Chateaud’arriere, orde pouppe, the quarter-deck and poop.
Chateaud’avant, orde proue, the forecastle.
CHATTE, a small two-masted vessel, formed like a cat or Norwegian pink.
CHAUDERONde pompe, a plate of lead or copper, perforated with holes, to cover the bottom of a pump.
CHAUDIERE, the great copper, or kettle, in which the provisions for the sailors are boiled.
Chaudiereà brai, orà goudron, a pitch-kettle.
CHAUFFAGE, breaming-fuel, furze, or faggots, to burn the dirt from off a ship’s bottom at the time of breaming.
CHAUFFER, to bream a ship, or burn the filth from off her bottom.
Chaufferles soutes, to dry or season the bread-room, in order the better to preserve the biscuit during a sea-voyage.
Chaufferun bordage, to bend a plank, or make it pliant by heating it.
CHAVIRER, orTrevirer, to over-set, capsize, or turn any thing topsy turvy.
CHAUSSE, a present of money, or wine, given by the merchant to the master of a trading vessel, partly for himself, and partly to be distributed amongst the ship’s crew on a proper occasion.
CHEBEC, orChabek, a xebeck.
CHEF, the stem or head of a boat.
Chefis also a junk, or end of a cable, used as an headfast to a ship, when she is ready to be launched, and which is to retain her after she floats, till her anchor is carried out, or let fall from the bow.
Chefd’eau, high-water. SeeHautemarée.
Chefd’escadre, a commodore.
CHEMIN, a range of skeeds laid by seamen, to roll full casks upon, either on shore or aboard.
Chemindu halage, a path on the side of a river, or canal, for horses to track boats and vessels along the stream.
CHEMISEà feu, orSoufrée, a tarpawling, or a piece of old canvas, dipped in a composition of oil, petrol, camphire, and other combustible materials, and nailed to the planks of an enemy’s ship, when it is intended to set her on fire.
CHENALER, to find out a channel by the help of buoys, or of sounding, where the water is shallow.
CHENETS, a sort of iron claws used to bend the planks of a ship by fire.
CHERSONESE, a peninsula.
CHEVALET, a roller for passing the cables from one place to another.
CHEVAUCHER, to ride, or be fayed upon; a term in ship-building.
CHEVETde traversin de bittes, the lining or doubling of the bitts, which is employed to prevent the cable from galling them when the ships ride with a great strain.
CHEVILLE, an iron bolt, of which there are several sorts used in the construction of a ship: as,
Chevilleà boucle, a ring-bolt.
Chevilleà boucles & à goupilles, a ring which is fastened with a forelock.
Chevilleà croc, a hook-bolt for the gun ports.
Chevilleà goupilles, a forelock-bolt, or bolt fitted to receive a forelock.
Chevilleà grille & à boucles. SeeGoujon.
Chevilleæilettes d’affut, the eye-bolts of the gun-carriages.
Chevilleà tête de diamant, orà tête ronde, a round-headed bolt.
Chevilleà tête perdue, a bolt whose head is sunk into the timber wherein it is driven.
Chevilled’offut, a gun-carriage bolt.
Chevillede fer à charger le canon, langrage-shot.
Chevillede pompe, the short pump-bolt, or bolt to connect the brake with the spear.
Chevillede potence de pompe, a long pump-bolt, or bolt which fastens the brake to the cheeks or ears of the pump.
CHEVILLER, to bolt a ship, or drive the bolts which fasten one part to another.
CHEVILLOTS, belaying-pins, fixed in the rails fore and aft.
CHEVRE, a gin, or triangle with pullies.
CHICAMBAUT, orChicabaut, a bumkin. SeeBoute-lof.
CHICANERle vent, to ply or beat to windward. SeeLouvier.
CHIORME, or ratherChiourme, the troop or crew of slaves belonging to one row-galley, together with the volunteers who row at the oars.
CHIRURGIENmajor, the surgeon of a ship.
CHOPINE, orChopinettede pompe, the lower pump-box.
