of the prow in a galley.
TAILLES _de fond, &_ TAILLES _de point_. See CARGUES _fond, &_
CARGUES-_point_.
TAINS. See TINS.
TALINGUER, or ETALINGUER, to bend the cable to the anchor-ring.
TALLARD, a space between the _coursiere_, or middle gangway, and the
gunnel, in a galley, where the slaves are placed to row their oars.
TALON _de la quille_, the after-end of the keel, into which the foot
of the stern-post is tenanted: this is also called a ship’s heel.
TALON _de rode_, the heel of the stern, or stern-post of a row-galley.
See RODE.
_Couper en_ TALUS, to hew a plank shelving, or with a slanting edge.
TAMBOUR, a drum; also the drummer, or person who beats it.
TAMBOUR _d’eperon_, the doubling of the cut-water, or the planks
nailed on the outside of it, to defend it from the assaults of the
waves.
TAMISAILLE, or TAMISE, the transom, upon which the tiller traverses in
a ship’s gun-room.
TAMPONS, wooden shot-plugs, employed to fill up the holes made in a
ship’s side by the cannon balls of an enemy: also plates of iron,
copper, or lead, used for the same purpose.
TAMPONS, or TAPONS _de canon_, the tompions of the great guns.
TAMPONS, or TAPONS _d’ecubiers_, hause-plugs.
TANGAGE, the act of pitching, or plunging with the fore and after ends
of a ship.
TANGUER, to pitch or plunge deep in the water forward.
TANGUEURS, or GABARIERS, lightermen.
TAPABOR, a sea-cap, a sailor’s cap or bonnet.
TAPEÇU, a sort of ring-tail, water-sail, or driver.
TAPONS _de canon_, &c. See TAMPONS.
TAQUETS, a general name for the larger cleats, or kevels, whereon the
running-ropes are belayed.
TAQUET _à cornes_, a large cleat, which is nailed or lashed by the
middle to a mast, plank, shroud, &c. and having two branches or
arms, whereby to fasten a rope so as to be cast off suddenly when
necessary.
TAQUET _à gueule, ou à dent_, a hollow or notched cleat, nailed at the
two ends; these are chiefly used to fasten casks, or other weighty
bodies, to the decks or sides of the ship.
TAQUET _de fer_, a wraining-bol. See ANTOIT.
TAQUET _de mât de chaloupe_, a small cleat, whereon the tack of a
long-boat’s main-sail is fastened.
TAQUETS _d’amure_, the chess-trees. See also DOGUE _d’amure_.
TAQUETS _de bittes_. See COURBES _de bittes_.
TAQUETS _de cabestan_, the whelps of the capstern. See FUSEAUX.
TAQUETS _d’echelle_, the steps which are nailed on the gangway,
whereby to ascend or descend the ship’s side.
TAQUETS _d’écoutes_, the kevels or great cleats, whereon the tacks and
sheets of the courses are belayed.
TAQUETS _de hune à l’Angloise_, the cheeks of the bow sprit.
TAQUETS _de mâts_, the belaying-cleats of the lower-masts, which are
usually furnished with several pins to fasten different running
ropes.
TAQUETS _de ponton_, large hollow cleats fixed on the side of a
pontoon, or sheer-hulk, to fasten the pendant of the
relieving-tackle.
TAQUETS _de potence_, the cheeks of a common sea-pump. See POTENCE.
TAQUETS _simples_, cleats which are formed nearly in the manner of a
wedge or quoin; they are usually nailed to the deck or sides, to
support or wedge up any weighty body.
TARRIERE, an augre, or auger, used by shipwrights to bore the planks
and timbers, in order to fasten them together with bolts and
tree-nails.
TARTANE, a tartane, or small vessel, usual in the Mediterranean.
TEMPETE, a tempest, or violent storm.
TEMS, a general term for weather.
TEMS _affiné_, fine weather, clear weather, or a clear sky. See
AFFINE.
TEMS _à perroquet_, a top-gallant gale, top-gallant weather.
TEMS _de mer_, or _gros_ TEMS, tempestuous weather.
TEMS _embrumé_, a fog; foggy weather.
TENAILLE, a wooden engine formed like a pair of pincers, and employed
to confine the planks of a ship in their places, till they can be
nailed or bolted to the timbers.
TENDELET, the tilt of a boat; also the awning or canopy in the after
part of a galley.
TENIR _au vent_, to keep the wind; to sail close upon a wind.
TENIR _bon_, to stop or cease from any exercise or labour in a ship.
