FILER _toute l’écoute_, to let fly a sheet, as in a squall of wind
which endangers the ship.
FILET, a sort of moulding on a ship’s side.
FILET _de merlin_, a marling; a small line so called. See MERLIN.
FILEUX, or TAQUET. See TAQUET.
FIN _de voiles_, swift of sailing.
FISCAL, or _Avocat_-FISCAL, an officer whose duty is similar to that
of the judge-advocate of a court-martial at sea.
FISOLERES, small boats used by the Venetians, one of which is often
carried by the waterman who manages it, upon his shoulders.
FISOLLE, or FICELLE, whipping-twine; also a fox, formed of a single
rope-yarn.
FLAMBEAU _de mer_, a title given to a book of sea-charts, coasts,
soundings, &c.
FLAMME, a broad-pendant, displayed as a mark of distinction, ornament,
or signal.
FLAMMEROLES. See FEU _saint Elme_.
FLANC _de vaisseau_, the side of a ship.
_Etre_ FLANC _à_ FLANC, to lie alongside of, to be
broadside-and-broadside.
FLASQUES, the cheeks or sides of a gun-carriage.
FLECHE _de l’eperon_. See HERPES and LISSES _de poulaine_.
FLETTE, a sort of punt, or flat-bottomed boat, used for the passage of
a river, or carrying goods, &c.
_A_ FLEUR _d’eau_, level with the surface of the water.
FLEURS, those parts of a ship which lie at the floor-heads, or the
upper-ends of the floor-timbers.
FLIBOT, a small Dutch vessel, which usually carries about one hundred
tons, and has a main-mast and fore-mast, without any top-mast.
FLIBUSTIERS, or CORSAIRES, freebooters or bucaneers.
Florer _un vaisseau_, or _lui donner les_ FLEURS, to pay a ship’s
bottom; to give her a clean bottom by careening, &c.
FLOT, FLOTS, the surge or waves of the sea.
_Abandonner un vaisseau à la merci des_ FLOTS, to let a ship drive at
the mercy of the waves and winds.
FLOT, the flood-tide.
_Demi_-FLOT, half-flood.
_Il y à_ FLOT, the tide flows, it is flowing water.
_Etre à_ FLOT, to float, to be afloat upon the water.
_Ligne de_ FLOTTAISON, a line described on the bottom of a ship, by
the surface of the water in which she floats.
FLOTTE, a fleet of ships.
FLOTTER, to swim or float upon the surface of the water.
FLOTTILLE, a small squadron of Spanish ships, usually stationed in
America.
FLUTE, a flight or fly-boat, called also PINQUE, but differing in
shape from the English ship so called.
FLUX & REFLUX, the tides of flood and ebb.
FOC, a jib.
_Le grand_ Foc, the standing jib.
FOESNE, a forked instrument with several prongs and a long handle to
strike fish; it is usually termed grains, or fish-gig, by the
English mariners. See FICHURE.
FOIT _de mât_, the height of a mast, expressed of a very high or taunt
mast.
FONCET, a long flat-bottomed barge, for carrying goods in a river, &c.
FOND, the ground or bottom of the sea.
FOND _d’affut_, the sole or bottom of a gun-carriage.
FOND _de bonne tenüe_, good holding ground, or good anchoring-ground.
FOND _de cale_, the hold of a ship.
FOND _de cours ou cure_, a bottom of fine sand.
FOND _de la hune_, the platform or flooring of the top.
FOND _de mauvaise tenüe_, bad anchoring ground.
FOND _de roche_, rocky ground.
FOND _de son_, a bottom where the sand appears like bran.
FOND _de voile_, the bunt of a sail.
_Point de_ FOND, out of soundings.
FOND _d’aiguilles_, a bottom or ground abounding with pointed shells.
FOND-_haut, ou haut_-FOND, a shoal or high ground, or sand bank.
FOND _d’un basse voile_, the foot of a lower sail.
_Prendre_ FOND, _toucher, relacher_, to anchor or touch at a place in
passing.