CHOQUERla tournevire, to surge the capstern; to lift up the rope passing round the body of the capstern, that it may not ride while the capstern turns.
CHOSESde la mer, ordu flot, wreck, or whatever is found floating at sea, or within certain limits of the sea-coast.
CHOUQUET, a cap of the mast-head.
CHUTEde voiles, the depth of the sails.
CIELembrumé, a cloudy, heavy, or dark sky.
Cielfin, fine weather, a clear sky.
CINGLAGE, orSinglage, the run of a ship for twenty-four hours, or the course and distance she has made between noon and noon.
Cinglagealso imports the pay or wages of mariners.
CINGLER, orSingler, to sail with a favourable wind on a particular course.
CINQUENELLE, orCincenelle, a general name for the tackling of the great guns, by which they are fastened to the ship’s sides, &c.
CINTRAGE, orCeintrage, a name given to any kind of lashing, or frapping, which surrounds the object it is intended to secure.
CINTRER, orCeintrerun vaisseau quand il largue, to frap a ship.
CIVADIERE, the sprit-sail.
CLAIRON, a clear spot in a cloudy sky.
CLAMP, a sheave, or small wheel, placed in a mortise, as in the foot of a top mast, to pass a rope through.
CLAN, a mortise or hole cut in a plank, mast, &c. lengthwise, to admit a sheave.
Clan, orClampde beaupré. SeeCoussin.
Clan, a sort of breast-hook in a large lighter.
CLAPETde pompe, the clapper of a pump-box.
CLAPETS, leathern flaps nailed on the outside of the scuppers, instead of scupperhoses.
CLASSE, a division of pilots, gunners, seamen, &c. engaged to serve in any naval armament for a limited time, after which they are relieved by another division sent from the shore.
CLAVETTE, orGoupille, a forelock.
CLEF. SeeChef.
Clefde beaupré, orBarrotde coltis, the collar-beam, which is raised a little above the second deck, to fortify the bowsprit.
Clefde pierrier, the forelock of a pedrero or swivel-gun.
Clefde pompe, a sort of wooden pump-bolt, to confine the brake within the cheeks or ears of the pump. SeeChevillede potence.
Clefdes étains, orcontre-port, a triangular cheek of timber, formerly used to connect the fashion-pieces with the stern-post.
Clefde ton du mât, orClefde mât de hune, the iron or wooden fid of a top-mast.
CLEFSdes guindas, the cheeks of the windlas.
CLERCdu guet, the clerk who assembles and musters the militia appointed to guard the sea-coast.
CLERCSde la secretaire, ordu gresse de l’amirauté, the messengers of the admiralty.
CLINCAR, a sort of flat-bottomed clinker-built pram, or lighter, of Sweden and Denmark.
CLOCHEde plongeurs, a diving-bell.
CLOISSON, a range of stanchions to support the bulk-heads, or partitions, which separate one cabin from another.
CLOPOTEUSE, turbulent or agitated; an epithet given to the sea when it runs high.
CLOU, an iron spike, or nail, of any size.
CLOUSà river, a rivet, or riveting-nail to be clenched at both ends.
Clousdes sabords, doubling-nails, to line the gun ports.
CO-BOURGEOIS, a co-partner in, or part-owner of, a ship.
COCHESd’assut de bord, the notches or steps of a sea-carriage.
COEFFÉ, aback.Un vaisseauCoeffé, a ship laid aback.
COEFFER, to back a sail, to lay aback, or to the mast.
COFFREà feu, a powder-chest, fixed on the deck or side of a ship, to-be discharged upon a boarding enemy.
Coffreà gargousses, a cartridge-chest, which contains the filled cartridges in a ship’s magazine.
Coffrede bord, a sea-chest, a sailor’s chest.
COINSd’arrimage, the quoins or coins used in the stowage of a ship’s hold, &c.
Coinsde chantier, the wedges driven between the blocks and the keel, when a ship is building.
Coinsde mât, the wedges of a mast, by which it is confined in the partners, or in the cap.
COITES, the ways, or cradles, upon which a ship gradually descends, when she is launched into the water.
