à sec_, to try, or scud under bare poles.
MATS _venus à bas_, masts which are carried away.
MATS _de hune hauts_, to have the top-mast an end, or swayed up.
MATAFIONS, knittles, or small robands.
MATÉ _en caravelle_, fitted with pole top-masts.
MATÉ _en chandelier_, masted upright. Expressed of a ship whose masts
are stayed so as neither to hang forward or aft.
MATÉ _en frégate_, the bent or inclination of the masts, when they
rake forward, or stoop towards the head.
MATÉ _en fourche_, or _à corne_, masted for a boom and gaff; as a
schooner or sloop.
MATÉ _en galere_, to be masted as a galley, with only two masts
without any top-mast.
MATÉ _en semaque_, masted for a sprit which crosses the sail
diagonally.
MATELOT, a sailor, or mariner; a man before the mast.
MATELOTAGE, the hire, wages, or pay of seamen.
_Il est un bon_ MATELOT, he is an able seaman.
_Vaisseau_ MATELOT, a good company-keeper, or a ship that sails well,
and keeps her station in a fleet; also the ships, in a fleet of men
of war, which are appointed seconds to the admirals or commanding
officers.
MATELOTS-_gardiens_, the ordinary-men of a royal dock-yard, and its
harbour or dock, including also the carpenters and calkers appointed
to watch in the ships of war.
MATER, to fix or place the masts of a ship.
MATEREAU, a small mast, or end of a mast.
MATEUR, a mast-maker. See MAÎTRE-_mateur_.
MATURE, the art of masting ships; also a general name for the masts
themselves.
_La_ MATURE, the mast-shed, or the place where the masts are made.
MAY, a sort of trough bored full of holes, wherein to drain cordage,
when it is newly tarred.
MAUGERES, or MAUGES, the scupper-holes.
MECHE, the match by which a cannon is fired.
MECHE _de cabestan_, the middle-piece, or body of the capstern.
MECHE _de mât_, the main or middle-piece of a lower-mast, which is
composed of several pieces, as usual in many ships of war.
MECHE _du gouvernail_, the principal piece of a rudder.
MECHE _d’une corde_, the middle strand of a four stranded rope.
MEMBRES _de vaisseau_, the frames of a ship, or the pieces of which
the ribs are composed, as floor-timbers, top-timbers, and futtocks.
MER, the sea; whence,
_Pleine_-MER, full sea.
_Haute_-MER, high water. See MARÉE.
MER _sans fond_, a part of the sea where there is no anchoring-ground.
_La_ MER _à perdu_, the sea is fallen, it is falling-water.
_La_ MER _brise_, the sea breaks, or foams, by striking a rock or
shore.
_La_ MER _brûle_, the sea burns, as in a dark and tempestuous night.
_La_ MER _est courte_, the sea runs short, broken, or interrupted.
_La_ MER _est longue_, the sea runs long and steddy, or without
breaking.
_La_ MER _étale_, the sea is smooth, as in a calm.
_La_ MER _mugit_, the sea roars, as being turbulent.
_La_ MER _rapporte_, the spring-tides have begun, or commenced.
_La_ MER _roule_, the sea rolls.
_La_ MER _se creuse_, the sea rises and runs cross.
_La_ MER _va chercher le vent_, the wind rises against the sea.
_Il y à de la_ MER, the sea runs high. When the violence of the waves
are abated, they say, in a contrary sense, _Il n’y à plus de_ MER.
_Jetter à la_ MER, to throw overboard.
_Mettre à la_ MER, or _faire voiles_, to put to sea, or set sail.
_Tenir la_ MER, to keep the sea, or hold out in the offing.
_Tirer à la_ MER. See BOUTER _au large_.
_Recevoir un coup de_ MER, to ship a sea.
MERLIN, marline, or merline.
MERLINER _une voile_, to marle a sail to the foot-rope.
_Arbre de_ MESTRE, the main-mast of a row-galley.