TENIR _la mer_, to keep the sea; to keep out in the offing. See _Tenir
la_ MER.
TENIR _le balant d’une manœuvre_, to make fast the bight of a rope
when it hangs slack.
TENIR _le largue_, to sail large, or with a large wind.
TENIR _le lit du vent_, to have the wind right an end, or right in
one’s teeth.
TENIR _le lof_. See LOF _&_ OLOFÉE.
TENIR le vent. See ALLER _au plus pres_.
TENIR _sous voiles_, to get under sail; to set sail ready for putting
to sea.
TENIR _un bras_, to brace, or haul in the brace of, a yard.
TENIR _une manœuvre_, to make fast, or belay a rope.
TENIR, _or voir une terre_. See OUVRIR.
TENON, a tenant, or end of a piece of timber let into a mortise.
TENON _à queüe d’aronde_, a pivot, or tenant, formed like the spindle
of a capstern.
TENON _de l’étambot_, the tenant on the heel of the stern-post which
is let into the keel.
TENON _de mât_. See THON _de mât_.
TENONS _de l’ancre_, the nuts of an anchor.
TENUE, the gripe or hold which an anchor has of the ground where it is
sunk. See FOND _de bon tenue_.
TERMES, the quarter-pieces of a ship, by which the side is terminated
abaft.
TERRE _de beurre_, cape fly-away, a cant phrase applied to any
illusive appearance of land in the horizontal clouds, after sun-set
or before sun-rise.
TERRE _défigurée_, land which cannot be easily distinguished at sea,
on account of the clouds which rest upon it.
TERRE _fine_, land which may be distinctly beheld from the sea.
TERRE _grosse_, or _grosse terre_, high land on, or near, the
sea-shore.
TERRE _hachée_, a coast with an opening between two mountains.
TERRE _maritime_, the sea-coast, or sea-shore.
TERRE _Méditerranée_, an inland country.
TERRE _qui asseche_. See ASSECHER.
TERRE _qui fuit_, double-land, or land shut in behind a cape or
promontory.
TERRE _qui se donne la main_, land open to the sea, or accessible to
shipping.
TERRES _basses_, low flat lands on the sea coast.
TERRES _hautes_, high land on the sea shore; a bold, or iron bound
coast.
_Aller_ TERRE _à terre_. See ALLER.
_Dans la_ TERRE, or _Dans les_ TERRES, in-land; up in the country.
_Mangé par la_ Terre, land-locked; shut-in by the land.
_Prendre_ TERRE, to arrive at the land.
_Tout à_ TERRE, close in shore.
TERRE-_neuvier_, a Newfoundland cod-fisher.
TERRIR, to come to anchor; to arrive at the land after a long cruise.
TERTRE, an hommock, or hillock, rising on a level shore, and seen from
the sea.
TESSEAUX. See BARRES _de hune_.
TETE _de l’ancre_, the cross of the anchor, where the shank terminates
upon the arms.
TETE _de more_. See CHOUQUET.
TETE _de cabestan_, the drum-head of the capstern.
TETE _de potence de pompes_, the cheeks of the pump which support the
brake.
TETE _du vent_, the rising, or springing up of a breeze.
_Faire_ TETE, to hold well by the moorings; to be well moored.
TETIERE, the head of a sail.
THON _de mât_, the mast-head, or the space comprehended between the
cap of the lower-mast and the tressel-trees beneath it: and so of
the top-mast.
TIERS _point_, a triangular sail, as a lateen, or stay-sail. See
LATEEN.
TILLAC. See PONT.
_Franc_-TILLAC, or rather _premier-pont_, the gun-deck, or lower-deck.
_Faux_-TILLAC, the orlop. See FAUX-_pont_, and FAUX-_baux_.
TILLE, the cuddy, or cabin of a lighter, or other undecked vessel;
also the place where the helmsman stands in a Dutch flight.
TIMON, or rather BARRE _de gouvernail_, the tiller.
TIMONNIER, the helmsman, or steersman.
TINS, the blocks upon which the keel and floor-timbers of a ship are
laid while she is building.
TIRANT _d’eau, d’un vaisseau_, the draught of water of a ship, or the
depth of water which she draws to float her.
TIRE! the order to the boat’s crew to row hard, or forcibly a-head.
TIRE _du vent_, or TIRE-_avant_, pull away; pull a head chearly!
TIRE-_soin_, the worm used to draw the charge of a cannon.
TIRER _tant de pieds d’eau_, to draw so many feet of water, in order
to float. See TIRANT _d’eau_.