Coitesde guindas, the cheeks or bits of the windlas. SeeClefde guindas.
COLLETd’étai, the eye of a stay placed over a mast-head.
COLLIERd’étai, the collar or lower part of a stay.
Collierdu ton, ordu chouquet, the iron clamp of a French cap. As the caps of English vessels are formed wholly of wood, this clamp is not in use amongst our shipping.
COLLIERSde défense, the puddening of a boat’s stem.
COLOMBIERS, two shoars employed to launch a ship into the water.
COLONNE, a line of ships, a line of battle.
COLTIS, the breast or front of a ship’s fore-castle, comprehended between the two cat-heads athwart, and descending from the top of the fore-castle to the platform of the head.
COMBATnaval, a general or particular sea-fight.
COMBUGERles sutailles, to fill the water-casks of a ship with fresh water.
COMITE, an under-officer of a galley, who commands the slaves.
COMMANDANT, a commodore. SeeChefd’escadre.
COMMANDE, holloa! the answer given by the sailors to the master, boatswain, or other officer, when he calls to them by the name of the place where they are; as, “Fore-castle, there! main-top, there! main-top, hoay!” &c.
COMMANDEMENT, the order or command to do any thing relative to the working of a ship.
COMMANDERà la route, to order or direct the course of a ship.
COMMANDES, knittles or seizings.
COMMANDEUR, the master or commander of a ship.
COMMIS, the supercargo of a merchant-vessel.
Commisdes bureaux des douanes, the surveyors of the customs who visit shipping.
Commisdu munitionnaire, orCommisà la distribution des vivres, a clerk or steward to the commissary or purser of a ship of war.
Commisgénéral des convois & congés, an overseer or inspector of the customs with regard to shipping.
COMMISSAIREde la marineimports in general a civil officer, or commissioner of the marine, of which there are several: as,
Commissairegénéral à la suite des armées navales, an officer who receives the orders and instructions of theintendantof a fleet of men of war, and performs his duty when he is absent. SeeIntendantdes armées navales.
Commissairegénéral de la marine, the principal officer under theintendant de marine, in his department. It is his duty, 1. To execute the orders of the admiral, or commissioners of the admiralty, with regard to the number of ships which are ordered to be taken into the service of the state; to provide for their being equipped, manned, and victualled, for the expedition to which they are destined; to press the masters and mates who refuse to serve, and to break, or disband and return, those who will not do their duty. 2. To measure the ships which attend a fleet; to give them orders, either to sail with the fleet, or to join it according to the regulations which have been made; to keep account of those who have been discharged from duty, and send them back in due time to the appointed place. 3. To attend the affairs of the dock-yards and harbours, and controul the clerks, artificers, and ordinary-men; to administer the oath of allegiance to them; to review the shipping, and take an inventory of the prizes. 4. To take care that the oldest and best seasoned timber is first used; and that the bolts, nails, and other iron-works, have their due proportions, and conform to their dimensions. 5. To examine, once every fortnight, the muster-roll of the artificers, signed by the clerks. 6. To observe that the master-shipwrights do in nowise depart from the draught which has been established by the council of construction, of which he is always possessed of a copy. 7. To inspect whatever concerns the port, and to take care that the ordonnances relative thereto are faithfully executed; and to see that the ships are properly situated, and each one moored in the birth assigned.
It is also the office of thecommissaire généralto keep a list of the sea-officers and sailors, able and ordinary; and to minute the ships in which they have served, and upon what footing they have been paid. With respect to the youths, officers servants, and other boys, their names, privileges, and time of service, are enrolled in a particular list; and each of them is furnished with a certificate, representing these articles.
Thecommissaire généralis not, however, always charged with these several employments himself. There are under his department, in different places, or according to the times, other commissaries, who share such services with him: as,Commissaireordinaires de la marine;Commissairesayant inspection sur les vivres d’un port, an agent victualler;Commissairepréposé pour l’enrôlement des matelots, clerk of the cheque;Commissairepour les constructions des vaisseaux; andCommissairedes ports, master-attendant.