METTRE _à bord_, to bring, or carry aboard.
METTRE _à la voile_, to get under sail, to set sail.
METTRE _un navire en rade_, to carry a ship into any road.
METTRE _à terre_, to carry, or put ashore, to disembark.
METTRE _la grande voile à l’échelle_, to get the main-tack down with a
passaree.
METTRE _les basses voiles sur les cargues_, to haul up the courses in
the brails.
METTRE _les voiles dedans_, METTRE _à sec, ou_ METTRE _à mâts & à
cordes_, to take in, furl, or hand all the sails.
METTRE _le linguet_, to paul the capstern, or put in the paul.
METTRE _un matelot à terre_, to set ashore one of the crew, to turn
adrift or maroon a sailor.
METTRE _un ancre en place_, to stow an anchor on the bow.
MEURTRIERES, _ou_ JALOUSIES, the loop-holes in a ship’s sides or
bulk-heads, through which they can fire musquetry on the enemy.
MI-_mat_. See HUNIER.
MINOT, _boute-dehors_, _defense_, the davit of a ship: also a
fire-boom.
MINUTE, a nautical, or astronomical mile.
MIRE _& coins de_ MIRE, the coins, or aiming wedges of a cannon.
_Prendre sa_ MIRE, to take aim with a cannon, to level, or point a
cannon, or other fire-arm, to its object.
MIRER, to loom, or appear indistinctly, as the land under a cloud on
the sea-coast.
MIROIR. See ECUSSON.
MISAINE, the fore-mast.
MISAINE, or _voile de_ MISAINE, the fore-sail.
MITRAILLES, langrage shot, or small pieces of iron, or old nails, with
which cannon are sometimes charged in a sea-fight.
MODELE. See GABARIT.
MOIS _de gages_, the monthly pay, or wages of a sailor.
MOLE _de port_, a pier, or mole-head, raised across the mouth of a
harbour, to break off the force of the sea.
MOLER _en pouppe, ou poger_, to bear away and bring the wind aft, in
the dialect of Provence and Italy.
MOLLIR, _une corde_, to slacken, douse, or ease off a taught rope.
MONSON, or MOUSON, a monsoon, or trade-wind of India.
MONTANS _de poulaine_, the timbers of the head, or upright rails,
which are usually ornamented with sculpture.
MONTANS _de voute_, the stern-timbers.
_Le_ MONTANT _de l’eau_, or _le flot_, flowing water, the flood tide.
MONTÉ, mounted, or equipped with a certain number of guns, or men; as,
_Vaisseau_ MONTÉ _de 50 ou 60 canons_, a ship mounting 50 or 60 guns.
_Vaisseau_ MONTÉ _de trois cent hommes_, a ship manned with three
hundred hands, or whose complement consists of three hundred.
MONTER _le gouvernail_, to hang the rudder.
MONTER _au vent_, to spring the luff, or haul the wind.
MONTURE, the arming a ship for war, or mounting her with cannon, and
other fire-arms, and manning her.
MOQUE, a heart, or dead-eye of a stay.
MOQUE _de civadiere_, a sprit-sail-sheet block.
MOQUE _de trélingage_, the dead-eye of a crow-foot.
MORDRE, to bite, or hold fast; understood of the claw or flook of an
anchor which is sunk in the ground.
MORNE, a name given in America to a cape or promontory.
MORTAISE, a hole or mortise, cut to receive the end of a piece of
timber, called the tenant or tenon.
MORTAISE _de gouvernail_, the hole in the rudder-head which contains
the tiller.
MORTAISE _de poulie_, the channel, or vacant space in a block formed
to contain the sheave.
MORTAISE _du mât de hune_, the fid-hole of a top-mast.
MORTE-_d’eau_, or MORTE-_eau_, nip tides, or neap-tides; also dead low
water.
MORTIER, a mortar, employed to throw bombs or carcases from a ketch.
MOUFFLE _de poulie_, the shell of a block. See ARCASSE.