TIRER _à la mer_, to stretch out to sea.
TIRE-_veilles_, the man ropes, or entering-ropes of the side.
TIRE-_veille de beaupré_. See SAUVE-_garde_.
TOILE _noyale_, canvass, or duck, employed to make sails; sail-cloth.
TOILES _de sabords_, port-sails. See VOILES _à lest_.
TOISER, to measure by the fathom. See BRASSE.
TOLETS, or ESCOMES. See ESCOMES.
TOMBER, as a sea-term, implies to lean or incline; also to cease, or
fail; as,
TOMBER _sous le vent_, to fall to leeward.
TOMBER _sur un vaisseau_, to fall aboard a ship to the leeward.
_Le vent a_ TOMBÉ, the wind is spent, or decayed; it has become calm.
_Le Mât_ TOMBE _en arriere_, the mail hangs, or rakes aft.
TONIES, a sort of Indian boats which are usually lashed together in
couples, in order to carry sail the better. The two thus paired are
called _Catapanel_.
TONNE, a can-buoy, placed over a shoal, rock, or sand, in a channel;
also the nun-buoy of a ship.
TONNES, are also barrels fitted to cover the mast-head when it is
unrigged, to preserve it from rain.
TONNEAU _futaille_, a tun, or tun weight, containing 2000lb. also a
general name for all sorts of large casks, containing a measure
equal to that weight.
TONNELIER, the cooper of a ship, who has the charge of all the
provision-casks to keep them in proper repair.
TONTURE, the sheet of the wales and decks of a ship.
TONTURE _des baux_, the round-up, or convexity of a ship’s beams.
TORDES. See SAUVE-_rabans_.
TORON. See TOURON.
TORTUE _de mer_, a sort of transport-ship, formed with a high deck,
for the convenience of carrying troops, passengers, and their
effects, between decks.
TOSTE _de chaloupe_, the thwarts, banks, or seats of a boat, whereon
the rowers sit to manage their oars.
TOUAGE, the warping a ship from place to place; also towing. See
REMORQUER.
TOUCHE, the priming wire, or priming-iron of a cannon. See DÉGORGEOIR.
TOUCHER _terre_, or, simply TOUCHER, to run a-ground, or strike
against a rock, shore, or sand-bank.
TOUCHER _à une côte, ou à une port_, to touch at any coast or harbour.
TOUCHER _un compas_, to touch the needle of a compass with a magnet.
TOUÉE, a name given to two or three hawsers bent upon an end, _i. e._
fastened at the end of each other, and to an anchor a-head, so as to
ride a ship with more security.
TOUER, to warp a ship from one place to another in a harbour.
TOUR _à feu_, a light-house. See PHARE.
TOUR _de bitte au cable_, a turn of the cable about the bits; the
bitting of a cable.
TOUR _de cable_, a foul hawse; a turn or elbow in the hawse. See CABLE
and CROIX.
TOUR-_et-choque_, a weather-bit of the cable, or a turn and half-turn
about the bits.
TOUR _marine_, a watch-tower, or block-house, on the sea-coast.
TOUR _de cable autour du virevaut_, the turns of the cable round the
windlass; the act of passing it about the windlass.
TOURBILLON, a whirlwind upon the sea.
TOURET. See TOLETS _& echome_.
TOURILLONS, the trunnions of any piece of ordnance.
TOURMENTE, a tempest, or great storm. See TEMPETE.
TOURMENTER, when expressed of a ship, implies to labour or strain
violently; when spoken of timber, it denotes to warp or twist.
TOURMENTIN, a name sometimes given to the sprit-sail top-sail. See
PERROQUET _de beaupré_.
TOURNANT _de mer_, a whirlpool, or dangerous race in the sea.
TOURNANT, is also a stake or post sunk into the angles of a canal, for
the convenience of warping vessels up or down.
TOURNER _le bord_. See VIRER.
TOURNER _sur son ancre_, to pass round the anchor; understood of a
ship that, riding by a single anchor, has probably encircled the
place where it lies, so as to have swept it with her cable, and made
a foul anchor.
TOURNEVIRE, the voyal of the cable. See CABESTAN.
TOURON, the strand of a rope, composed of a certain number of
rope-yarns.
TOUT _le mond haut_! all hands, hoay! all hands upon deck hoay! a cry,
or order of the boatswain, to summons all the sailors upon the
upper-deck.
