RAVALEMENT, a platform on the poop of some ships, where the marines
stand to discharge their small-arms.
REALE, the royal-galley, a name given to the principal galley of a
kingdom. See GALERE _réale_.
REBANDER, a phrase amongst the common sailors, signifying to carry
over to the other side of the ship.
REBANDER _à l’autre bord_, to stand upon the other tack, to steer a
different course.
REBORDER, to fall aboard or along-side of a ship a second time.
RECHANGE, a general name for the stores of a ship; or the spare
rigging, sails, &c. which are in reserve to supply the place of what
may be lost or disabled.
RECLAMPER, to fish a mast or yard when it happens to be sprung.
RECONNOITRE _un vaisseau_, to approach a ship, in order to discover
her strength, and of what nation she is.
RECONNOITRE _une terre_, to survey or observe the situation of a coast
attentively.
RECOURIR _les coutures_, to run over the seams of a ship in calking;
to calk them lightly and expeditiously.
RECOURIR _sur une manœuvre_, to under-run a rope or cable.
_Faire_ RECOURIR _l’ecoute_, _la bouline_, _le couet de revers_, to
haul in the slack of the lee-tack or bowline, or of the
weather-sheet.
RECOUVRE! rouse-in, or haul aboard!
RECOUVRER, to rouse-in, or haul any rope into the ship, when it hangs
slack in the water, or otherwise.
RECOUX. See REPRISE.
RECUL _du canon_, the recoil of a cannon.
REFAIT, squared, or prepared for use; expressed of a piece of timber
hewn to its proper form and size.
REFLUX _de la mer_, the ebb-tide. See FLUX.
REFOULER, to stem the tide, or to sail against it.
_La mer_ REFOULE, the tide ebbs; the water falls.
REFOULOIR, the rammer of a great gun, called also FOULOIR.
REFOULOIR _de cordes_, a rope rammer.
_Se_ REFRANCHIR, to be freed by the pumps, or to have the quantity of
water in a ship’s hold diminished by pumping.
REFREIN, the repetition of the dashing and breaking against rocks, &c.
expressed of the waves upon a sea-shore.
REFUSER, to fall off again, when in stays; expressed of a ship that
will not go about, or stay; as,
_Le vaisseau a_ REFUSÉ, the ship will not come to the wind, or will
not stay.
REGATES, a course or race of boats in the great canal of Venice.
RELACHER, to bear away for, or put into a harbour, under the lee.
RELACHE, the harbour where a ship has taken refuge or shelter, as from
a contrary wind.
RELAIS. See LAISSES.
RELEVEMENT, the sheer of a ship’s deck, or the rising of the deck
afore and abaft.
RELEVER, to put a ship afloat, after she had lain a-ground for some
time; also to right a ship after she had lain upon a careen.
RELEVER _l’ancre_, to weigh the anchor again, and change its
situation.
RELEVER _le quart_, or _le timonnier_, to relieve the steersman or the
watch.
RELEVER _les branles_, to lash up the hammocks, in order to make a
clear passage between-decks.
RELEVER _un côte_, to draw the plan or chart of a coast.
RELEVER _un vaisseau_, to steer by the compass, or shape the course by
the compass.
REMÉDIER _à des voies d’eau_, to stop or stanch the leaks.
REMOLE, a dangerous whirlpool.
REMONTER, to sail up a river, as from the sea.
REMORQUER, to tow a ship by a boat, or other vessel with oars.
REMOULAT, a person who has charge of the oars in a row-galley.
REMOUX, the eddy, or dead water, left behind a ship’s stern when she
is under sail.
RENARD, a sort of handspike, or lever, with an iron claw, used to
remove large pieces of timber in a dock-yard, &c.
RENARD is also a traverse-board.
RENCONTRE! shift the helm, or shift over the helm! the order to the
steersman, to meet the ship, right the helm, or put it towards the
side opposite to where it was before, in order to check the ship’s
sheer.
RENDEZ-VOUS, the rendezvous, or place of destination of a fleet of
ships.
RENDRE _le bord_, to anchor, or come to an anchor in some road or
harbour.
RENTRÉE. See RETRECISSEMENT.
RENVERSEMENT, the shifting a cargo from one ship to another.
_Charger par_ RENVERSEMENT, to change or remove the cargo out of one
ship into some other.
REPOUSSOIR, a driving-bolt, used by ship-wrights to knock out another
from its station.
REPRENDRE _une manœuvre_, to sheep-shank, or shorten a rope.
