Estropesde marche-pieds, the stirrups of the horses.
ETABLIsur ses amarres, settled, moored, or stationed in a port.
ÉTAI, the stay of a mast.
Étaidu grand mât, orgrand etai, the main-stay.
Étaidu grand mât de hune, the main-top-mast-stay.
Étaidu grand perroquet, the main-top-gallant-stay.
Étaidu mât d’artimon, the mizen-stay.
Étaidu mât de hune d’avant, the fore-top-mast-stay.
Étaidu misaine, ordu mât de misaine, the fore-stay.
Étaide perroquet d’artimon, orde foule, the mizen-top-mast-stay,
Étaide voile d’étai, a stay-sail-stay.
Faux-Étai, a preventer-sail.
ETALER, to anchor during the interval of a contrary tide, in a foul wind, with intent to pursue the course the next favourable tide.
ETALINGUE, the part of a cable which is bent to the anchor.
ETALINGUER, to bend the cable to its anchor.
ETAMBOT, the stern-post of a ship.
ETAMBRAIES, the holes or scuttles in a ship’s decks, through which the masts are let down; also the partners of the mast.
ETAMINE, buntine; a cloth of which a ship’s colours are made.
ETANCHER, to stop a leak; also to pump the water out of a ship.
ETANÇONS, a sort of stanchions.
ETAPE, a mart, or place of public sale for merchandise; also a commercial port.
ETARCURE, the drop or depth of a sail.
ETATd’armement, a list, or register, containing the number of ships, and of officers, destined for a naval armament; as also the quality and proportion of cordage, sails, and furniture of a ship, &c.
Capitaine du grandEtat, a captain of a ship of the line of battle.
Capitaine du petitEtat, a master and commander.
ETENDARD, the royal standard, carried by the principal galley of France.
ETÉSIES, orventsEtésiens, trade-winds, or monsoons.
ÉTOUPE, oakum, or oakham.
Étoupeblanche, white oakum, or that which is formed of untarred ropes.
Étoupegoudronnée, black oakum, or oakum made of tarred ropes.
ETRAQUE, the limited breadth of a streak, or plank, used in ship-building.
Etraquede gabord, the garboard-streak, or the breadth of the streak next to the keel.
ETRAVE, the stem of a ship.
ETREà flot, the state of being buoyed up by the water.
Etreà la gamelle, to mess with the common sailors.
Etreau dessus du vent. SeeAvantagedu vent.
Etrebanqué, ordébanqué, to be upon, or off, the grand bank of Newfoundland.
Etredans les eaux d’un vaisseau, to be in the wake of a ship.
Etrede bout au vent. SeeAllerde bout au vent.
Etreflanc à flanc. SeeProlonger.
Etrepratique de la mer, to be accustomed or inured to the sea.
ETRIER, the lower link of the chains of a shroud, which is bolted to the wales.
ETRIERS, strops formed of a piece of rope. SeeEstropes.
ETUVE, a stove in a dock-yard, fitted with furnaces and cauldrons, for tarring cordage, &c.
EVENT, the vent of a cannon, or difference between the diameter of the bore and the diameter of the shot.
EVENTERles voiles, to fill the sails.
EVITÉE, the channel of a river, or the breadth of a channel.
Evitée, a birth, or sufficient space to let a ship swing round at the length of her mooring.
Evitéeis also the birth or space between two ships at anchor, or between one ship and some neighbouring object; likewise the sweep or swing of a ship round her anchor, at the length of her cable.
EVITERà marée, to stem the tide or current.
Eviterau vent, to carry the head to windward, to stem the wind.
EVOLUTIONS, the movements of a fleet in forming the line of battle, or the orders of retreat, or sailing.
EXERCICE, the naval exercise, or the preparatory practice of unmooring, setting sail, stowing the anchors, &c.
Exercicedu canon, the exercise of the great guns.
EXPEDITIONmaritime, a cruise or long voyage at sea.
FABRIQUE, the particular built or structure of a ship, either with regard to her figure, or the place where she was fabricated.
FABRIQUER, to build or construct a ship.
FAÇONS, the narrowing of a ship’s floor afore and abaft.
FAGOT. SeeBarque.
FAIREabattre. SeeAbattre.
Faireabordage. SeeAbordage.
Faireaiguade, orFairede l’eau, to water a ship, or procure the provision of water necessary for a voyage, &c.