_Aller à_ FOND, to sink, to go to the bottom.
_Plat_-FOND _d’un vaisseau_, the floor or bottom of a ship.
FOQUE _de beaupré_, the jib, or flying-jib. See FOC.
FORBAN, a pirate. See PIRATE.
FORCE _de voiles_, _fair_ FORCE _de voiles_, to make sail, to croud
sail.
FORCER _de rames_, _faire_ FORCE _de rames_, to row strongly, so as to
redouble the efforts of the oars.
FORCER _des voiles_, to croud sail, to carry a press of sail.
FOURCHETTE, a pair of sheers, or machine to mast or dismast a ship.
FORME, a wet dock.
FORME _en talud_, a slip, or declivity on the banks of a river, where
ships are built.
FORMES _de vaisseaux_. See BALOIRES.
FORT _de virer_, a term amongst the French common sailors, which
answers to, avast-heaving.
FORTUNE _de mer_, the accidents or disasters of the sea, occasioned by
pirates, shallows, &c.
FORTUNE _de vent_, a tempest or violent storm, in the dialect of
Provence.
_Voile de_ FORTUNE, the square or lug-sail of a galley or tartane, in
the Mediterranean. See TREOU.
FOSSE, a creek or small haven on the sea-coast, where ships may come
to anchor.
FOSSE is also a place out of soundings on the edge of a bank.
FOSSE _au lion_, the boatswain’s store room, in the fore part of a
ship.
FOSSE _aux cables_, the cable stage, or cable tier, in the orlop, &c.
FOSSE _aux mâts_, a place where the masts are kept afloat in salt
water, in a dock-yard.
FOUETTER, to strike or slap back against the mast; expressed of the
sails of a ship, when they are first taken aback.
FOUGON, the cobose, grate, or fire-place of a ship, in the language of
Provence.
FOUGUE, _mât de_ FOUGUE, _ou à foule_, the mizen-mast.
_Vergue de_ FOUGUE, _ou foule_, the cross jack-yard.
FOUGUE, or _perroquet de Fougue_, the mizen-top-sail.
FOULOIR, an instrument which serves as a rammer and spunge of a
cannon.
FOUR, a sort of breast-hook or knee, used to strengthen the bows of a
boat.
FOURCATS, the crotches, placed in the after and fore hold, as
floor-timbers.
FOURCHE _de potence de pompe_, the ears of a pump.
FOURCHES _de carene_, breaming-hooks, or forks used to hold the
flaming furze or faggots to a ship’s bottom when graving.
FOURRER, to serve the cables, as with rounding, keckling, plat, &c.
FOURRURE, a general name for service of leather, plat, canvas, or
ropes.
FOYER, a light-house, a light or fire on the sea coast, to direct
shipping in the night. See PHARE.
FRAICHEUR, a fresh wind or steddy breeze.
FRAICHIR, to freshen, or blow stronger; expressed of an increasing
gale.
FRAIS, a light or small breeze.
FRANC _d’eau_, pumped out, or free of water.
_Rendre le navire_ FRANC _d’eau_, to pump the water out from a ship’s
bottom; to free her by the pump.
FRANC-_funin_, a white hauser or large untarred rope, used for several
purposes.
FRANCHE-_bouline_, upon a bowline, upon a wind, close hauled.
FRANCHIR _la lame_, to head the sea, to sail against the setting of
the sea.
FRANCHIR _l’eau_. See _Rendre le navire_ FRANC, &c.
FRANCHIR _une roche_, to pass over or forge off from a rock, after
having struck, touched, or rested upon it.
FRAPPER, to fix on, or set up the standing-rigging: also to make fast,
when expressed of _large_ ropes; as _amarrer_, to belay, is used in
the same sense for _smaller_ ones.
FRÉGATE, a frigate of war.[60]
FRÉGATE _d’avis_, a sloop of war, packet-boat, or tender.
FRÉGATE _légere_, a light or small frigate, carrying from 30 to 20
guns.
FREGATÉ, _frigate built_, or formed with a deep waist.