MOUILLAGE, anchoring-ground.
_Mauvais_ MOUILLAGE, foul ground, bad anchor-ground, or foul bottom.
MOUILLE, let go the anchor! the order to let the anchor fall from the
cat-head to the bottom.
_Bien_-MOUILLÉ, well moored, or moored in a good birth and
anchor-ground.
_Vaisseau_ MOUILLÉ _à un ancre de flot, & un ancre de jussant_, a ship
moored with one anchor to the flood, and another to the ebb.
_Vaisseau_ MOUILLÉ _entre vent & marée_, a ship moored between wind
and tide.
MOUILLER, or MOUILLER _l’ancre_, to let go the anchor, to come to an
anchor, or simply, to anchor.
MOUILLER _à la voile_, to let go the anchor whilst the sails are yet
abroad.
MOUILLER _en croupiére_, to moor with a spring upon the cable, in
order to cannonade a fort, &c.
MOUILLER _en patte d’oie_, to moor with three anchors a-head, equally
distant from each other, and appearing like the foot of a goose.
MOUILLER _l’ancre de touei_, to moor with the boat, or to carry out an
anchor.
MOUILLER _les voiles_, to wet the sails; a practice usual in light
winds.
MOUILLER _par la quille_, an ironical expression to signify that a
ship is fast a-ground: Our seamen then say, every nail in her bottom
is an anchor.
MOULINET, a small windlass, as that of a long-boat, or lanch.
MOULINET _à bittord_, a spun-yarn-winch.
MOURGON, a diver, in the dialect of Provence. See PLONGEUR.
MOUSSE, _garçon be bord_, a ship-boy; one of the prentices, or
officers servants.
MOUTONNER, to foam; expressed of the waves in a tempest or turbulent
sea.
MOYEN-_parallel_, the middle latitude in navigation, or the parallel
that holds the middle place between the latitude departed from, and
the latitude arrived in.
MULET, a sort of Portuguese vessel with three masts, and lateen sails.
MUNITIONAIRE, an agent-victualler, or a contractor for sea provisions.
_Commis du_ MUNITIONAIRE. See COMMIS.
N.
NACELLE, a skiff, or small boat, without masts or sails, used to pass
a river.
NAGE, the row-lock of a boat. See also AUTARELLE.
NAGE _à bord_, come aboard with the boat! the order given to the
rowers in the longboat, to bring her aboard, or along-side.
NAGE _à faire abattre_, pull to leeward! the order to the rowers in a
boat, to tow the ship’s head to leeward.
NAGE _au vent_, pull to windward, or tow the ship to windward!
NAGE _de force_, pull chearly in the boat! hooroa in the boat!
NAGE _qui est paré_, pull with the oars that are shipped.
NAGE _sec_, row dry! the order to row without wetting the passengers.
NAGE _stribord, & scie bas-bord_, pull the starboard-oars, and hold
water with the larboard oars! the order given to turn the boat with
her head to the left.
NAGER, RAMER, or VOGUER, to row, or pull with the oars, in a boat or
small vessel.
NAGER _à sec_, to touch the shore with the oars in rowing.
NAGER _tant d’avirons par bande_, to row so many oars on a side.
NAGER _de bout_, to row standing, or with the face towards the boat’s
head.
NAGER _en arriere_, to back a-stern with the oars.
NAGER _la chaloupe à bord_, to row the long-boat aboard.
NATES, mats used to line the sail-room, bread-room, or the hold when a
ship is laden with corn, to preserve the contents.
NAVETTE, a small Indian vessel.
NAUFRAGE, shipwreck.
NAUFRAGÉ, shipwrecked.
NAVIGABLE, navigable, capable of navigation.
NAVIGATEUR, a mariner, or seaman.
NAVIGATION, the theory and practice of navigation.
NAVIGATION _impropre_, coasting, or sailing along shore.
NAVIGATION _propre_, the art of sailing by the laws of trigonometry.