Fairebon bord, orbonne bordée, to make a good board or tack, when turning to windward.
Fairecanal, to sail through a streight or narrow channel. This phrase is more peculiar to the gallies than other vessels.
Fairecapot, to overset, or overturn, at sea.
Fairechapelle. SeeChapelle.
Fairechaudiere, to cook and prepare the seamens victuals.
Fairecourir, orrecourir la bouline, ortoute autre manœuvre, to let run, or over-haul the bowline, or any other rope.
Fairedégrat, to quit a station, on the banks of Newfoundland, where there are few fish, in order to search for a better fishing place.
Fairedes feux, to hang out lanthorns, as signals of distress, in different places of a ship, in the night.
Fairedu bois,du biscuit,du vin,de la farine, &c. to furnish a ship with the provision of wood, bread, wine, flour, &c.
Faireeau, to leak, to make water.
Faireescale, to touch at any intermediate port in the course of a voyage.
Fairefeu des deux bords, to cannonade, or fire on an enemy, from both sides of a ship.
Fairefiler un cable, to pay out a larger scope of cable.
Faireforce de voiles, to make sail, to croud sail.
Faireforce de voiles & rames, to croud sail and exert all the force of the oars.
Fairegouverner, to cunn the ship, or observe that the helmsman steers the ship right.
Fairehonneur à une roche ou a quelqu’autre danger, to give birth to a rock or other dangerous object in a ship’s course.
Fairela course. SeeAlleren course.
Fairela grande bordée, to set the half-watch, or the watch of half the ship’s crew, as at sea.
Fairele petit bordée. SeeBordée.
Fairele nord,le sud, &c. to stand to the northward, southward, &c.
Fairepavillon, to carry a broad pendant, as the commodore or commander in chief of a squadron, &c.
Fairepavillon, orbanniere d’une nation, to hoist or shew the colours.
Fairepavillon blanc, to display a flag of truce.
Fairepetites voiles, to be under small sails, to carry little sail.
Faireplus de voiles, to make sail, to make more sail.
Fairequarantaine, to perform quarantine.
Faireroute, to stand onward on the course.
Fairesa route en droiture. SeeAlleren droiture.
Faireservir, to fill the sails; to make sail, after having lain by for some time.
Faireservir les voiles, to brace about and fill.
Faireson quart. SeeQuart.
Fairetéte, to carry the head to a current or wind.
Faireune descente, to invade, or make a descent upon, an enemy’s country.
Fairevoilesorvoile, to depart and set sail; to be under sail.
FAIS COURIR, keep her full! the order to the helmsman to steer the ship so as not to shake in the wind when close hauled.
FAIT, fixed, or set-in; an epithet applied to the wind, when it is supposed to be settled for a time.
FAIX, orFaixde pont. SeeIloires.
FALAISE, a steep and bold shore.
FALAISER, to break or burst over the rocks, &c. understood of the waves upon a sea coast.
FANAL, a light-house on the sea-coast. SeePhare.
Fanalis also the poop or quarter-lanthorn of a ship.
Fanalde hune, the top-lanthorn.
Fanalde soute, the light-room of a ship’s magazine.
FANAUXde combat, the lanthorns used between the guns, in time of battle.
Fanauxpour signaux, signal-lanthorns.
FANON, the balance of the mizen.
FARAILLON, a small sand-bank.
FARAIS, a sort of nets for fishing of coral.
FARDAGE, the dinnage laid in a ship’s hold, when she is to be laden with a cargo of corn, fast, &c.
FARE. SeePhare.
FARGUES, orFardes, the sides of a ship’s waist, from the main-deck upwards to the gunnel.
FASIER, to shiver the sails. SeeBarbeyer.
FAUBER, a swab. Whence
FAUBERTER, to swab a ship’s decks, &c.
FAUSSEécoute. SeeÉcoutesde bonnettes en étui.
Fausseétrave, or ratherContreétrave, the stemson.
Faussegalerie, a quarter-badge.
Faussequille, a piece of timber placed on the top of the keel, in the interval between the dead-wood afore and abaft: also the false keel.
FAUSSESlances, wooden guns, fixed on a ship’s side to deceive an enemy in time of war.
FAUXcoté, the side of a ship which heels most when she is lap-sided, or is not trimmed upright by her cargo.