FREGATON, a sort of Venetian ketch,
FREINS. See REFREINS.
FRELER, to furl, or hand the sail. See FERLER.
FREQUENTER _un port_, to trade often to one harbour.
FRET, the freight or hire of a ship; called also _fretement_.
FRETER, to freight or hire a ship.
FRETEUR, the proprietor or owner of a ship, to whom the freight for
the merchandize is paid.
FRIBSUTIER. See FLIBUSTIERS.
FRISER _les sabords_, to line the gun-ports with bays or kersey, to
prevent the water from entering at sea.
FRISONS, cans or jugs.
FRONTEAU, the breast-work, a moulding ornamented with sculpture, and
sometimes a sort of balustrade, reaching athwart the ship from one
side to the other, and serving to terminate the quarter-deck and
poop at the fore-end, and the fore-castle both afore and abaft.
FRONTON. See MIROIR.
FUNER _un mât_, to fix the standing-rigging on the mast-head.
FUNIN, cordage of a certain size, which is particularly used for the
running-ropes, and sometimes for the standing-rigging. See
FRANC-_funin_.
FURIN, the offing, the high sea, deep water; as, _Mettre un vaisseau
en_ FURIN, to carry or conduct a ship out to sea, or over the bar,
&c. of a harbour into deep water.
FUSEAUX, or TAQUETS _de cabestan_. See TAQUETS.
FUSÉE _dans un brulot_, the pipe or channel of the train in a
fire-ship.
FUSÉE _d’aviron_, a mouse on the middle of an oar, to confine it in
the strop or grommet.
FUSÉE _de vindas, ou de cabestan volant_, the main-piece or body of
the windlass, into which the handspecks are put.
FUSÉES _de tournevire_, the mouses of the viol.
FUSTE, a low and capacious vessel navigated with sails and oars.
FUT _de girouette_, the vane-stock.
FUTAILLE, the water and provision-casks of a ship.
G.
GABARE, GABARRE, a sort of flat-bottomed lighter or barge, used in the
river Loire, to lade and unlade shipping.
GABARIER, a lighter-man, or the person who conducts the _gabare_.
GABARI, a sort of model to represent the outline and thickness of the
frames of a ship’s timbers. See COUPLE.
_Premier_ GABARI, or rather _maître_ GABARI, the midship-frame.
GABARIS _de l’arriere_, the after-frames.
GABARIS _de l’avant_, the fore-timbers or frames.
GABIE, the top, in the dialect of Provence.
GABIER, the captain of the main, or fore-top.
GABORD, the garboard-streak, or plank next to the keel in a ship’s
bottom.
GABURONS. See JUMELLES.
GACHER, to row, or advance a boat with oars.
GAFFE, a boat-hook. See CROC.
GAFFER, to hook and draw any thing near with a boat-hook.
GAGNER _le vent_, or GAGNER _au vent, &c._ to gain the wind of, to get
to windward of. See AVANTAGE _du vent_.
GAGNER _sur un vaisseau_, to fore-reach or gain upon; to gain ground
of some ship in company.
GAGNER _un port, un havre, un degré de latitude_, to secure a harbour,
or arrive at a rendezvous without interruption.
GAILLARD, or CHATEAU, the elevation of the quarter-deck and
fore-castle.
GAILLARDELETTE, or GALAN, the flag of the fore-mast.
GAILLARDET, a sort of broad pendant displayed at the fore-mast-head.
GAINE _de flamme_, the canvas edging fixed on the head of a pendant,
to contain the stock.
GALAUBANS, the back-stays of the top-masts and top-gallant-masts.
GALÉACE, or GALÉACE, a galléasse, or great galley of Venice.
GALERE, a row-galley.
GALERE _patrone_, the second of the galleys of France, Tuscany, and
Malta.
GALERIE, the gallery or balcony of a ship’s stern, or quarter.
GALERIES _du fond de cale_, certain passages formed close to the
cieling in the hold of a ship of war, for the discovery of leaks.
See ACCOURSIE.
_Fausse_ GALERIES, the badges of the quarters in a small ship.
