comprehended between the drift-rails and the waist-rail.
VICE-AMIRAL, the vice-admiral of France.
VICTUAILLES, the provisions used for the subsistence of the ship’s
crew at sea, &c.
VICTUAILLEUR, a contractor, or agent-victualler.
VIF, alive, busy, all in motion; an epithet applied to a wharf, dock,
or slip, where the artificers are all at work on the shipping.
VIF _de l’eau_, or _haute marée_, high water.
VIGIE, a lurking rock, or reef; a rock under the surface of the water.
VIGIER, to look out, or watch upon deck, or at the mast-head, &c.
VIGIER _une flotte_, to dodge, or watch the motions of a fleet.
VIGOTS _de racage_. See BIGOTS.
VINDAS, a sort of moveable capstern; also a windlass. See VIREVAUT.
VIRAGE, the act of heaving up any weighty body by a crab or capstern.
VIRER, to overset.
VIRER _au cabestan_, to heave the capstern, or heave at the capstern.
VIRER _de bord_, to go about, or put about-ship.
VIRER _vent arriere_, to veer, or wear.
VIRER _vent devant_, to tack, or put about head-to-wind.
VIREVAUT, the windlass of a ship or boat.
VIROLE, a little iron ring placed on the small end of a bolt which is
driven through any part of a ship’s decks or sides; it is used to
prevent the fore-lock from cutting the wood.
VIROLET. See MOULINET.
VIRURE, a streak of planks continued from the stem to the stern-post.
VIRURE, is also the sheer of any plank in the ship’s side.
VISITE _de vaisseau_, an examination of the cargo of a ship by the
officers of the revenue.
VISITEUR, an officer resembling our tide-surveyors of the customs.
VITTES _de gouvernail_. See FERRURE.
VITTONIERES. See ANGUILLERES.
VIVIER, a fishing-boat, furnished with a well filled with water
amid-ships, wherein to keep the fish alive.
VIVRES. See VICTUAILLES.
UN, _deux, trois_, an exclamation, or song, used by seamen when
hauling the bowlines, the greatest effort being made at the last
word. English sailors, in the same manner, call out on this
occasion—haul-in—haul-two—haul-belay!
VOGUE, the rowing of a galley; the movement or course of a galley
rowed with oars.
VOGUE-_avant_, the rower who holds the handle of an oar and gives the
stroke.
VOGUER, to row, or give head-way to a galley by rowing.
VOILE, a sail; also a ship discovered at a distance.
_Avec les quatre corps de_ VOILES, under the courses and top-sails.
_Faire toutes_ VOILES _blanches_, to cruise as a pirate; to make all
fish that comes to the net.
_Forcer de_ VOILES, to croud sail. See FORCER.
_Ce vaisseau porte la_ VOILE _comme un rocher_, the ship carries her
sail as stiff as a church, or without seeming to heel.
_Les_ VOILES _sur les cargues_, the sails clewed up, or hauled up in
the brails.
_Les_ VOILES _sur le mât_, the sails laid to the mast, or aback. See
COEFFÉ.
_Régler les_ VOILES, to regulate or appoint what sail is to be
carried, in order to keep company in a fleet.
_Toutes_ VOILES _hors_, all sails set, all sails out, or standing.
_Les_ VOILES _au sec_, sails loosed, to dry in the sun or wind.
_Les_ VOILES _fouettent le mât_, the sails beat against the mast, as
when first taken aback.
VOILE _Angloise_, a boat’s sail with a diagonal sprit.
VOILE _d’eau_, a sort of water-sail used by the Dutch.
VOILE _défoncée_, a sail split or rent asunder in the bunt or middle.
VOILE _de fortune_. See TREOU.
VOILE _déralinguée_, a sail blown or torn from the bolt-rope.
VOILE _en banniere_, a sail, whose sheets being slackened or flown in
a storm, flies loose, and flutters in the wind like a flag or
ensign.
VOILE _en pantenne_, a sail shivering in the wind, for want of being
properly trimmed.
VOILE _enverguée_, a sail bent to its yard.
VOILE _latine_, or VOILE _à oreille de lievre_. See LATINE.
VOILE _quarrée_, a square sail, or sail nearly square; such as are the
courses, top-sails, and top-gallant-sails of all ships.
VOILES _basses_, or _basses_ VOILES, the courses. See PACFI.
VOILES _de l’arriere_, the after-sails.
VOILES _de l’avant_, the head-sails.