REPRISE, a retaken ship.
RÉSINE, resin, used in paying a ship’s bottom or sides.
RESSAC, the shock or breaking of a wave upon the shore, and its
retreat into the sea.
RESSIF, or RECIF, a reef, or ridge of rocks under water.
RESTAUR, the restoration, or loss made good by an insurer.
RESTER, to bear upon any point of the compass; as, _un vaisseau nous_
RESTE _au sud_, a ship bears south of us, &c.
RETENUE, fastened, or hardened home in its place; expressed of a piece
of timber in ship-building; as,
_Piece de bois qui a sa_ RETENUE, a piece of wood which is firmly
wedged into its place, as by rabbiting, tenanting, &c.
_Corde de_ RETENUE, a tackle-fall. See also CORD _de retenue &_
ATTRAPE.
RETORSOIR, a spun-yarn winch. See MOULINET.
RETOUR _de marée_, the turn of the tide, or the beginning of the ebb.
RETRAITE _de pirates_, a nest of pirates, a harbour of free-booters.
RETRAITES _de hune_, or _cargues de hune_, the clue-lines, bunt-lines,
and reef-tackles of the top-sails.
RETRANCHEMENT, a temporary or occasional apartment formed in a ship,
besides her ordinary cabins.
RÉTRECISSEMENTS _des gabaris_, the tumbling-home of the top-timbers,
where a ship grows narrower above her breadth. See REVERS.
REVENTER, to fill the sails again; to brace about, and fill.
REVERS, a general name for those pieces of timber whose convexity lies
inward in a ship’s bottom or sides; as,
_Allonges de_ REVERS, the top timbers.
_Genoux de_ REVERS, the lower futtocks in the fore and after parts of
the ship.
_Manœuvres de_ REVERS, the ropes which are out of use while they lie
on the lee-side, as the lee-bowline, lee-tacks, &c.
REVIREMENT, the act of going about, by tacking or veering.
REVIREMENT _par la tête, ou par la queue_, to tack a fleet or squadron
of ships of war by the van or rear, so that the foremost ships or
the aftmost ships go about first, to preserve the order of the line.
REVIRER, to put about; to change the course of a ship.
REVIRER _dans l’eaux d’un navire_, to tack in a ship’s wake, and stand
on the same course, a-stern of her.
REVOLIN, a sudden gust of wind, which blows off the shore, as by
rebound from the adjacent hills.
RIBORD, the second plank, or streak of planks, on a ship’s bottom,
counting from the keel. See GABORD.
RIBORDAGE, the damage due from one ship to another which has sustained
any hurt from the misconduct or neglect of the former, as
established by merchants.
RIDE, a laniard.
RIDER, to haul taught, or pull strait.
RIDER _la voile_. See RIS.
RIDES _de haubans_, the laniards of the shrouds.
RIDES _d’etai_, the laniards of the stays.
_Longue_ RIME, or _donne longue_ RIME! row a long stroke! the order to
the rowers to pull with a long sweep.
_Bon_ RIME! the order to the strokesman of the boat, or he who rows
the after oar, to give a good stroke, for the rest to follow.
RINGEOT, or BRION, the fore-foot. See BRION.
RIS, the reef of a sail.
_Prendre le_ RIS, to reef a sail, or take in a reef.
RISSONS, grapplings, with four claws, used as anchors in a galley.
RIVAGE, the banks of a river, or the sea-shore, upon which the tide
ebbs and flows between high and low-water mark.
RIVER _un clou_, to rivet a nail.
ROC _d’issas_, or BLOC _d’assas_. See SEP _de drisse_.
ROCHER, ROC, or ROCHE, a rock, or key; a ridge, or reef of rocks in
the sea, or on the coast.
ROCHES _cachées_, lurking rocks, or rocks under water.
RODE _de pouppe, &_ RODE _de proue_, the stern-post, or stem of a
galley.
ROINETTE, a marking-iron, to mark timber, or the casks which are
shipped for a voyage.
RONDEUR, the curve, sweep, or compass of a piece of timber used in
ship-building.
RONGÉ, worm-eaten; expressed of a ship’s bottom, when it is much
injured by the worms in a southern voyage.
ROSE _de vents_, or ROSE _de compas_, the card or face of a
sea-compass.
ROSTER, to woold a mast, yard, or boom.
ROSTURES, the wooldings of a mast, &c.
ROUANE _de pompe_, a great pump-borer; whence,
ROUANER _une pompe_, to enlarge the bore or channel of a ship’s pump.