Fauxétai, a preventer-main-stay.
Fauxétais, a general name for the stay-sail-stays.
Fauxétambot, the back of the stern-post.
Fauxfeux, signals made by false fires.
Fauxpont, the orlop-deck, or platform.
Fauxracage, a preventer-parrel, used to confine the yard to the mast, in case the parrel should be shot away in battle. This machine is never used in English shipping.
Fauxringot. SeeSafran.
Fauxsabords, false ports, painted in a ship’s side, to deceive an enemy. SeeFausseslances.
FAYFENA, a sort of Japonese galley, which usually rows with about thirty oars.
FELOUQUE, an Italian felucca.
FEMELLES, the googings used to hang the rudder on the stern-post.
FÉMELOTS, the googings of a boat’s rudder, &c.
FER, a name given to an anchor in a row-galley.
Ferde chandelier de pierrier, the socket in which the swivel of a pedrero rests and traverses.
Ferde girouette, the spindle which supports the vane at the mast-head.
FERLER, to furl, hand, or stow the sails.
FERMETURE. See the subsequent article.
FERMURES, the planks of a ship’s side in the intervals between the wales.
FERRURE, the iron-work of a ship, as chains, bolts, spikes, nails, &c.
Ferrurede chaloupe, the iron-work employed to fit the mast, boom, and rudder of a long-boat.
Ferrurede gouvernail, the pintles and googings of a ship’s rudder.
Ferrurede sabords, the hinges of the gun-ports.
FERSd’arcboutans, orboute de hors, the goose-neck of a studding-sail-boom; also the fork of a fire-boom.
Ferspour les criminels, bilboes, or fetters, to confine criminals.
FESSES, a name usually given to the buttocks, or prominent quarters, of a Dutch flight or cat.
FEUgrégeois, an artificial fire, or inflammable composition, used sometimes to burn an enemy’s ship in battle.
Feusaint Elme, a corposant, sometimes called Castor and Pollux.
FEUXd’artifice, artificial fires used at sea.
FICHURE, a fish-gig, or staff with several grains or prongs, used to strike fish at sea. SeeFoesne.
FIGALE, an Indian vessel with one mast, usually rowed with oars.
FIGULES, orFigures. SeeEnflechures.
FILde carret, a rope-yarn.
Filde voile, de tré, ou de trévier, twine for sail-making.
FILADIERE, a small flat-bottomed boat used on the Garonne.
FILANDRES, sea-weeds which adhere to a ship’s bottom that has been long at sea.
FILARETS, rails used to extend the nettings on a ship’s quarter, waist, or fore-castle.
FILEbouline, check the bowline! the order to ease-off, or let go the bowline, when the ship veers before the wind.
NeFileplus, amarre, keep fast the cable! stopper the cable! veer no more!
FILER, to slacken, or lower gradually.
Filerdu cable, to veer out, or veer away the cable.
Filerde l’écoute, to ease-off a sheet.
Filerle cable bout par bout, to veer away the cable to the end, to veer out the cable end for end.
Filerles manœuvres. SeeLarguer.
Filersur ses ancres, to pay out more cable to the anchors.
Filertoute l’écoute, to let fly a sheet, as in a squall of wind which endangers the ship.
FILET, a sort of moulding on a ship’s side.
Filetde merlin, a marling; a small line so called. SeeMerlin.
FILEUX, orTaquet. SeeTaquet.
FINde voiles, swift of sailing.
FISCAL, orAvocat-Fiscal, an officer whose duty is similar to that of the judge-advocate of a court-martial at sea.
FISOLERES, small boats used by the Venetians, one of which is often carried by the waterman who manages it, upon his shoulders.
FISOLLE, orFicelle, whipping-twine; also a fox, formed of a single rope-yarn.
FLAMBEAUde mer, a title given to a book of sea-charts, coasts, soundings, &c.
FLAMME, a broad-pendant, displayed as a mark of distinction, ornament, or signal.
FLAMMEROLES. SeeFeusaint Elme.
FLANCde vaisseau, the side of a ship.
EtreFlancàFlanc, to lie alongside of, to be broadside-and-broadside.
FLASQUES, the cheeks or sides of a gun-carriage.
FLECHEde l’eperon. SeeHerpesandLissesde poulaine.