Commissairegénéral de la marine ambulant, an officer whose duty resembles that of the former, but who has no particular residence, being intended to visit any one port or harbour occasionally.
Commissairede l’artillerie de la marine, an officer who, under the orders of the intendant, has the charge of the foundery, the proof of cannon and mortars, and of all other arms, gunpowder, ammunition, instruments, and implements of war. He has also the command of the gunners, matrosses, and bombardiers, maintained in a royal port, who are divided into squads, commanded bylieutenants de marine, or lieutenants of bomb-ketches. There are two of theseCommissairesgénéraux, one for the western ports of France, and the other for Provence, or the eastern ports.
Commissaireordinaire de la marine, an officer whose duty it is to superintend the ordinary, the several clerks in a dock-yard, the store-keepers accounts in a port, and the out-fits and return of stores of a fleet.
Commissaireordînaire de l’artillerie de la marine, an officer who performs the duty of theCommissairegénéral de l’artillerie de la marine, when he is absent. He keeps the keys of the naval magazine and artillery store rooms jointly with thegarde-magazin. He has also a key of the arsenal, wherein the fire-arms are disposed according to their length and calibre; and he keeps a register of all the artillery within the warren where he resides. This register contains principally the matter and fabric of such artillery.
COMMISSION, an order given by the king to an admiral, vice-admiral, or other superior officer, to cruise against, and seize, the enemy’s ships, &c.
COMPAGNE, the cabin of the steward of a row-galley.
COMPAGNIEde navires, orConserve, a convoy or fleet of vessels.
COMPAGNONS, a general name for sailors, mariners, or whoever forms a part of a ship’s crew.
COMPASazimutal, an azimuth-compass.
Compas,de carte, orCompasmarin, a pair of compasses, or dividers, used to prick a chart, or discover courses and distances thereon.
Compasde route, orde mer, a common sea-compass.
Compasde variation, an amplitude-compass.
Compasmort, a compass whose needle has lost its magnetical virtue.
Compasrenversé, a swinging compass whose face is downwards; it is usually hung over-head in the great cabin, to shew the ship’s course to the captain.
COMPASSER. SeePointerla carte.
COMPOST, a tide-duty, or revenue; arising from shipping.
CONFLUENT, the place where two rivers are united.
CONGÉ, a pass, or permission, granted to the master of a merchant-ship, by the office of admiralty, when he is ready to sail.
CONNOISSANCE, the skill and intelligence of a pilot; also a prospect of the land and sea-coasts.
CONNOISSEMENT, a ship´s bill of lading, or the manifest of her cargo.
CONSEILde construction, a council held in any of the king’s ports, consisting of theintendant(or commissioner),le commissaire général, and the principal officers, for the construction or repairing of ships of war. These last are usually styled the builders, and sometimesles charpentiers-constructeurs, the shipwrights.
Conseilde guerre, a council of war.
Conseilde l’amirautéa jurisdiction exercised under the name and authority of the lord-admiral, who has certain claims called the dues of the admiralty. The officers of the admiralty have their patents from the king, but they are nominated by the lord-admiral. The admiralty of France consists of a lieutenant-general, who is president, alieutenant particulier, three counsellors, an advocate, and a royal proctor; of a register in chief, and two serjeants or bailiffs.
Conseilde marine, a secret council held by the king and his ministers, to which he usually summons the princes and the chief officers of his fleet, to deliberate with them about the affairs of naval war.
CONSERVE, a fleet or convoy of ships, associated for their mutual defence and safety. SeeCompagnie.
CONSOLE, a bracket, or part where two pieces of timber are united by a bracket.
CONSOMMATION, the consumption of a ship during a sea-voyage, comprehending whatever has been expended, as cordage, canvas, ammunition, &c.
CONSTRUCTIONdes vaisseaux, the art of ship-building, or the practical part of naval architecture.
CONSUL, a consul established in foreign parts, for the protection of the commerce of his country.
CONTINENT, a continent, or vast tract of land.
CONTRATà la grosse. SeeBomerie.
CONTRE-AMIRAL, the rear-admiral of France.