TOUT _le monde bas_, sit down close, all hands! the order to the
ship’s crew to lie snug upon deck or below, so as not to retard the
ship’s course by their motion upon deck, nor be discovered by the
enemy, of whom they are in chase.
TRAIN _de bateaux_, a train of boats in tow.
TRAIN _de bois_, or FLOTE, a raft, or float of timber.
_A la_ TRAINE, towing overboard; expressed of any thing towed in the
sea by a rope when the ship is advancing, to wash it; or, if salt
provisions, to freshen it.
TRAINÉE, a train of gun-powder.
TRAIT _de compas_, or TRAIT _de vent_. See RUMB.
_Voile à_ TRAIT _quarré_, a square sail; such are the courses,
top-sails, &c. of a ship.
TRAITE, the trade or commerce carried on between shipping and the
inhabitants of any country where they arrive.
TRAMONTANE, the north-wind, in the dialect of the Mediterranean.
TRAPE, or ATTRAPE, a tackle-fall. See CORDE _de retenue_.
TRAVADE, a tornado, or thunder-gust; as those on the coast of Africa.
TRAVAILLER, when applied to a ship, is to roll or pitch heavily, as in
a high sea; also to swell tumultuously, as the waves themselves. See
ROLIS.
TRAVAILLEURS, the ordinary, or labourers, &c. employed to assist in
fitting out shipping.
TRAVERS, in a naval sense, generally denotes athwart, abreast of, or
along side of: it is also applied to any piece of timber which is
laid across others and scored into them.
_Se mettre par le_ TRAVERS, or _Passer par le_ TRAVERS _de Torbay_, to
cross or stand athwart Torbay, &c.
_Le vaisseau est moüillé par nôtre_ TRAVERS, the ship has come-to,
abreast of us.
_La marée vient par le_ TRAVERS _du vaisseau_, the tide takes the ship
athwart, or on the broad-side.
_Mouillee par le_ TRAVERS _de Belleisle_, at anchor off Belleisle.
TRAVERSÉE, a passage from one port to another; an outward or homeward
bound voyage.
TRAVERSE _misaine_! flat-in the fore-sheet! flat-in forward! the order
to pull the lower-corners of the head-sails in towards the ship, in
order to make her fall off when the sails shiver in the wind.
TRAVERSER, to become abreast of, to sheer along-side of.
TRAVERSER _l’ancre_, to get the anchor up along the bow, in order to
stow it parallel to the gunnel.
TRAVERSER _la lame_, to head the sea; to sail against the setting of
the sea,
TRAVERSIER, a small fishing vessel on the coast of Rochelle,
TRAVERSIER _de chaloupe_, the fore-beam or fore thwart of a long-boat.
TRAVERSIER _de port_, a wind that sets right into any harbour, so as
to prevent the departure of a ship from it.
_Mettre la misaine au_ TRAVERSIER, to bring the fore-tack to the
cat-head; as when the wind is large.
TRAVERSIN. See TAMISAILLE.
TRAVERSIN _d’écoutilles_, a guttur-ledge, or cross-piece of a
hatchway.
TRAVERSIN _d’élinguet_, the beam into which the pauls of the capstern
are bolted.
TRAVERSIN _de herpes_, a ship’s davit; see also MINOT.
TRAVERSIN _des bittes_, the cross-piece of the bits.
TRAVERSIN _du chateau d’avant_, the cross-piece of the fore-castle,
which contains the kevels and cleats for belaying ropes.
TRAVERSIN _des affuts_, the transoms of the gun-carriages.
TRAVERSINS _de taquets_, the step or piece of timber in which the feet
of the main and fore-sheet kevels are lodged.
TRÉLINGAGE, a crow-foot. See MARTICLES.
TRÉLINGAGE _des étais sous les hunes_, the crow-feet of the tops.
TRÉLINGAGE _des haubans_, the cat-harpings of the shrouds.
TRÉLINGUER, to reeve a crow-foot, or form any thing similar thereto,
as the clue of a hammock, &c.
TRÉMUE, a trunk, or sloping passage formed in some merchant-ships for
the cables, from the top of the fore-castle downward to the hause,
and covered with a small grating.
TREMUE is also a hood, or companion, placed over the comeings of the
hatches in merchant-ships, to keep the steerage warm, and prevent
the rain or sea-water from falling into it.
TREOU, a square-sail, used to scud under in a storm, in small vessels,
particularly sloops, tartans, galleys, &c.
TRÉPORT, or _allonge de pouppe_, a stern-timber, whose lower end
corresponds with the top of the stern-post.
