. See ABORDAGE.
FAIRE _aiguade_, or FAIRE _de l’eau_, to water a ship, or procure the
provision of water necessary for a voyage, &c.
FAIRE _bon bord_, or _bonne bordée_, to make a good board or tack,
when turning to windward.
FAIRE _canal_, to sail through a streight or narrow channel. This
phrase is more peculiar to the gallies than other vessels.
FAIRE _capot_, to overset, or overturn, at sea.
FAIRE _chapelle_. See CHAPELLE.
FAIRE _chaudiere_, to cook and prepare the seamens victuals.
FAIRE _courir_, or _recourir la bouline_, or _toute autre manœuvre_,
to let run, or over-haul the bowline, or any other rope.
FAIRE _dégrat_, to quit a station, on the banks of Newfoundland, where
there are few fish, in order to search for a better fishing place.
FAIRE _des feux_, to hang out lanthorns, as signals of distress, in
different places of a ship, in the night.
FAIRE _du bois_, _du biscuit_, _du vin_, _de la farine_, &c. to
furnish a ship with the provision of wood, bread, wine, flour, &c.
FAIRE _eau_, to leak, to make water.
FAIRE _escale_, to touch at any intermediate port in the course of a
voyage.
FAIRE _feu des deux bords_, to cannonade, or fire on an enemy, from
both sides of a ship.
FAIRE _filer un cable_, to pay out a larger scope of cable.
FAIRE _force de voiles_, to make sail, to croud sail.
FAIRE _force de voiles & rames_, to croud sail and exert all the force
of the oars.
FAIRE _gouverner_, to cunn the ship, or observe that the helmsman
steers the ship right.
FAIRE _honneur à une roche ou a quelqu’autre danger_, to give birth to
a rock or other dangerous object in a ship’s course.
FAIRE _la course_. See ALLER _en course_.
FAIRE _la grande bordée_, to set the half-watch, or the watch of half
the ship’s crew, as at sea.
FAIRE _le petit bordée_. See BORDÉE.
FAIRE _le nord_, _le sud_, &c. to stand to the northward, southward,
&c.
FAIRE _pavillon_, to carry a broad pendant, as the commodore or
commander in chief of a squadron, &c.
FAIRE _pavillon_, or _banniere d’une nation_, to hoist or shew the
colours.
FAIRE _pavillon blanc_, to display a flag of truce.
FAIRE _petites voiles_, to be under small sails, to carry little sail.
FAIRE _plus de voiles_, to make sail, to make more sail.
FAIRE _quarantaine_, to perform quarantine.
FAIRE _route_, to stand onward on the course.
FAIRE _sa route en droiture_. See ALLER _en droiture_.
FAIRE _servir_, to fill the sails; to make sail, after having lain by
for some time.
FAIRE _servir les voiles_, to brace about and fill.
FAIRE _son quart_. See QUART.
FAIRE _téte_, to carry the head to a current or wind.
FAIRE _une descente_, to invade, or make a descent upon, an enemy’s
country.
FAIRE _voiles_ or _voile_, to depart and set sail; to be under sail.
FAIS COURIR, keep her full! the order to the helmsman to steer the
ship so as not to shake in the wind when close hauled.
FAIT, fixed, or set-in; an epithet applied to the wind, when it is
supposed to be settled for a time.
FAIX, or FAIX _de pont_. See ILOIRES.
FALAISE, a steep and bold shore.
FALAISER, to break or burst over the rocks, &c. understood of the
waves upon a sea coast.
FANAL, a light-house on the sea-coast. See PHARE.
FANAL is also the poop or quarter-lanthorn of a ship.
FANAL _de hune_, the top-lanthorn.
FANAL _de soute_, the light-room of a ship’s magazine.
FANAUX _de combat_, the lanthorns used between the guns, in time of
battle.
FANAUX _pour signaux_, signal-lanthorns.
FANON, the balance of the mizen.
FARAILLON, a small sand-bank.
FARAIS, a sort of nets for fishing of coral.
FARDAGE, the dinnage laid in a ship’s hold, when she is to be laden
with a cargo of corn, fast, &c.