FLETTE, a sort of punt, or flat-bottomed boat, used for the passage of a river, or carrying goods, &c.
AFLEURd’eau, level with the surface of the water.
FLEURS, those parts of a ship which lie at the floor-heads, or the upper-ends of the floor-timbers.
FLIBOT, a small Dutch vessel, which usually carries about one hundred tons, and has a main-mast and fore-mast, without any top-mast.
FLIBUSTIERS, orCorsaires, freebooters or bucaneers.
Florerun vaisseau, orlui donner lesFleurs, to pay a ship’s bottom; to give her a clean bottom by careening, &c.
FLOT,Flots, the surge or waves of the sea.
Abandonner un vaisseau à la merci desFlots, to let a ship drive at the mercy of the waves and winds.
FLOT, the flood-tide.
Demi-Flot, half-flood.
Il y àFlot, the tide flows, it is flowing water.
Etre àFlot, to float, to be afloat upon the water.
Ligne deFLOTTAISON, a line described on the bottom of a ship, by the surface of the water in which she floats.
FLOTTE, a fleet of ships.
FLOTTER, to swim or float upon the surface of the water.
FLOTTILLE, a small squadron of Spanish ships, usually stationed in America.
FLUTE, a flight or fly-boat, called alsoPinque, but differing in shape from the English ship so called.
FLUX & REFLUX, the tides of flood and ebb.
FOC, a jib.
Le grandFoc, the standing jib.
FOESNE, a forked instrument with several prongs and a long handle to strike fish; it is usually termed grains, or fish-gig, by the English mariners. SeeFichure.
FOITde mât, the height of a mast, expressed of a very high or taunt mast.
FONCET, a long flat-bottomed barge, for carrying goods in a river, &c.
FOND, the ground or bottom of the sea.
Fondd’affut, the sole or bottom of a gun-carriage.
Fondde bonne tenüe, good holding ground, or good anchoring-ground.
Fondde cale, the hold of a ship.
Fondde cours ou cure, a bottom of fine sand.
Fondde la hune, the platform or flooring of the top.
Fondde mauvaise tenüe, bad anchoring ground.
Fondde roche, rocky ground.
Fondde son, a bottom where the sand appears like bran.
Fondde voile, the bunt of a sail.
Point deFond, out of soundings.
Fondd’aiguilles, a bottom or ground abounding with pointed shells.
Fond-haut, ou haut-Fond, a shoal or high ground, or sand bank.
Fondd’un basse voile, the foot of a lower sail.
PrendreFond,toucher, relacher, to anchor or touch at a place in passing.
Aller àFond, to sink, to go to the bottom.
Plat-Fondd’un vaisseau, the floor or bottom of a ship.
FOQUEde beaupré, the jib, or flying-jib. SeeFoc.
FORBAN, a pirate. SeePirate.
FORCEde voiles,fairForcede voiles, to make sail, to croud sail.
FORCERde rames,faireForcede rames, to row strongly, so as to redouble the efforts of the oars.
Forcerdes voiles, to croud sail, to carry a press of sail.
FOURCHETTE, a pair of sheers, or machine to mast or dismast a ship.
FORME, a wet dock.
Formeen talud, a slip, or declivity on the banks of a river, where ships are built.
FORMESde vaisseaux. SeeBaloires.
FORTde virer, a term amongst the French common sailors, which answers to, avast-heaving.
FORTUNEde mer, the accidents or disasters of the sea, occasioned by pirates, shallows, &c.
Fortunede vent, a tempest or violent storm, in the dialect of Provence.
Voile deFortune, the square or lug-sail of a galley or tartane, in the Mediterranean. SeeTreou.
FOSSE, a creek or small haven on the sea-coast, where ships may come to anchor.
Fosseis also a place out of soundings on the edge of a bank.
Fosseau lion, the boatswain’s store room, in the fore part of a ship.
Fosseaux cables, the cable stage, or cable tier, in the orlop, &c.
Fosseaux mâts, a place where the masts are kept afloat in salt water, in a dock-yard.
FOUETTER, to strike or slap back against the mast; expressed of the sails of a ship, when they are first taken aback.
FOUGON, the cobose, grate, or fire-place of a ship, in the language of Provence.
FOUGUE,mât deFougue,ou à foule, the mizen-mast.
Vergue deFougue,ou foule, the cross jack-yard.