TRÉSORIER _général de la marine_, an officer whose duty resembles that
of our treasurer of the navy.
TRESSE _de meche_, a twill formed of three matches turned round each
other, to fire a cannon with more certainty and expedition.
TRESSES, a sort of knittles frequently used as seizings.
TRÉVIER, or _Maître-voiler_, the master sail-master of a ship.
TREUIL, a roller or winch of several kinds.
TRÉVIRER. See CHAVIRER.
TRIANGLE, a stage hung over a ship’s side, to calk the seams, or pay
the planks: also a machine composed of three capstern-bars, whose
ends are tied together, so as to form a triangle, to enclose any
mast, along which it may be hoisted or lowered, to scrape the mast,
or pay it with turpentine, resin, tallow, &c.
TRIBORD, the starboard side of the ship. See also STRIBORD.
TRIBORDAIS, starbowlines; a cant term for the starboard-watch.
TRIÉRARQUE, an officer formerly appointed to furnish a ship with
soldiers, rowers, arms, and provisions.
TRINGLE, a thin lath, used occasionally to fill up the edges of a
gun-port, deadlight, &c. and make it tight, so as to exclude the
wind or water.
TRINGLE is also a batten of wood about two feet long, nailed against
the butts or joints of a boat’s planks, to strengthen them.
TRINGLER, to mark timber with a chalked or red line, in order to hew
or bevel it to the exact form and scantlings.
TRINQUET, the fore-mast of a row-galley.
TRINQUETTE, a triangular fore-sail, as that of a sloop, and such
vessels.
TRISSE _de beaupré_, the standing-lifts of the sprit-sail yard.
TRISSE _de racage_. See DROSSE _de racage_.
TROMPE, or _pompe de mer_, a water-spout.
TROMPETTE _marine_, a speaking-trumpet used at sea.
TROUS _d’amure de misaine_. See BOUTE-_de-lof_.
TROSSE _de racage_, a small tackle, formerly used as a nave-line.
TROUS _d’écoutes_, the sheave-holes, which are cut obliquely through a
ship’s side, wherein the main and fore-sheets are reeved.
TROUS _de la civadiere_. See OEIL.
TUGUE. See TEUGUE.
TUTELLE, the tutelary saint represented on the stern of a ship, and to
whose protection she is consigned.
V.
VADROUILLE, a brush used to pay a ship’s bottom with tallow or stuff.
VA _et vient_, a span or rope extended from one place to another,
whereon to draw any thing along by the means of a traveller.
VAGANS, vagrants or hovellers, who infest the sea-coast in a tempest,
in expectation of plunder from some shipwrecked vessel. See DEBRIS.
VAGUES, the waves or surges of the sea. See LAMES.
VAIGRER, to fix on the planks and thick-stuff of a ship’s cieling to
the timbers.
VAIGRES, _ou serres_, a general name for the clamps and thick-stuff
used in the cieling of a ship; as,
VAIGRES _de fond_, the thick-stuff placed next to the keel.
VAIGRES _d’empature_, the thick-stuff placed between the floor-heads
and the _vaigres de fond_.
VAIGRES _de pont_, the clamps which support the ends of the beams.
VAIGRES _des fleurs_, the thick stuff placed opposite to the
floor-heads.
VAISSEAU, a ship, or large vessel of war or burthen.
VAISSEAU _à la bande_, a ship lying along, or heeling gunnel-to, under
a weight of sail in a fresh wind: this is frequently called lying
down on the beam-ends, or broadside.
VAISSEAU _à l’ancre_, a ship at anchor.
VAISSEAU _à son poste_, a ship in her station, as appointed by the
commanding officer.
VAISSEAU _beau de combat_, a roomy ship, advantageously built for
battle, as carrying her lower tier high above the water, and having
a good height between-decks.
VAISSEAU _corsaire_. See CORSAIRE.
VAISSEAU_ démarré_, a ship unmoored, or whose anchors are weighed;
also a ship broke adrift from her moorings.
VAISSEAU _gondolé_, a ship built with a great sheer.
VAISSEAU _qui a le côté droit comme un mur_, a wall-sided ship.
VAISSEAU _qui a la côté foible_, a streight-sheered ship.
VAISSEAU _qui a le côté fort_, a round-sided ship.
VAISSEAU _qui-cargue_, a crank ship.
VAISSEAU _qui charge à fret_, a laden or loaded ship. See FRET.
VAISSEAU _qui se manie bien_, a good working ship; a ship that is
easily managed and steered.
VAISSEAU _qui se port bien à la mer_, a good sea-boat.