ROUCHE _d’un vaisseau_, the hull of a ship, without masts or rigging.
ROUER _une manœuvre_, to coil a rope.
ROUER _à tour_, to coil a rope with the sun, i. e. according to the
course of the sun in north-latitude.
ROUER _à contre_, to coil a rope against the sun.
ROUES _d’affut de canon_, the trucks of a gun-carriage.
ROUET _de poulie_, the sheave of a block.
ROUET _de poulie de chaloupe_, the sheave of a long-boat’s davit; also
the sheave on the top of her stern-post, or stem for weighing an
anchor.
ROULEAU, a roller, or cylindrical piece of wood placed under any
weighty body, in order to move it with greater facility by means of
handspikes, &c.
ROULER, to roll tumultuously; expressed of the waves of a swelling
sea.
ROULIS _d’un vaisseau_, the rolling motion of a ship. See TANGAGE.
ROUTE, the course, or way of a ship; also the place of her
destination.
ROUTE _fausse_, or _fausse-route_, the errors of a course, or the
deviations from the right course, occasioned by the lee-way, drift,
currents, chasing, &c.
_A la_ ROUTE! steer the course! the order to the helmsman to keep the
ship steddy in her course.
_Porter à_ ROUTE, or _faire droit_ ROUTE, to make a strait course; to
sail onward, without touching at any port in the passage.
ROUTIER, a book, or collection of charts, bearings, distances,
soundings, and perspective views of the coasts of any country.
RUBORD, or RIBORD. See RIBORD.
RUM, or REUN. See CALE.
_Donner_ RUM _à une roche_. See FAIRE _honneur_.
RUMB _de vent_, a point of the compass. See AIR _de vent, &_ ROSE _de
vents_.
S.
SABLE, a watch-glass of any measure of time. See also HORLOGE.
SABLE _mouvant_, a quick-sand or shifting-sand.
SABORD, a gun-port in the ship’s side; whence,
_Fermer les_ SABORDS, to let fall, or shut in the port lids.
_Faux_-SABORD, a false port painted on a ship’s side, and
corresponding to a wooden gun, both which are calculated to deceive
an enemy in time of war.
SABORDS _pour le lest_, ballast-ports.
SACHETS _de mítrailles_, grape-shot, or partridge-shot.
SAFRAN _de gouvernail_, the after-piece of a rudder, used to augment
its breadth.
SAFRAN _de l’étrave_, an additional piece of timber fayed on the fore
part of the cutwater, to enlarge it, immediately above the
fore-foot, and enable the ship to hold the wind better.
SAILLE! a manner of shouting amongst the sailors, as a signal to pull
or heave all at once.
SAIN, clear, safe, or clean; as,
_Côte_-SAIN, a clean bottom, or clear coast, which has no rocks or
sands near it.
SAINT _aubinet_. See _Saint_ AUBINET.
SAINTE-_barbe_, or _chambre des canonniers_, the gun-room of a vessel
of war.
SAIQUE, a sort of Grecian or Turkish ketch.
SAISINE, a seising or lashing of any kind.
SAISINE _de beaupré_, or LIURE, the gammoning of the bowsprit. See
LIURE.
SAISER, to seize or fasten any rope with a lashing, &c. See AMARRER.
SALE, foul; an epithet given to a coast full of dangerous rocks,
shallows, and breakers.
_Vaisseaux_ SALES, foul-ships, or shipping with foul bottoms.
SALUER, to salute, or do homage at sea, by offering a salute.
SALUER _à boulet_, a salute fired with shot, being an homage paid only
to the king.
SALUER _de la mousqueterie_, to salute by firing a volley of
small-arms.
SALUER _de la voix_, to salute with three chears, &c.
SALUER _des voiles_, to salute by lowering the sails.
SALUER _du canon_, to fire a salute of canon.
SALUER _du pavillon_, to salute, by striking or hauling-in the
colours.
SALUT, a salute offered at sea by firing guns, &c.
_Rendre le_ SALUT, to return the salute.
SAMEQUIN, a sort of Turkish merchant-ship.
SAMOREUX, a very long and flat-bottomed lumber-barge or lighter, for
carrying masts and long planks on the Rhine, &c.
_Navire qui a_ SANCI _sous ses amarres_, a ship which has foundered at
her anchors.
SANCIR, to sink, or founder at sea.
SANDALE, a sort of lighter used in the Levant.