Contre-bande, prohibited goods.
Contre-bittes, the standards which support the cable-bits.
Contre-brasser, to brace about the yards.
Contre-capionde pouppe, the upper part of the salse=post of a row-galley, which is a crooked piece of timber placed on the fore-side of the stern-post to support it. SeeContre-rodede pouppe.
Contre-capionde proue, the upper part of the stemson of a galley. SeeContre-rodede proue.
Contre-carene, the kelson of a galley. SeeCarlingue.
Contre-étambot, the knee of the stern-post, by which it is attached to the keel.
Contre-étambot, orFaux-étambot, is also the false stern-post.
Contre-étrave, the apron; a piece of timber which supports the scarf of the stem.
Contre-maitre, the boatswain of a ship.
Contre-marche, the general tacking of a division of ships, arranged on the same line, so as to preserve the line in its former disposition on the other tack.
Contre-marée, a spring-tide.
Contre-quille, the dead-wood placed on the keel fore and aft. SeeFausse-quille.
Contre-rodede pouppe, the lower part of the false-post, or counter-stern-post of a row-galley. SeeContre-capionde pouppe.
Contre-rodede proue, the lower part of the stemson of a galley. SeeContre-capionde proue.
Contre-sabords.SeeMantelets.
Contre-salut, the return of a salute at Sea.
CONTROLEURde la marine, an officer of the marine, who attends and controuls all the purchases and sales held in a royal dock-yard, assists at the general musters, reviews the artificers, and keeps a register of their names.
CONVERSO, the waist, or main-deck, of a ship.
CONVOI, the convoy or escort of ships of war, used to guard a fleet of merchantmen.
CONVOYER, to convoy or accompany a fleet of merchant-men as their escort.
COQ, the cook of a ship.
COQUE, a kink, or round twist, in a new rope.
COQUERON, the cook-room, fore-castle, or cuddy, of a lighter or hoy.
COQUET, a cock-boat, a sort of small boat which passes between Normandy and Paris.
COQUETER, to navigate or manage a boat by paddling, or rowing in the boat’s stern with a paddle.
CORADOUX. SeeCouradoux.
CORALINE, a light small long-boat, or lanch, employed in the Levant, to fish coral.
CORBEAU, a sort of sheer-hook or fire-grappling.
CORBEILLON, orCorbillon, a small kid, or tub, to contain the biscuit or sea-bread daily distributed to the several messes.
CORDAGE, cordage, a general name for all the ropes employed to rig or work a ship: the cables, or ground-tackling, are sometimes comprehended in this term. SeeCable,Manoeuvres.
Cordageblanc, white, or untarred cordage.
Cordageétuvé, cordage which has passed through a stove, to discharge its moisture or watery humour.
Cordagegoudronné, tarred cordage.
Cordageraque, orraqué, cordage which has been well rubbed, in order to take off the hulks, straw, or roughness of the hemp from the surface.
Cordagerefait, twice-laid cordage.
CORDAGESde rechange, spare-ropes, spare-cordage.
CORDE, a rope of any kind.
Cordede retenue, a guy, used to steady a heavy bale, cask, &c. when hoisted into a ship.
Cordede retenueis also pendant of a relieving tackle, employed to prevent a ship from over-setting, or falling down more than is necessary in the careen; and to right her, or pull her upright, when the careen is finished. SeeAttrape.
Cordede retenuelikewise implies a stern-fast, or large rope used to ease a ship gradually off the stocks, or to prevent her from launching too quick. This is meant of vessels launched head foremost, a method never practised in England.
CORDESde défense, fenders of junk or old cable.
CORDELLE, a warp or tow-line.
CORDERIE, a ropery or rope-walk, the rope-yard of a dock.
CORDIER, a rope-maker, or roper.
CORDON, a strand of rope-yarns. SeeToron.
CORNEde vergue, the crutch or cheeks at the inner end of a gaff, or boom which embraces and slides along the mast of a small vessel, as the sail is hoisted or lowered.
CORNETde mât, a step and partners peculiar to the masts of some small vessels, being open at the after-part, so that the mast may occasionally be lowered over the stern. SeeCarlingue.