See PILOTAGE.
NAVIGER, to sail, or direct a ship’s course at sea.
NAVIGER _par terre_, or _dans le terre_, to be ashore by the
dead-reckoning; to be a-head of the ship by estimation.
NAVIGER _par un grand cercle_, to sail upon the arch of a great
circle.
NAVIRE, a ship. See also VAISSEAU.
_Beau_ NAVIRE _en rade_, a good roader.
NEUVE, a sort of small flight, used by the Dutch in the
herring-fishery, and resembling a buss. See BUCHE.
NEZ, the nose, beak, or head of a ship.
NOCHER, a name formerly given to a pilot.
NOCTURLABE, a nocturnal.
NOIALE. See TOILE.
NOIÉ, an epithet which answers to clouded, or indistinct; being
expressed of an horizon, when it cannot be discovered by an
observer, when taking an altitude.
NOIRCIR, to blacken, or daub with a mixture of tar and lamp-black; as
the wales and black-strakes of a ship, the yards, cutwater, &c.
NOLIS, or NOLISSEMENT, a name given in Provence and the Levant to the
freight or cargo of a ship.
NON-_vue_, no sight of, out of sight; a phrase which implies the fog
or haze of the weather, that prevents a ship from discovering
contiguous objects, as the shore, rocks, &c.
NORD, the north, or north point.
NORD-EST, the north-east.
NORD-EST _quart à l’est_, north-east by east.
NORD-ESTER, to vary towards the east; expressed of the east-variation
of the compass.
NORD-OUESTER, to decline towards the west; spoken also of the
magnetical needle.
NOYALE. See NOIALE.
NOYÉ. See NOIÉ.
NUAISON, a trade-wind, or the period of a monsoon.
O.
OCCIDENT, or OUEST, the west.
OCEAN, a name generally given in France, to the Western, or Atlantic
Ocean.
OCTANT, the octant, or quadrant invented by Hadley.
OEIL, YEUX, _ou_ TROUS, the holes in the clews of a sprit-sail to let
out the water which falls into its cavity when the ship pitches.
OEIL de _bœuf_. See YEUX.
OEIL _de bouc_, a water-gall, or weather-gall.
OEIL _de pie_, or YEUX _de pie_, the eye-let holes wrought in the reef
of a sail, through which the points are reeved.
OEIL _de roue_, the hole in the truck, or wheel of a gun-carriage,
through which the axle passes.
OEILLET, an eye-splice on the end of any rope.
OEILLET _d’étai_, the eye of a stay which goes over the mast-head.
OEILLETS _de la tournevire_, the eyes in the two ends of a voyal,
which are lashed together with a laniard when the voyal is brought
to the capstern.
OEILS, the eyes, or hauses of a ship. See ECUBIERS.
OEUVRE-_mortes_, the dead-work of a ship, or all that part which is
above water, comprehending the fore-castle, quarter deck, and poop.
OEUVRE _vives_, the quick-work, or all that part of a ship which is
under water.
OEUVRES _de marée_, the graving, calking, or repairing a ship’s
bottom, when, having been laid on the ground, the tide has ebbed
from her, so as to leave the bottom dry.
OFFICIERS _bleu_. See BLEU.
OFFICIERS-_généraux_, the general officers in the French navy, as the
admirals, vice-admirals, rear admirals, and commodores.
OFFICIERS _de port_, the officers of a dock-yard, appointed to see
that the shipping are properly moored, masted, rigged, repaired,
calked, and otherwise equipped with whatever is necessary, according
to their destination.
OFFICIERS _de santé_, officers who superintend the affairs of the
quarantine in a port.
OFFICIERS-_majors_, the superior, or commissioned officers in a ship
of war, as the captain, lieutenants, and ensign.
OFFICIERS-_mariniers_, the mechanical or warrant-officers in a ship of
war, of which the principal are, the master, boatswain, gunner,
carpenter, and sail-maker; as distinguished from the military
officers, called _Officiers-majors_. See the preceding article.