SANGLES, mats, or small panches formed of spun-yarn.
SAPINETTES, barnicles, a sort of shell-fish, that adhere to a ship’s
bottom which has been long at sea. See CRAVAN.
SARANGOUSTI, a sort of gum, used instead of pitch to pay the seams of
a ship in the East-Indies.
SART, sea-weed, wreck, or tangles; the alga-marina.
SARTIE, the rigging of a ship, in the dialect of Provence.
SASSES, buckets to draw water, for washing the decks, &c.
SAUGUE, a fishing-boat of Provence.
SAUSISSON, the trough, or sausage, filled with powder, which
communicates the flame from the train to the fire-pots or
powder-barrels in a fire-ship.
SAUT, a water-fall in a river, which renders it unnavigable in that
part.
_Donner un_ SAUT _à la bouline_, to check the bowline.
SAUTE, an expression of command, which answers to away up, or away out
to such a place! &c. as, Saute _sur la beaupré_! away out on the
bowsprit! &c. SAUTE _sur la vergue!_ go up to the yard, or out upon
the yard, &c.
SAUTER, to veer, or shift suddenly; expressed of a wind when it
changes to another point of the compass.
SAUVAGE, or SAUVEMENT, salvage, the payment of salvage.
SAUVE-_gardes_, the ridge-ropes which extend the nettings of a ship’s
head.
SAUVE-_gardes_, or _tire-veilles_, the horses, or man-ropes of the
bow-sprit.
SAUVE-_gardes de gouvernail_, the rudder-pendants, with their chains.
SAUVE-_rabans_, the puddenings of the yards, which preserve the
rope-bands from being galled by the top-sail sheets.
SAUVEURS, persons employed in recovering any stores, rigging, &c. from
a wreck on the sea coast.
SCIER _à culer_, to back a-stern with the oars; to row stern foremost.
SCIER _sur le fer_, to support the cable of a galley by rowing with
the oars, when she is at anchor in a storm, and in danger of driving
ashore.
_Mettre à_ SCIER, _ou mettre à culer_, to back the sails, or to lay
them aback, so as to make the ship fall astern.
SCIE-_babord_, pull the larboard-oars, or pull to starboard!
SCIE-_tribord_, pull the starboard oars, or pull to port!
SCITIE, or SATIE, a particular kind of Italian bark with two masts.
SCORBUT, or SCURBOT, the scurvy, a well known marine distemper.
SCOUE, the extremity of a floor timber, where it is joined to the
lower futtock.
SCUTE, a skiff, or small boat, belonging to a ship.
SEC, dry aground; the situation of a ship laid ashore to be repaired,
&c.
_A_ SEC, or _à mâts & à cordes_, a-hull, or under bare poles. See
METTRE _à sec_.
SECOND, or _vaisseau_ SECOND. See MATELOT.
SECRET _d’un canon_, the train of a piece of ordnance, which
communicates with the touch-hole.
SECRET _d’un brulot_, that part of the train where the match or fuse
is laid by the captain in a fire-ship, as ready for inflammation.
SEILLURE. See SILLAGE.
SEIN, a small bay or gulf with a narrow entrance: also a SEIN, or
capacious fishing-net of a particular construction, used on the
sea-coast.
SEIN _d’un voile_, the bight, cavity, or belly of a sail.
SEJOUR, the space of time that a ship remains in any port at which she
touches in the course of a voyage.
SELLE _de calfat_, a calking-box, which contains the instruments and
materials used in calking a ship.
SEMAQUE, or SEMALE, a smack or fishing sloop.
SEMELLES, or DERIVES, lee-boards.
SENAU, a snow; also a small Flemish vessel rigged like a smack.
SENTINELLE _de chaloupe_, the keeper of the long-boat.
SEP _de drisse_, the knights, or knight-heads of the jears, with their
sheaves: these machines are now entirely disused in English ships of
war.
SERGENT, a wraining bolt, to bend a ship’s planks into their places.
See ANTOIT.
SERRAGE, _ou_ SERRES _de vaisseau_, a general name for those planks of
a ship which are called _thick-stuff_ by our ship-wrights.
_Faux_ SERRAGE, loose planks, laid occasionally as a platform in a
ship’s floor when she has no ceiling.
SERRE-_bauquieres_, thick stuff placed under the clamps, upon which
the ends of the beams rest.
SERRE-_bosse_, the shank-painter of the anchor.
SERRE-_goutieres_, the water-ways of a ship.