GALERNE, a north-west wind.
GALET, a sea-coast abounding with flints.
GALETTE, round and flat sea-biscuit.
GALION, a galleon, or Spanish ship of war of the Indian fleet.
GALIOTE, a half galley; also a Dutch fishing vessel.
GALIOTE _à bombes_, a bomb-ketch.
GALIOTE _servant de yacht d’avis_, a packet, or advice-boat.
GALOCHE, a snatch-block; also a hole made in the coamings of a
hatchway, for the cable to rest when the hatches are laid.
GALOCHE likewise implies the stock or frame into which the feet of the
sheet-kevels are fixed by the ship’s side.
GAMBES _de hune_, the futtock-shrouds.
GAMELLE, a bowl or platter to hold the sailors victuals; also a mess
or company of them who eat together.
_Etre à la_ GAMELLE. See ETRE, &c.
GANTERIAS. See BARRES _de hune_.
GARANT, a tackle-fall, or the part upon which they pull in hoisting,
&c.
GARBIN, the south-west wind, in the dialect of Provence.
GARCETTES, a general name for all sorts of platted cordage; as,
_Maîtresse_-GARCETTE, the bunt-gasket, or middle-gasket of a yard.
GARCETTES _de bonnettes_, the keys or buttons of the bonnets.
GARCETTES _de fourrures de cables_, plat for serving the cables.
GARCETTES _de ris_, the reef-points of a sail.
GARCETTES _de tournevire_, the nippers of the cable, by which it is
attached to the viol.
GARCETTES _de voiles_, the gaskets which serve to furl the sails.
GARCONS _de bord_, the ordinary seamen in a ship of war or
merchantman.
GARDES, or QUART, the watch.
GARDE _au mât_, a person who looks out at the mast-head.
GARDE-_corps_, the side, or quarter-nettings of a ship.
GARDE-_côte_, a ship of war which cruises on the coast of a nation, to
protect it from the insults of the enemy or pirates.
GARDE _des côtes_, a military guard, employed to defend the coasts in
time of war.
GARDE-_feux_, powder-chests, or cartridge-chests.
GARDE _de la marine_, a midshipman, or naval cadet.
GARDE-_magasin_, an officer similar to the store-keeper of a
dock-yard.
GARDE-_ménagerie_, a ship’s poulterer, a person who takes care of the
beasts, fowls, &c. in a ship.
GARDER _un vaisseau_, to dog, pursue, or watch the motion of an
enemy’s ship, so as to prevent her from escaping: also to guard and
protect a ship.
GARDIEN _de la fosse à lion_, the boatswain’s yeoman.
GARDIENNERIE, or CHAMBRE _des canoniers_, the gun-room. See
SAINTE-BARBE.
GARDIENS, _matelots_-GARDIENS, the ordinary men of a dock-yard, under
the command of the master attendant.
GARES, certain small docks or retreats, formed on the side of a narrow
canal, to contain boats, that others may pass the more easily.
GARGOUSSE, or GARGOUCHE, the cartridge of a cannon or other fire-arm.
GARGOUSSIERES, a cartridge-box, or cartouch-box, for small arms.
GARITTES, the top-brims, or top-rims.
GARNIR, or rather GRÉER. See GRÉER.
GARNIR _le cabestan_, to rig the capstern, by fixing the viols, bars,
pins, and swifter, to be ready for heaving.
GARNITURE, the standing, and running-rigging of a ship, together with
the services of the yards.
GATTE, the manger of a ship.
GAVITEAU, a buoy, in the dialect of Provence. See BOUÉE.
GENOU _de la rame_, the loom of an oar.
GENOUX _de fond_, the lower futtocks of the timbers.
GENOUX _de porques_, the lower futtock-riders.
GENS _de l’équipage_. See EQUIPAGE.
GENS _de mer_, a general name for mariners.
GENS _du munitionnaire_, the steward’s crew or assistants.
GERSEAU, a block-strop. See ESTROPE.
GIBELOT, the standard which fastens the cut-water to the stem; called
also, and more properly, COURBE _capucine_.