O! _du navire, hola_! hoa the ship, a hoay! the manner of hailing or
calling to a ship whose name is not known.
O! _du Soleil Royal hola_! hoa, the Royal Sun ahoay!
O! _d’en haut_, yoa-hoa, aloft there! mast-head there! &c. the cry
from the deck to those who are aloft, to attend to some order.
O! _hisse, O! hale, O! saille, O! ride_, the method of singing out, as
a signal to hoist, haul, or rouse together, on a tackle or rope.
OINT, stuff, tallow, or such like material, used to pay the masts,
tyes of the top-sail-yards, &c.
OLOFÉE, the act of spring the luff, or of hauling close upon a wind.
ORAGE. See TEMPETE.
ORDRE _de bataille_, the line or order of battle in a naval
engagement.
ORDRE _de marche_, the order of sailing.
ORDRE _de retraite_, the order of retreat.
ORDRES _des vaisseaux_, the classes into which each rate of ships is
subdivided, in the French navy. See RANG.
OREILLE _de lievre_, a three-sided, or triangular sail; as the
stay-sails.
OREILLES _de l’ancre_, the broad parts of the fluke of an anchor.
ORGANEAU, the ring of an anchor. See ARGANEAU.
ORGUES, an organ, or machine, sometimes used in a sea-fight by
privateers: it contains several barrels of musketoons, or
small-arms, fixed upon one stock, so as to be all fired together.
ORIENTER _les voiles_, to trim the sails, or place them in the most
advantageous manner, to receive the wind, and accelerate the ship’s
course.
ORIN, the buoy-rope of an anchor.
ORSE, the larboard-side, in the dialect of Provence. Also the order to
luff.
ORSER, to row against the wind, or row head-to-wind. This is likewise
the language of the gallies.
ORTODROMIE, a course which lies upon a meridian or parallel.
OSSEC, the water-way, or well-room of a boat.
OSSIERES. See HAUSSIERES.
OUAGE, the track or wake of a ship. See HOUAICHE.
_Tirer en_ OUAICHE, to take a ship in tow a-stern when she is
disabled.
_Trainer un pavillon ennemi en_ OUAICHE, to drag the colours or ensign
of an enemy after the ship, so as to sweep the water therewith, as a
sign of victory.
OVERLANDRES, small vessels navigated on the Rhine and Meuse.
OUEST, or OCCIDENT, the west point of the compass or horizon.
OUEST-_nord-ouest, &c._ See ROSE _de vents_.
OURAGAN, an hurricane.
OUVERT, _etre ouvert_, to have any object open in sailing past it; or
to be opposite to any place, as a road, the entrance of a harbour,
or river, &c.
OUVERTURE, an opening, or valley between two hills, beheld from the
sea, and serving frequently as a land-mark.
OUVRIERS, the artificers, &c. in a dock-yard; or riggers of a ship.
OUVRIR, to open, or discover two objects separately at sea, when
sailing at some distance from them.
P.
PACFI, _ou_ PAFI, _le grand_ PACFI, the main-course, or main-sail.
_Le petit_ PACFI, _ou_ PACFI _de bourcet_, the fore-course or
fore-sail.
_Etre aux deux_ PACFIS, to be under the courses.
PACIFIER, to become calm; also to fall, or grow smooth, when spoken of
the sea.
PAGAIE, the paddle of a canoe.
PAGE _de la chambre du capitaine_, the cabin-boy.
PAGES. See MOUSSES _& garçons_.
PAILLES _de bittes_, long iron bolts thrust into holes in the bits, to
keep the cable from starting off.
PAILLOT, the steward-room in a row-galley.
PAIS _somme_, a shoal or shallow.
PALAMANTE, a general name given to the oars of a row-galley; which are
forty feet and six inches in length.
PALAN, a tackle of any kind. See ITAQUE and GARANT.