SERRER _de voiles_, to shorten sail.
SERRER _la file_, to close or contract the line of battle, by making
the ships draw nearer to each other.
SERRER _le vent_, to haul the wind; to haul upon a bowline.
SERRER _les voiles_, to furl, or hand the sails. See FERLER.
_Faire_ SERVIR, to fill the sails after they had been shivering or
laid a-back for some time.
SEUILLETS _de sabords_, the port-fells, or lower part of the
gun-ports.
_Hauteur des_ SEUILLETS, the height of the port-fells from the deck
immediately beneath them.
SIAMPAN, a small coasting-vessel of China, with one sail, and two,
four, or six oars; extremely light and swift.
SIFFLEMENT, the whistling of a shot as it flies through the air when
discharged from a cannon.
SIFFLET, a boatswains call.
SIGNAL, a general or particular signal used at sea.
SILLAGE, or _l’eau d’un vaisseau_, the track or wake of a ship; the
trace which she leaves behind her on the surface of the sea.
_Doubler le_ SILLAGE _d’un vaisseau_, to sail with twice the velocity
of another ship; or, according to the sea-phrase, to sail two feet
to her one,
SILLER, to run a-head; to have head-way through the sea, &c.
SIMAISE, or rather CIMAISE, a wave or ogee in the sculpture of the
ship’s mouldings.
SINGE, a sort of _gin_, or machine, with a roller or winch in the
middle, which is turned by handspikes: and used to discharge goods
from a boat or small vessel.
SINGLER. See CINGLER.
SITUATION _d’une terre_, the bearings and distances of a coast.
SLEE, a sort of sledge or cradle, laid under a ship’s bottom in
Holland, &c. when she is to be drawn ashore to be repaired or
graved,
SOLDATS _de marine_, marines, or marine forces.
SOLDATS-_gardiens_, a division of marines stationed at a royal
dock-yard.
SOLE, the bottom of a vessel which has no keel, as punts,
horse-ferry-boats, and some barges of burthen.
_Le_ SOLEIL _a baissé_, the sun has fallen, or, has past the meridian;
an expression used when observing its altitude at noon.
_Le_ SOLEIL _a passe le vent_, the sun has overtaken the wind: _i. e._
the wind being south, the sun, by passing from south to S S W, is
said to have passed the wind. Hence they say, in a contrary sense,
_Le vent a passé le Soleil_.
_Le_ SOLEIL _chasse le vent_, the sun chases the wind; a phrase which
implies the change of the wind from the east to the west, by the
southern board, before sun-set.
_Le_ SOLEIL _chasse avec le vent_, the wind keeps pace with the sun;
an expression that denotes the change of the wind according to the
course and progress of the sun.
_Le_ SOLEIL _monte encore_, the sun continues to rise.
_Le_ SOLEIL _ne fait rien_, the sun stands still. Both these last
phrases are peculiar to the operation of taking the meridian
altitude.
SOLES, a name given to the bottom or transoms of a gun-carriage.
SOMBRER _sous voiles_, to overset in a squall of wind.
SOMMAILE, a bank or shoal. See BASSE.
SOMME, to deepen; as,
_La mer a Sommé_, the water deepens as the ship advances.
SONDE, or _plomb de sonde_, the sounding-lead; also the soundings, _i.
e._ the sand, gravel, &c. that sticks to the bottom of the lead at
the time of sounding.
_Aller à la_ SONDE, _Aller la_ SONDE _à la main_, to sail by the
hand-lead, or by sounding the depth of the water with a hand lead as
the ship advances.
SONDER, to sound; to heave the hand-lead, or deep-sea-lead.
SONDER _la pompe_, to sound the pump.
SONNER _le quart_, to ring the bell at the close of the night-watch.
SONNER _pour le pompe_, to strike the bell for pumping the ship, as at
every hour, or half hour.
SONETTE, an engine somewhat resembling a gin, and used for driving
piles.
SORTIR _du port_, to depart from a harbour; to sail out or put to sea.
SORTIR _le boute-feu à la main_, to set sail with the match in hand:
expressed of a port whose entrance or opening is so commodiously
situated, that a ship may sail from it with any wind, and be ready
for engagement immediately after her departure.
SOU, or rather FOND, the bottom, or ground, at the depth of any part
of the sea. See also FOND.
SOUABRE. See FAUBER.
SOU-_barbe_, a bracket or knee, usually ornamented with sculpture, and
placed under the cat-head to support it.