CORNETTE, a broad pendant, displayed at the mast-head of a commodore.
CORPSde bataille, the center division of a fleet of ships of war.
Corpsde garde d’un vaisseau, the half-deck; that part of a ship which is under the quarter-deck and before the bulk-head of the steerage.
Corpsde pompe, the chamber of a pump.
Corpsd’un vaisseau, the hull of a ship, without her rigging.
CORRECTIONS, the methods of correcting the errors of a dead reckoning, by observations and allowances, as prescribed by the rules of navigation.
CORSAIRE, a privateer, also a pirate.
CORVETTE, a sloop of war.
COSSE, a thimble; also a bull’s eye, or traveller. SeeMargouillet.
COTE, the sea-coast, the shore.
Côteen écore, a bluff or bold shore.
Côtequi court nord-sud ou est-ouest, a coast which lies north and south, or east and west.
Côtesaine, a safe coast, where there is neither rocks or sand-banks, that may render the access dangerous to shipping.
Donner à laCôte,ranger laCôte. SeeDonnerandRanger.
Côtédu vaisseau, the side of a ship.
Presenter leCôté,mettre leCôté,du vaisseau en travers, to bring the broad-side to bear upon. SeeEffacer.
Mettre un vaisseau sur leCôté, to lay a ship on the careen. SeeAbattre.
Faux-Côté, lap-sided.
Côtédu vent, the weather-side, to windward.
Côtésous le vent, to leeward, the lee-side.
COTES, orMembres,d’un vaisseau, the timbers, or ribs of a ship, from the keel, upwards.
COTIER, a coaster, or coasting vessel.
COTONNINE, a species of thick sail-cloth, used in galleys and vessels of the Levant: it is formed by a mixture of hemp and cotton, the woof being of the former, and the warp of the latter.
COTONS, fishes of the mast. SeeJumelle.
COTTIMO, a duty or exaction of so much per cent. which the consuls, by order of their courts, or by the consent of merchants, demand of the shipping of their nation, when they enter a port where such consuls are established.
COUBAIS, a barge or galley of Japan, greatly ornamented, and rowed with forty oars.
COUCHE, the pillow of a stay, or the piece of wood upon which it rests.
COUDRAN, a mixture of tar and some other ingredients, used to prevent ropes from rotting. SeeGoudron.
COUETS, the tacks of the main-sail and fore-sail. SeeAmurer.
Couetsà queue de rat, tacks which taper to the point.
COUILLARD, an old term signifying the clue of a sail.
COULADOUX, shroud-tackles, which are used in the galleys, and some other vessels of the Mediterranean, in the place of dead-eyes and laniards.
COULANTES, orCourantes, the running rigging. SeeManoeuvrescourantes.
COULÉE, that part of a ship’s bottom which lies between the floor-heads and the keel, which is somewhat concave on the outside.
COULERà fond, to sink at sea. See alsoSancer.
Coulerbas d’eau, to sink deeper in the water; expressed of a ship when her leaks gain upon the pump, or when she receives more water than the pumps can discharge.
COULOIRS, certain gangways fixed on the sides of undecked vessels; also the grating-gangways on the sides of such vessels as have their decks arched very high in the middle, as xebecks, &c.
Couloirslikewise imports the passages that lead to the several cabins or store-rooms of a ship.
COUPd’assurance, a gun fired by a ship on her entrance into a port, when she displays her colours, as a sign of peace. SeeAssurance.
Coupde gouvernail, the whole force of the helm.
Coupde mer, the shock of a wave of the sea, striking a ship violently, and rushing over her deck.
Coupde partance, a farewel-gun, a gun fired as signal for sailing.
Coupde vent, a sudden squall or gust of wind.
COUPSde canon à l’eau, shot received under water, or between wind and water.
Coupsde canon en bois, shot received in the upper works of a ship.
COUPERla lame, to cut the sea, to divide the waves.
Couperle cable, ou le mâts, to cut the cable, or cut away the masts.