GINDANT. See GUINDANT.
GIROUETTES, vanes of the mast-head.
GIROUETTES _quarées_, very broad vanes.
GISSEMENT, the bearings of coasts or latitudes, with respect to each
other, or to some distant object.
GIST. See the preceding article.
GLAÇONS, or _bancs de glace_, flakes, or islands of ice.
GOLFE, a gulf of the sea, as of Mexico, of Lyons, &c.
GONDS, the gudgeons by which the rudder is hung to the stern-post. See
FERRURE _de gouvernail_.
GONDOLE, a gondola of Venice.
GONDOLIERS, the master and crew of a gondola.
GONNE, a sea-cask somewhat larger than a barrel.
GORET, GORRET, a hog, or large brush to scrub the ship’s bottom under
water.
GORETER, to hog a vessel, to apply the hog.
GORGERE, _ou_ TAILLEMER, the foremost and lowest part of the
cut-water, or knee of the head.
GOUDRON, or GOUDRAN, tar.
GOUDRONNER, to tar a ship, or pay her sides with tar.
GOUFFRE, a gulf, race, or whirlpool; as the race of Portland, &c.
GOUJURE, the notch or channel cut round the outside of a block or
dead-eye, to receive the strop or rope which is fixed therein.
GOUJURE _de chouquet_, the hole on a cap, through which the haliards
of a sail is sometimes reeved.
GOULET, the strait entrance of a harbour.
GOUPILLE, the forelock of a bolt. See CLAVETTE.
GOURDIN, a cobbing-board, used to punish the slaves in the gallies.
GOURMETTE, a ship-boy, servant, or apprentice, in the dialect of
Provence; also a watchman appointed by the merchants to take care of
the goods in a lighter till they are shipped or landed.
GOURNABLES, tree-nails.
GOURNABLER _un vaisseau_, to drive the tree-nails into a ship’s sides.
GOUTIERE, or TIRE-POINT, the water ways of the decks.
GOUVERNAIL, the helm or rudder of a ship.
GOUVERNE _ou tu as le cap, ou à tel air de vent_, thus boy, thus! or,
steddy as you go! the order to steer the ship exactly as she stems,
or carries her head.
GOUVERNEMENT, the navigation or steerage of a ship.
GOUVERNER, to steer a ship or boat.
GOUVERNER _au nord_, to steer northward.
GOUVERNEUR, _ou_ TIMONNIER, the helmsman, the steersman.
GRAIN _de vent_, a sudden squall of wind or rain, or of both.
GRAIN _pesant_, a heavy or violent squall.
GRAND _mât_, the main-mast of a ship or boat.
GRAPPIN, a grappling or grapnel.
GRAPPIN _à main, ou_ GRAPPIN _d’abordage_, a fire-grappling, or
grappling of the yard-arm.
GRAPPINER, to warp a vessel towards a flake of ice, by grapplings and
ropes.
GRAS _de mer_, discoloured water at the mouth of a river, &c.
GRASSE-_bouline_. See BOULINE.
GRATTER _un vaisseau_, to scrape a ship; whence,
GRATOIR, a scraper.
GRAVE, a platform of flints, &c. whereon to dry fish in Newfoundland.
GRÉEMENT, a general name for the rigging, comprehending also the
masts, yards, and the sails when they are bent.
GRÉER, to rig a ship, or fit her with rigging, blocks, yards, sails,
&c.
GRELIN, a hauser, or stream-cable.
GRENADE _à main_, a grenade of iron or glass.
GRENIER, the floor-cieling of a ship, or a cieling which reaches only
from the kelson to the floor-heads.
_Charger en_ GRENIER. See CHARGER, _&c._
GREVE, a flat, low, and sandy shore.
GRIBANE, a small vessel navigated on the coast of Normandy, and
carrying a main-mast and fore-mast, without any tops.
GRIGNON, sea-bread called rusks, common in Holland and Denmark.
GRIP, a small vessel resembling a schooner or shallop.