FARE. See PHARE.
FARGUES, or FARDES, the sides of a ship’s waist, from the main-deck
upwards to the gunnel.
FASIER, to shiver the sails. See BARBEYER.
FAUBER, a swab. Whence
FAUBERTER, to swab a ship’s decks, &c.
FAUSSE _écoute_. See ÉCOUTES _de bonnettes en étui_.
FAUSSE _étrave_, or rather CONTRE _étrave_, the stemson.
FAUSSE _galerie_, a quarter-badge.
FAUSSE _quille_, a piece of timber placed on the top of the keel, in
the interval between the dead-wood afore and abaft: also the false
keel.
FAUSSES _lances_, wooden guns, fixed on a ship’s side to deceive an
enemy in time of war.
FAUX _coté_, the side of a ship which heels most when she is
lap-sided, or is not trimmed upright by her cargo.
FAUX _étai_, a preventer-main-stay.
FAUX _étais_, a general name for the stay-sail-stays.
FAUX _étambot_, the back of the stern-post.
FAUX _feux_, signals made by false fires.
FAUX _pont_, the orlop-deck, or platform.
FAUX _racage_, a preventer-parrel, used to confine the yard to the
mast, in case the parrel should be shot away in battle. This machine
is never used in English shipping.
FAUX _ringot_. See SAFRAN.
FAUX _sabords_, false ports, painted in a ship’s side, to deceive an
enemy. See FAUSSES _lances_.
FAYFENA, a sort of Japonese galley, which usually rows with about
thirty oars.
FELOUQUE, an Italian felucca.
FEMELLES, the googings used to hang the rudder on the stern-post.
FÉMELOTS, the googings of a boat’s rudder, &c.
FER, a name given to an anchor in a row-galley.
FER _de chandelier de pierrier_, the socket in which the swivel of a
pedrero rests and traverses.
FER _de girouette_, the spindle which supports the vane at the
mast-head.
FERLER, to furl, hand, or stow the sails.
FERMETURE. See the subsequent article.
FERMURES, the planks of a ship’s side in the intervals between the
wales.
FERRURE, the iron-work of a ship, as chains, bolts, spikes, nails, &c.
FERRURE _de chaloupe_, the iron-work employed to fit the mast, boom,
and rudder of a long-boat.
FERRURE _de gouvernail_, the pintles and googings of a ship’s rudder.
FERRURE _de sabords_, the hinges of the gun-ports.
FERS _d’arcboutans_, or _boute de hors_, the goose-neck of a
studding-sail-boom; also the fork of a fire-boom.
FERS _pour les criminels_, bilboes, or fetters, to confine criminals.
FESSES, a name usually given to the buttocks, or prominent quarters,
of a Dutch flight or cat.
FEU _grégeois_, an artificial fire, or inflammable composition, used
sometimes to burn an enemy’s ship in battle.
FEU _saint Elme_, a corposant, sometimes called Castor and Pollux.
FEUX _d’artifice_, artificial fires used at sea.
FICHURE, a fish-gig, or staff with several grains or prongs, used to
strike fish at sea. See FOESNE.
FIGALE, an Indian vessel with one mast, usually rowed with oars.
FIGULES, or FIGURES. See ENFLECHURES.
FIL _de carret_, a rope-yarn.
FIL _de voile, de tré, ou de trévier_, twine for sail-making.
FILADIERE, a small flat-bottomed boat used on the Garonne.
FILANDRES, sea-weeds which adhere to a ship’s bottom that has been
long at sea.
FILARETS, rails used to extend the nettings on a ship’s quarter,
waist, or fore-castle.
FILE _bouline_, check the bowline! the order to ease-off, or let go
the bowline, when the ship veers before the wind.
_Ne_ FILE _plus, amarre_, keep fast the cable! stopper the cable! veer
no more!
FILER, to slacken, or lower gradually.
FILER _du cable_, to veer out, or veer away the cable.
FILER _de l’écoute_, to ease-off a sheet.
FILER _le cable bout par bout_, to veer away the cable to the end, to
veer out the cable end for end.
FILER _les manœuvres_. See LARGUER.