PALAN _à caliorne_, a three-fold tackle. See CALIORNE.
PALAN _à candelette_. See CANDELETTE.
PALAN _d’amure_, a tack-tackle.
PALAN _d’etai_, a stay-tackle.
PALAN _de misaine_, the fore-tackle.
_Grand_ PALAN, the main tackle.
PALANQUE, the order to hoist, bowce, or set taught upon a tackle.
PALANQUER, to hoist, or bowce upon a tackle.
PALANQUIN, a jigger-tackle, tail-tackle, or burton.
PALANQUINS _de ris_, the reef-tackles.
PALANQUINS _simples de racage_, the nave-lines.
PALANS _de bout_, the sprit-sail haliards.
PALANS _de canon_. See DROSSE _de canon_, & PALAN _de retraite_.
PALANS _de retraite_, the relieving tackle, &c. of the ordnance.
PALARDEAUX, plugs made to stop holes in any part of a ship; as
hause-plugs, shot-plugs, &c.
PALE, or PALME, the blade or wash of an oar.
PALÉAGE, the act of discharging any thing with shovels, baskets, &c.
as corn, salt, or such like material; for which employment the
ship’s crew can demand no additional pay. See also MANEAGE.
_En_ PANNE, lying-by, or lying-to with some of the sails aback.
_Mettre en_ PANNE, to lay a ship to, or turn the head to windward, in
order to lie by with some of the sails laid to the mast.
PANNEAU, a scuttle, or cover of any hatchway in the deck.
PANNEAU _à boîte_, the cover of a scuttle, with a border round its
edge.
PANNEAU _à vassole_, a great hatch, without a border.
_Le grand_ PANNEAU, the main hatch.
PANTAQUIERES, or PANTOCHERES, the cat-harpings, and crane lines of the
shrouds.
_En_ PANTENNE, fluttering or shivering in great disorder; expressed of
the sails, when out of trim, in a storm.
_Amener les voiles en_ PANTENNE, to haul down the sails with the
utmost expedition; as in a squall of wind.
PANTOIRES, pendants on the mast-heads or yard-arms, wherein to hook
preventer-shrouds, or yard-tackles.
PAPIERS _& enseignemens_, the papers of a ship, comprehending the
bills of lading, manifest, coquets, &c.
PAQUE-BOT, or PAQUET-BOT, a packet-boat, or packet-vessel; as those
which pass between Dover and Calais, &c.
_Faire la_ PARADE, to dress a ship, or to adorn her with a number of
flags, pendants, and other colours, which are displayed from
different parts of the masts, yards, and rigging.
PARADIS, or BASSIN, the basin of a dock, or an inner harbour.
PARAGE, a space of the sea appointed to cruise, or rendezvous in; also
a part of the sea near any coast.
_Vaisseau mouillé en_ PARAGE, a ship anchored in an open road, or in
the offing.
PARC, an inclosure for containing the magazines and store-houses in a
royal dock-yard.
PARC _dans un vaisseau_, a cot or pen, wherein cattle are inclosed in
a ship.
PARCLOSSES, limber-boards.
PARCOURIR _les coutures_, to survey or examine the seams of a ship’s
sides or decks, and caulk where it is found necessary.
PARÉ, ready, clear, or prepared for any thing.
PARE _à virer_, see all clear to go about! the order to prepare for
tacking.
PAREAU, or PARRE, a sort of large bark in the Indies, whose head and
stern are exactly alike, so that the rudder may be hung at either
end.
PARER _un cap_, to double a cape. See DOUBLER.
PARER _un ancre_, to prepare the anchor for letting it go.
_Se_ PARER, to clear for action, to prepare for battle.
PARFUMER _un vaisseau_, to smoke a ship, and sluice her with vinegar
between decks, in order to purify her, and expel the putrified air.
PARQUET, a shot-locker on the deck; also a place where shot are kept
on a gun-wharf. See EPITIÉ.