GROS _d’un vaisseau_, the breadth, or extreme breadth of a ship.
GROS _temps_, a hard gale of wind, blowing weather, foul or squally
weather.
GROSSE _avanture_, bottomry.
GRUE, a crane with a wheel, used on wharfs and keys.
GUÉRLANDES. See GUIRLANDE.
GUET _de la mer_. See GARDE _des côtes_.
GUI, the main-boom of a sloop; also the fore-boom of a schooner.
GUINDAGE, the act of hoisting with tackles in general, but more
particularly with regard to the lading or unlading a ship; also the
money paid to those who are employed in such exercises.
GUINDAGES likewise imply the tackles, and other machines used in
lading, &c.
GUINDANT _d’un pavillon_, the hoist or height of an ensign or flag.
GUINDAS, the windlass. See VIREVAUT.
GUINDER, to sway up a top-mast.
GUINDERESSE, a top-rope, used to sway up, or lower the top-mast.
GUIRLANDES, the breast-hooks in a ship’s bow.
GUISPON, a brush used to pay the ship’s bottom with soap, tar, &c.
GUITERNE, a prop or shoar to support the sheers which are employed to
mast a ship, or take out her masts.
GUITRAN, a sort of bitumen, or pitch, used to pay a ship’s bottom.
GUMES, or GUMERES, a general name given in Provence to all large
ropes; as hausers, cables, &c.
H.
HABIT _de bord_, sea-cloaths, as jackets, trowsers, &c.
HABITACLE, the binacle.
HACHE _coignée_, an ax or hatchet, used by ship-wrights, &c.
HACHE _d’armes_, a pole-axe or battle-axe, used for boarding an
enemy’s ship.
HACHER, to hew or chop with an axe.
HALAGE, the tracking or towing a ship from one place to another.
HALE _à-bord_, the boat rope, or guess-rope of a boat’s moorings.
HALE-_bas_, a down-haul, or down-haul tackle.
HALE-_bouline_, a fresh-water sailor.
HALER, to haul or pull upon any rope.
HALER _le vent_, to haul the wind, or come nearer to its direction.
HALER _à la cordelle_, to warp a ship from one place to another.
HALEUR, a person who tracks a boat by a rope reaching ashore and
fastened round his waist.
HAMAC, a hammoc.
HANCHE, the quarter of a ship.
HANGARD, a shed or store house in a dock-yard, wherein the masts and
pieces of timber are covered from the weather, and ranged in order.
HANSIERE. See AUSSIERE.
HARPIN, a boat-hook. See CROC.
HARPON, a harpoon, used for striking whales.
HARPONNEUR, an harponeer, who strikes the whale.
HARPONS, are also sharp cutting-hooks, lashed to the yard-arms to
destroy the enemies rigging, in the act of boarding.
HAUBAN _de voile d’etai_, the guy of a lower-studding-sail-boom, or of
the main-boom of a brig, sloop, or schooner.
HAUBANER, to fasten the stay of a gin, triangle, or such sort of
machine, to a stake or peg.
HAUBANS, the shrouds of the masts.
HAUBANS _de beaupré_, the standing-lifts of the sprit-sail-yard.
HAUBANS _de chaloupe_, the gripes or lashings of the boats, by which
they are fastened to the decks at sea.
HAVRE, an haven, or harbour.
HAVRE-_brut_, an harbour formed by nature.
HAVRE _de toutes marées_, a port accessible at any time of the tide.
HAUSSER _un vaisseau_, to raise a distant ship by approaching her
gradually in chace.
HAUSSIERE. See AUSSIERE.
HAUT _& bas_, the order to the men at the pump to take long strokes,
which will not so readily fatigue them as the short ones, which are
quicker.
HAUT-_pendu_, a small cloud charged with a heavy squall.
HAUTE-_mer_, the offing.
_Vaisseau en_ HAUTE-_mer_, a ship in the offing.
HAUTE-_marée_, _le vif de l’eau_, _pleine-marée_, high-water, a
spring-tide, a spring-flood.
HAUTE-_somme_, contingent-money, expended on account of any
extraordinary charges.