SOUBERME, a fresh, or torrent increased by the freshes of a river.
SOUFFLAGE, the doubling of a ship, or covering her side with new wales
and planks. See SOUFFLER.
SOUFFLAGE is also the new planking of a ship, or giving her a new
skin, after the old planks are ripped off.
SOUFFLER, to double a ship with new planks and wales, so as to stiffen
her when she is built too crank; or to prevent or diminish the
efforts of an enemy’s cannon.
SOUFFLER _les canons_, to scale the great guns, or cleanse them by
blowing a little powder from them.
SOULIE, the bed of a ship, or the impression she has left in the mud
on shore, after having lain aground during the ebb-tide.
SOULIER, the shoe of an anchor.
SOUN, or TSOUN, a large flat-bottomed ship, navigated on the rivers of
China.
SOUQUE! hang, or swing upon! a phrase among the common sailors, spoken
of a rope which they are pulling.
SOURCE _du vent_, the point of the compass in which the wind sits.
SOURDRE, to rise up, or brew; expressed of a cloud or squall issuing
from the horizon towards the zenith.
SOURDRE _au vent_, to hold a good wind, to claw or eat to windward.
SOUS-_argousin_, an officer in the gallies, who assists the argousin
in his duty. See ARGOUSIN.
SOUS-_barbe_. See _Sou-barbe_.
SOUS-_barbes_, short props or shoars, placed under the stem while the
ship is yet on the stocks.
SOUS-_barque_, the upper-streak of a lighter, or the streak which lies
close under the gunnel.
SOUS-_comite_, an officer in the gallies, who assists and relieves the
COMITE; which see.
SOUS-_fréter_, to under-freight a ship, or hire her out to a second
person, after having contracted for her freight to a first.
SOUTE, a store-room in the orlop of a ship, of which there are
several; as,
SOUTE _au biscuit_, the bread-room; SOUTE _aux poudres_, the
magazines, &c.
SOUTENIR, to support under the lee; expressed of a current which acts
upon the lee-side of a ship, and counter-ballances the lee-way, when
she is close-hauled, so as to keep her in the right course without
falling to leeward.
SOUTENIR _chasse_. See _Soutenir_ CHASSE.
_Se_ SOUTENIR, to bear up against a scant-wind or current, without
being driven much to leeward or down the stream.
SPARIES. See CHOSES _de la mer_.
SQUELETTE, the carcase or skeleton of a ship; or the ribs, with the
keel, stem, and stern-post, after the planks are ripped off.
STAMENAIS, or rather GENOUX, the lower-futtocks.
STRAPONTIN, a sort of hammock, used in hot climates to sleep in.
STRIBORD, or TRIBORD, the starboard-side of a ship.
_Avoir l’amure à_ STRIBORD, to have the starboard-tacks aboard, or to
sail upon the starboard-tack.
SUAGE, a coat of tallow, soap, sulphur, &c. with which the bottom of a
ship is payed, to enable her to sail smoothly through the water.
SUD, the south, or south-point. See ROSE _de vents_.
_Etre au_ SUD _de la ligne_, to be in south-latitude, or to the
southward of the equinoctial line.
SUPANNE, or _etre en_ PANNE. See PANNE.
SUPER, to stop or close accidentally; expressed of a leak which is
choaked, or filled with sea-weed, or such like material, that may
have entered with the water.
SURCHARGER, to overload a ship.
SURJOUAILLÉ, or SURJAULÉ, foul of the anchor-stock; expressed of the
cable.
_Le cable est_ SURJAULÉ, the anchor is foul, having a turn of its
cable under the stock.
SURLIER, to woold. See also ROSTER.
SURVENTE, a hard gale of wind, a tempest.
SURVENTER, to over-blow, or blow a storm.
SUSAIN, or SUSIN, a name sometimes given to the quarter-deck. See
GAILLARD.
SUSPENTES, vulgarly called SURPENTES, the main and fore-tackle
pendants.
SYRTES, shifting-sands, quick-sands, or shelves.
T.
TABERNACLE, or TENDELET, a place under the awning of a row-galley,
where the captain sits to give his orders.
TABLEAU, the compartment, whereon the name is engraved or painted on
the stern of a Dutch flight. See ECUSSON.
TABLETTE, the rising-staff; a form, or scale, used by shipwrights when
erecting the frames of the timbers.
TABOURIN, the fore-castle of a galley, with the space underneath it,
where the artillery are loaded and fired. See COVERT _de
l’iscosele_.