Couper,l’ennemi, to thwart or cross the enemy’s course, in giving chase to him.
COUPLEde haubans, a pair of shrouds.
Coupledu lof, ordu balancement, the loof-frame or loof-timbers.
COUPLES, the timbers of a ship, or the frames. SeeGabari.
COURADOUX, between decks, the space between any two decks of a ship; also the place where the soldiers sleep in a galley. SeeEntre-pont.
COURANT, a current or stream at sea.
COURBATONS, small knees used, in the upper part of a ship, for the same purposes as thecourbesare, in the lower parts.
Couratonsde l’éperon. SeeHerpesde poulainsandMontans.
COURBEcapucine, the standard which fastens the cut-water to the stem.
COURBES, a general name for the larger knees of a ship.
Courbesd’arcasse, the transom-knees, or sleepers.
Courbesde bittes, the knees of the cable-bits. SeeContre-bittes.
Courbesd’écubier, the cheeks of the head. SeeJottereaux.
Courbesd’équerre, orà fausse équerre, knees which are right-angular, and knees which are within, or without a square.
COURCIVE, orCourcite, a half-deck, formed in a vessel which is not wholly decked.
COUREAU, a small yawl of the Garonne.
COURÉE,Couroi, orCouret, a composition, or stuff, used to pay a ship’s bottom at the time of docking or breaming.
COURIR, imports in general, to sail, to run at sea, to stand onward.
Courirà l’autre bord, to stand upon the other tack.
Courirau large, to stand off. SeeTirerà la mer.
Courirau plus près, to run close upon a wind.
Couriren latitude, to run down latitude.
Couriren longitude, to run down longitude.
Courirla bouline, to run the gauntlope.
Courirla mer, to infest or scour the sea; to cruise up and down therein.
Courirle bon bord, to make a lucky cruise; a cant phrase peculiar to cruisers or pirates, and alluding to the capture or plunder of merchant-ships.
Courirmême bord, to stand upon the same tack as some other ship in sight.
Courirnord, sud, &c.to stand to the northward, southward, &c.
Courirsur la terre, to stand in shore, or on shore.
Courirsur un vaisseau, to chase or pursue a ship.
Courirsur son ancre, to run over, or foul of, the anchor.
Courirterre à terre. SeeRangerla côte.
Courirune bordée, orbord sur bord. SeeLouvier.
COURONNEMENT, the after-part of a ship’s taffarel, which is usually ornamented with sculpture.
COURROI. SeeCourée.
COURS, orCourse, a cruise at sea. HencefaireCours, to go upon a cruise.
Coursdu vaisseau, the course or run of a ship; also the wake, or track marked on the surface of the water behind her.
COURSIER, a bow-chase, or great brass cannon in the head of a row-galley.
Coursier, orCoursie, a fore-and-aft passage between the banks of a row-galley, where thecomite, or boatswain walks, to see that the slaves manage their oars and row with application.
COURSSIERE, a spar-deck, or grating-deck, reaching from the quarter-deck to the fore-castle.
COURTAGE, a tax or duty levied on all merchandises which pass by sea from one port to another.
COURVETTE. SeeCorvette.
COUSSINde beaupré, the pillow of the bowsprit.
Coussinde bittes, the fir lining or doubling of the bits. SeeChevet.
Coussinde canon, the bed of a cannon which supports the breech.
COUSSINS, the mats of the top-rims, used to prevent the top-sails from being fretted by striking the edges of the tops.
Coussinsd’amures, the mats nailed by the chess-tree, to prevent the clue of the main-sail from being galled when the tack is aboard.
COUSTIERES, the shrouds of a galley, which are usually formed of runners and tackles. SeeCouladoux.
COUTd’assurance. SeePrimeassurance.
COUTELAS. SeeBonnettesen étui.
COUTURE, a seam between the planks of the deck or side of a ship.
Couturede ceuille de voiles, the seam of a sail.
Coutureouverte, an open seam, or one from which the oakum has been expelled by the straining of the ship, &c.
COUVERTE, the deck of a ship, in the dialect of Provence.