PARTAGER _le vent_, to share the wind with some other ship, or hold
way with her, without gaining or losing ground, or without
weathering, or falling to leeward.
PARTANCE, the time of departing, or sailing from a place; also a place
from whence a ship departs.
_Coup de_ PARTANCE, a signal-gun for sailing.
_Banniere de_ PARTANCE, the signal displayed for sailing.
PAS, a strait or narrow channel, as
PAS _de Calais_, the Streights of Dover.
PASSAGERS, the passengers of a ship.
PASSE, a canal, channel, or small streight.
PASSE-_port_, a sea-pass or passport. See CONGÉ.
PASSER, to perish, or be lost at sea; as by over-setting, or
foundering.
PASSER _au vent d’un vaisseau_, to pass to windward, or gain the wind
of another ship.
PASSER _sous le beaupré_, to pass under the bowsprit. This phrase,
which is usual amongst English as well as French seamen, implies to
go a-head of, or before a ship, and cross her course.
PASSE-_vogue_, the effort of rowing briskly, or very hard.
PASSE-_volant_, a false muster on the ship’s books; also a wooden gun,
which may terrify a ship at a distance. See FAUSSES-LANCES.
PATACHE, an armed tender, or vessel which attends a ship of war or
fleet; also a packet-boat.
PATACHE _d’avis_, an advice-boat. See FRÉGATE _d’avis_.
PATARAS, a preventer-shroud; also a spare-shroud, to be hooked on
occasionally.
PATARASSE, a calking iron.
PATRON, the master or commander of a merchant-ship, or boat, in the
dialect of Provence.
PATRON _de chaloupe_, the cockswain, or coxen, of a long-boat.
PATTE _d’oie_. See MOUILLER _en patte d’oie_.
PATTES _d’ancre_, the flukes of an anchor.
PATTES _d’anspects_, the claws of a gunner’s handspike.
PATTES _de bouline_, the bowline bridles.
PATTES _de voiles_, the tabling of the sails at their edges or
bolt-ropes.
PAVESADE, a quarter-cloth, or waist-cloth. See BASTINGAGE.
PAVILLON, the flag of a ship. Also a general name for colours.
PAVILLON _de beaupré_, the jack.
PAVILLON _de chaloupe_, the flag carried in a barge or long-boat, when
a superior officer is aboard.
PAVILLON _de combat_, the signal for engagement.
PAVILLON _de conseil_, the signal for a general council.
PAVILLON _de pouppe_, or _enseigne de pouppe_, a ship’s ensign.
PAVILLON _en Berne_. See BERNE.
_Baton de_ PAVILLON, the ensign staff, flag-staff, or jack-staff.
_Vaisseau_ PAVILLON, or simply, PAVILLON, the flag-ship.
_Amener le_ PAVILLON, to strike the flag or colours.
_Etre sous un tel_ PAVILLON, to be under such a flag, or commanding
officer.
_Faire_ PAVILLON _blanc_, to display a flag of truce.
PAUMET, a sail-maker’s palm.
PAVOIS, or rather PAVESADE. See PAVESADE and BASTINGAGE.
PAVOISER, to spread the waist-cloths.
PAUSES, a sort of long and wide boats used to embark merchandise at
Archangel, in Moscovy.
PECHER _un ancre_, to hook, and heave up from the bottom, another
anchor, with that of the ship, when several anchors lie near to each
other, as in a common road.
PEDAGNE, or PEDAGNON, the stretchers of a row-galley. See also
BANQUETTES.
PELLES, corn shovels, or ballast-shovels, used in trimming a ship’s
hold.
PENDANT, or FLAMME. See FLAMME.
PENDEUR, or PENDOUR, the pendant of any tackle, runner, &c.
PENDOUR _de caliorne_, the winding tackle-pendant.
PENDOURS _de balancines_, the spans of the lifts.
PENDOURS _de bras_, the brace-pendants at the yard-arms.
PENES, pitch-mops. See BATON _à vadel_.