HAUTES-_voiles_, the top-sails and top-gallant-sails.
HAUTEUR, _ou_ LATITUDE, the distance of any place in degrees, from the
equinoctal. See LATITUDE.
HAUTEUR _de l’étambot_, the height of the stern-post.
HAUTEUR _de l’étrave_, the height of the stem.
HAUTEUR _entre deux ponts_, the height between decks.
HAUTS _d’un vaisseau_, the heights or eminences of a ship.
_Mettre les mâts de hune_ HAUTS, to sway up the top-masts, to get the
top-masts an end.
HAUTURIER, or _pilote_-HAUTURIER, a pilot who directs the ship’s
course by celestial observations.
HAYE, HAIE, a ridge of rocks, a chain of rocks under water, or near
the surface of the water.
HEAUME, the tiller, or bar of the helm in small vessels.
HELER _un vaisseau_, to hail or accost a ship at a distance.
HERPE _de plat-bord_, the harping on each side of the bow.
HERPES _de poulaine_, rails of the head, stretching from beneath the
cat-head towards the cut-water. See _Lisses de_ POULAINE.
HERPES _marines_, a general name for whatever is thrown upon the
sea-coasts of value, as coral, amber, &c.
HERSE _de poulie_. See ESTROPE.
HERSES _d’affut_. See ERSES.
HERSILIERES, certain knees placed horizontally on the quarters or bows
of a ship, close to the gunnel.
HEU, a large hoy, or sailing lighter.
HEUSE, the spear of a pump, together with its box.
HILOIRES. See ILLOIRES.
HISSE, HISSE, hoist away! hoist heartily!
HISSER, ISSER, to hoist or pull up any thing by a tackle.
HISSER _en douceur_, to hoist handsomely, or gradually.
HIVERNER, to winter, or lie up in a port during the winter season.
HOIRIN. See ORIN.
HOLA, hoa the ship a hoy! an acclamation to hail or accost a ship at a
distance.
HOLA-HO, a cry which answers to yoe-hoe.
HOMME, a name frequently given as a token of distinction to an able or
expert seaman.
HONNEUR, _fair honneur_, to give a good birth to, to keep aloof, or at
a distance from; as a rock, or shoal, or some other ship,
HOPITAL, an hospital-ship, that attends on a fleet to receive the
sick.
HORIZON, the horizon.
HORIZON _fin_, a clear horizon.
HORIZON _gras, ou embrumé_, a cloudy horizon.
HORLOGE, an half-hour glass for regulating the watch.
HOUACHE, or SILLAGE, the wake or track of a ship in the sea, made by
her passage through it.
HOUCRE. See HOURQUE.
HOULES, _ou lames de mer_, the waves of a swelling or breaking sea.
HOULEUX, a rolling and turbulent sea.
HOUPÉE, the rise or swell of a wave.
_Prendre la_ HOUPÉE, to watch the swell, as in mounting from a boat
into a ship, when the boat rises.
HOURAGAN. See OURAGAN.
HOURSE, or OURCE, the vangs of a mizen-gaff or yard.
HOURDI. See _Lisse de_ HOURDI.
HOURQUE, a Dutch howker, a particular sort of hoy.
HOUVARI, a strong land-wind in the West-Indies, accompanied with rain,
thunder, and lightning.
HUCHE, a ship with a high poop, stern, or round-house, on the
quarter-deck, as a Dutch flight.
HUNE, the top.
HUNES _de perroquet_, the top-mast cross-trees.
HUNIER, a top-sail.
_Le grand_ HUNIER, the main-top-sail.
_Le petit_ HUNIER, the fore-top-sail.
_Avoir les_ HUNIERS _à mi-mât_, to have the top-sails half-mast up.
_Avoir les_ HUNIERS _dehors_, to have the top-sails set.
_Mettre le vent sur les_ HUNIERS, to brace the top-sails to the wind,
or to lay them a-back on the mast.
_Amener les_ HUNIERS _sur le ton_, to lower the top sails down upon
the cap.