VAISSEAU _ralongé_, a lengthened ship.
VAISSEAU _de bas-bord_, a low-built vessel navigated with sails and
oars, as the gallies in the Mediterranean.
VAISSEAU _de haut-bord_, a general name for large ships.
VALANCINE. See BALANCINE.
VALETS _d’artillerie_, the boys which attend the great guns in a
sea-fight, &c.
VALTURE, the lashing of the sheers; or a rope employed to lash two
masts together in any particular place, when they are to be used as
sheers.
VARANGUAIS. See MARTICLES.
VARANGUES, a general name for the floor-timbers; as,
VARANGUES _acculées_, the crotches or floor-timbers afore and abaft.
VARANGUES _demi-acculées_, the floor-timbers placed between the
_varangues acculées_ and the
VARANGUES _plates_, or VARANGUES _de fond_, the flat floor-timbers
placed in the middle or broadest part of a ship’s floor.
VARECH, sea-wreck. Also the wreck of a ship. See CHOSES _de la mer_.
VARIATION, the variation of the compass. See DECLINAISON.
VARIATION _vaut la rout_, the variation is on the weather-side, or
opposite the lee-way.
VASART, oozy, or slimy, expressed of a particular bottom or soundings
at sea. See FOND.
VASSOLES, laths or battens placed between the ledges of the gratings.
VEGRES. See VAIGRES.
VEILLE _la drisse_! stand by the haliards! the order to have the
top-sail-haliards ready to lower in case of a squall.
VEILLE _l’écoute de hune_! stand by the top sail sheets!
VEILLE _les huniers_. See VEILLE _la drisse_.
VEILLER, to watch, attend, or take care of any thing; as,
_Il faut_ VEILLER _les mâts, & non le côté_, we must look to the
masts, and not to the side; expressed of a ship, whose masts being
good, will rather overset her, than be carried away. When the anchor
is a cockbill, and ready to let go, they say, _Ancre est à la_
VEILLE; and when the buoy floats over the anchor to shew its place,
it is called _bouée à la_ VEILLE.
VENT, the wind.
VENT _alizé_, a trade-wind, or monsoon.
VENT _arriere_, a wind right aft or astern.
VENT _d’amont_, a land-wind, or land breeze.
VENT _d’aval_, a foul wind which blows from the sea, &c.
VENT _de bouline_, a scant-wind, on which the ship cannot lie her
course without being close-hauled.
VENT _de quartier_, a quarterly, or quartering wind[61].
VENT _en pouppe_. See VENT _arriere_.
VENT _en pouppe, largue la soute_; large wind, large allowance; an
expression used by seamen on the commencement of a fair wind, after
they had been put to short allowance in consequence of foul winds.
_Le_ VENT _en pouppe fait trouver la mer unie_, a stern wind brings an
easy sea; expressed of a ship when sailing afore the wind, in which
situation she will be less strained by the agitation of the sea,
than when she lies in the trough or hollow of it, side-ways.
VENT _largue_, a large wind.
VENT _routier_, a wind which serves to go and come upon the same line;
such is the wind upon the beam.
VENTS _variables_, variable winds, or such as are without the tropics.
VENT _à pic_, the wind is right down; a witticism amongst sailors, to
signify that there is a total cessation of wind, at which time the
vanes hang right downward, instead of blowing out.
VENTER, to blow or spring up; understood of the wind.
VENTILATEUR, a ventilator used at sea.
VERBOQUET, a guy used by ship-wrights to steddy a piece of timber
which they are erecting in a ship’s frame.
VERGE _de girouette_, the spindle of the vane at any mast-head.
VERGE _de l’ancre_, the arm of an anchor.
VERGE _de pompe_, a pump-spear. See also BARRE _de pompe_.
VERGUE, the yard of any principal sail which traverses the mast at
right angles.
VERGUE _à corne_. See CORNE _de vergue_.
VERGUE _de foule_, the cross-jack-yard.
VERGUE _en boute dehors_, the main-boom of a sloop-rigged, or
schooner-rigged vessel.
VERGUE _traversée_, the sprit which traverses a boat’s sail
diagonally.
VERIN, an instrument nearly similar to a jack-screw, and used
occasionally to launch a ship from the stocks.
VEUE, or VUE, _etre à vue_, _avoir la vue_, to be in sight of; to make
or discover at sea, as the land, or some distant object. See
NON-_vue_.
VEUE _par vue, & cours par cours_, sailing by the bearings, or
distances of the land, on the sea-coast.