VOILES _d’étai_, the stay-sails. See ÉTAI.
VOILERIE, a sail-loft, or place where sails are formed.
VOILIER, a sail-maker.
_Bon_ VOILIER, or _mauvais_ VOILIER, when expressed of a ship, implies
a good or bad sailer, or one that sails swiftly or slowly.
VOILURE, the trim of the sails; also a complete suit of sails, with
their furniture.
VOILURE, a general name for all sorts of sails belonging to a ship.
_Meme_ VOILURE, the same sail set; expressed of two ships in company,
which carry the same quantity and number of sails.
_Regler sa_ VOILURE, to regulate the quantity of sail to be carried in
order to keep company with some other ship or ships.
_Toute la_ VOILURE _de l’avant_, all the head-sails.
_Toute la_ VOILURE _de l’arriere_, all the after-sails.
VOIR _l’une par l’autre_. See OUVRIER _& tenir_.
VOIR _par proue_, to see or discover, a-head of the ship.
_Donner la_ VOIX, to sing out; as in hauling, hoisting, heaving, &c.
VOLÉE, a platoon, or limited number of great guns in a broad-side,
fired at once in a sea-fight.
VOLET, a little sea compass, used in a long-boat or cutter.
VOLONTAIRES, volunteers in a ship of war.
VOLTE, a particular course or route; also the movement of bearing
away, or hauling the wind, to change the course, or bring the
broad-side to bear upon an enemy.
VOUTE, or VOUTIS, the upper-counter of a ship, upon which the
_ecusson_ is placed.
VOYAGES _de long cours_, a long voyage, as those to China, or the
Indies.
URETAC, a fore-tack-tackle, or preventer fore-tack.
VRILLE, a wimble, or drill, used by ship-wrights, &c. to bore holes.
US _& coutumes de la mer_, the usages and customs of the sea, which
are partly regulated by the laws of Oleron.
USANCE, the agreement, or contract, made between the master, the
owner, and freighters of a ship. See also the preceding article.
UTENSILS _du canon_, a general name for all the instruments used in
charging and firing a cannon, as the rammer, the ladle, the linstoc,
the spunge, &c.
UVOLFE, a dangerous whirl-pool, or race, known by the name of the
Wolf, between two islands on the coast of Norway.
W.
WATREGANS, pronounced OUTREGANS, a sort of canals or ditches, filled
with water, which are usually navigable for boats and small-craft.
WOLFE, or _Vulfe_, a whirl-pool, or race, on the coast of Norway.
Y.
YACHT, or YAC, a yacht.
YEUX _de bœuf_, bulls eyes, or wooden travellers; also the trucks of a
parrel.
YEUX _de pie_. See OEIL _de pie_.
Z.
ZEPHIRE, or ZEPHIR, the west wind.
ZOPISSA, or _poix navale_, tar. See GOUDRON.
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Footnote 59:
This manœuvre, according to the best of my information, is entirely
unknown to our mariners; it is performed by lining, or doubling,
the flukes of an anchor, with two pieces of plank, to strengthen
them, and prevent their turning in a bad anchoring-ground.
Footnote 60:
According to the arrangement of the French navy, this class
comprehends all vessels of war from 50 to 20 guns.
Footnote 61:
M. Saverien defines this to be a wind perpendicular to the ship’s
course, and, consequently, a wind _upon the beam_; but I have
ventured to correct this explanation, by the authority of M.
Aubin, who is certainly right in his description.
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2. Did =not= correct either spelling or accents except as noted or to
conform with predominant usage in this book.
3. Issues noted in the ERRATA sections were =not= corrected.
4. Added missing subsection headings—A in the English definitions and A
in the French definitions.
5. Moved two paragraphs “In the fore-part of the ship, the dead-wood
generally extends from ... the breadth of the keel” from after
Dead-Water to after Dead-Wood.
6. Changed “part of he sail” to “part of the sail.”
7. Changed “This last is appropropriated” to “This last is
appropriated.”
8. Changed “than it hot weather” to “than in hot weather.”
9. Changed “1½” to “0½” for pounders in second section to agree with
the first part of the table.
10. Changed “an the enemy” to “an enemy.”
11. Changed “the drive the tree-nails” to “to drive the tree-nails.”
12. The entry for “Varangues demi-acculées, the floor-timbers placed
between the varangues acculées and the” ended at the word “the”.
13. Silently corrected typographical errors.
14. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
15. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
16. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript
character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in
curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.