Couvertede l’iscosele de proue, the fore castle, or fore-deck, of a galley, together with the space beneath it, where the cannon are planted.
COUVERTURESde fanaux, a sort of tubs to cover the top and poop-lanthorns, to preserve them when they are not in use.
CRAIE, a small Swedish ship, without top-masts or top-sails.
CRAMPE, a cramp-iron, or hook of a block.
CRAQUER, to crack or strain; expressed of a ship that labours greatly in a turbulent sea.
CRAVAN, a barnicle, or small shell-fish, of a disagreeable taste, which fastens to a ship’s bottom in a long voyage.
CREUX, the depth of the hold from the lower-deck beams to the floor.
Creuxd’une voile, the belly or cavity of a sail, which retains the wind.
CRIBLÉ, pierced with holes; expressed of a ship that has been much damaged by worms or cannon-shot.
Une voileCRIBLÉE, a sail much damaged by shot.
CRIQUE, a creek, or small natural harbour.
CROC, a boat-hook, or setting pole.
Crocde candelette, the cat-hook. SeeCapon.
Crocde pompe, the pump hook.
CROCSde palans, the tackle-hooks.
Crocsde palans de canons, the hooks of the gun-tackles.
Crocsde palanquins, jigger-tackle-hooks.
CROCHETSd’armes, certain crutches, or hooks, to support the small-arms in the cabins of a ship of war.
Crochetsde retraite, the eye-bolts, in the train of a gun-carriage, wherein are hooked the relieving-tackles.
CROISÉEde l’ancre, the cross of the anchor, or the part where the shank terminates at the arms.
CROISER, to cruise in any particular station.
Croiserà la lame. SeeDe boutà la lame.
CROISETTE, the pin or bolt used as a fid to any flag-staff.
CROISEUR, a cruiser, a vessel employed to guard a coast; also a pirate, or sea rover.
CROISEURS, orvaisseaux en croisiere, ships cruising in an appointed station or latitude.
CROISIERE, a rendezvous or latitude for cruisers.
CROITRE, to rise or flow; expressed of the tide.
CROIXsur les cables, a cross in the hawse.
CRONE, a wheel-crane, built on a wharf.
CROQUER, to hook or grapple any thing.
Croquerle croc de palan, to hook the cat to the anchor.
CROUCHANTS, the crochets, or floor-timbers fore and aft in a boat.
CROULER. SeeRouler.
Croulerun batiment, to shake a ship by jumping on her decks, in order to launch her from the stocks.
CROUPIARDER. SeeMouilleren croupiere.
CROUPIAT. SeeEmbossure.
CROUPIERE, orCroupias, a stern-fast, a stern-cable or hawser.
CUEILLE, one of the cloths of a sail.
CUEILLETTE, a measure or weight of any merchandise, which is equal to a quintal, or 100 ℔.
CUILLERà brai, a pitch-ladle, to pay the seams of a deck.
Cuillerà canon, orChargeoir, a gunner’s ladle.
Cuiller,de pompe, a pump-borer.
CUIRSverds, raw hides, used to cover the tops, lace on the yards, serve the cables, &c.
CUISINE, the galley or cook-room of a ship.
CULde lampe, an ornament of sculpture resembling the bottom of a lamp, and placed in several parts of the stern or galleries, to terminate the carved-work.
Culde pot,de porc, orde port, a double or single wall-knot, wrought on the end of a tack, stopper, or other rope.
Culde sac, a name given by the inhabitants of America to a harbour formed by nature without the assistance of art.
Culde vaisseau. SeeArriere.
CULASSE, the breech of a cannon, also the stock of a musquet.
CULÉE, the shock which a ship feels when striking the ground, on a rock or sand-bank.
CULER, to go astern, to have stern-way.
CURATEURde la marine, an officer who formerly assigned to the severalTriérarquesthe duties of their respective departments. SeeTriérarque.
CURETTE, a pump-scraper, fastened to a staff, or pole, of ten or twelve feet long, to clean the inside of a pump.
CUSEFORNE, a small, long, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan, without decks, employed to fish whales.