Universal Dictio
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.
作者：Falconer, William, 1732-1769
体例：段 章数：52
字数：1,048,332 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 52 段- By his orders the admiral is likewise to assist at all counc
- To form a just idea of this plane, therefore, we ought to su
- The parallel horizontal lines nearly opposite to these, on t
- BANKS on the sea-coast are usually marked by beacons or buoy
- The top-block is used to hoist up or lower down the top-mast
- BOX-HAULING, in navigation, a particular method of veering a
- The hull being thus fabricated, they proceed to separate the
- The breadth of the wheels is always equal to that of the che
- Canoes are of various sizes, according to the uses for which
- CHEARLY, a phrase which usually implies heartily, chearfully
- CRINGLE, _ancet_, a small hole made in the _bolt-rope_ of a
- DIVISION, a select number of ships in a fleet or squadron of
- Since a general engagement of fleets or squadrons of men of
- “At this command the gun is, in the first place, to be eleva
- The captain of the fire-ship should himself be particularly
- GAMMONING, _lieure_, a rope used to bind the inner quarter o
- The hause accordingly is foul, by having either a cross, an
- It has been already remarked, that the effect of moving the
- The jigger is particularly useful when the cable is either s
- To facilitate the operation of lanching, and prevent any int
- Besides these advantages, this order of battle is singularly
- As the sails, yards, and rigging of the main-mast, are all d
- As the chief object of our attention has been to facilitate
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- The last, which are known by the name of truss-parrels, are
- The puddening, which is represented by fig. 1. plate VIII. i
- It was the opinion of engineers formerly, that by charging t
- The same reason may be alledged, with equal propriety, in fa
- ROUNDING-UP is used nearly in the same sense, only that it i
- ‘It is allowed to the commanders of his Majesty’s ships in f
- _Weatherly_-SHIP. See WEATHERLY SHIP.
- SPILLING-LINES, certain ropes fixed occasionally to the main
- STIFF, the quality by which a ship is enabled to carry a suf
- When a tackle consists of two or more fixed and moveable blo
- As the transoms fill up the whole space comprehended between
- The high reputation of Dr. Halley’s magnetical chart renders
- A variety of authors have written on the cause and effects o
- 8th. Along the coast of Guinea, from Sierra Leone to the isl
- “And here I must observe, that there have not been wanting p
- The reader, who wishes to be expert in this manœuvre, will f
- ARISER _les vergues_, to strike the lower yards down upon th
- BOUSSOLE _de cadran_, an horizontal dial, with a magnetical
- CHOPINE, or CHOPINETTE _de pompe_, the lower pump-box.
- COURSIER, or COURSIE, a fore-and-aft passage between the ban
- ECOUTE _de bonette en étui_, the tack or guy of a studding-s
- FILER _sur ses ancres_, to pay out more cable to the anchors
- HUTTER, to lower the lower yards down a port-last, and peek
- _Aller à_ MATS _& à cordes_, _Mettre à_ MATS _& à cordes_, _
- PENNE, the peek of a mizen, or lateen sail.
- RATION _et demie_, the allowance of a sea-officer in the Fre
- TAILLE-_mer_, or _gorgere_, the lower part of a ship’s cut-w
- VIBORD, the quick-work, or that part of a ship’s side which