Fougue, orperroquet de Fougue, the mizen-top-sail.
FOULOIR, an instrument which serves as a rammer and spunge of a cannon.
FOUR, a sort of breast-hook or knee, used to strengthen the bows of a boat.
FOURCATS, the crotches, placed in the after and fore hold, as floor-timbers.
FOURCHEde potence de pompe, the ears of a pump.
FOURCHESde carene, breaming-hooks, or forks used to hold the flaming furze or faggots to a ship’s bottom when graving.
FOURRER, to serve the cables, as with rounding, keckling, plat, &c.
FOURRURE, a general name for service of leather, plat, canvas, or ropes.
FOYER, a light-house, a light or fire on the sea coast, to direct shipping in the night. SeePhare.
FRAICHEUR, a fresh wind or steddy breeze.
FRAICHIR, to freshen, or blow stronger; expressed of an increasing gale.
FRAIS, a light or small breeze.
FRANCd’eau, pumped out, or free of water.
Rendre le navireFrancd’eau, to pump the water out from a ship’s bottom; to free her by the pump.
FRANC-funin, a white hauser or large untarred rope, used for several purposes.
FRANCHE-bouline, upon a bowline, upon a wind, close hauled.
FRANCHIRla lame, to head the sea, to sail against the setting of the sea.
Franchirl’eau. SeeRendre le navireFranc, &c.
Franchirune roche, to pass over or forge off from a rock, after having struck, touched, or rested upon it.
FRAPPER, to fix on, or set up the standing-rigging: also to make fast, when expressed oflargeropes; asamarrer, to belay, is used in the same sense forsmallerones.
FRÉGATE, a frigate of war.[60]
Frégated’avis, a sloop of war, packet-boat, or tender.
Frégatelégere, a light or small frigate, carrying from 30 to 20 guns.
Fregaté,frigate built, or formed with a deep waist.
FREGATON, a sort of Venetian ketch,
FREINS. SeeRefreins.
FRELER, to furl, or hand the sail. SeeFerler.
FREQUENTERun port, to trade often to one harbour.
FRET, the freight or hire of a ship; called alsofretement.
FRETER, to freight or hire a ship.
FRETEUR, the proprietor or owner of a ship, to whom the freight for the merchandize is paid.
FRIBSUTIER. SeeFlibustiers.
FRISERles sabords, to line the gun-ports with bays or kersey, to prevent the water from entering at sea.
FRISONS, cans or jugs.
FRONTEAU, the breast-work, a moulding ornamented with sculpture, and sometimes a sort of balustrade, reaching athwart the ship from one side to the other, and serving to terminate the quarter-deck and poop at the fore-end, and the fore-castle both afore and abaft.
FRONTON. SeeMiroir.
FUNERun mât, to fix the standing-rigging on the mast-head.
FUNIN, cordage of a certain size, which is particularly used for the running-ropes, and sometimes for the standing-rigging. SeeFranc-funin.
FURIN, the offing, the high sea, deep water; as,Mettre un vaisseau enFurin, to carry or conduct a ship out to sea, or over the bar, &c. of a harbour into deep water.
FUSEAUX, orTaquetsde cabestan. SeeTaquets.
FUSÉEdans un brulot, the pipe or channel of the train in a fire-ship.
Fuséed’aviron, a mouse on the middle of an oar, to confine it in the strop or grommet.
Fuséede vindas, ou de cabestan volant, the main-piece or body of the windlass, into which the handspecks are put.
FUSÉESde tournevire, the mouses of the viol.
FUSTE, a low and capacious vessel navigated with sails and oars.
FUTde girouette, the vane-stock.
FUTAILLE, the water and provision-casks of a ship.
GABARE,Gabarre, a sort of flat-bottomed lighter or barge, used in the river Loire, to lade and unlade shipping.
GABARIER, a lighter-man, or the person who conducts thegabare.
GABARI, a sort of model to represent the outline and thickness of the frames of a ship’s timbers. SeeCouple.
PremierGabari, or rathermaîtreGabari, the midship-frame.
GABARISde l’arriere, the after-frames.
Gabarisde l’avant, the fore-timbers or frames.
GABIE, the top, in the dialect of Provence.
GABIER, the captain of the main, or fore-top.
GABORD, the garboard-streak, or plank next to the keel in a ship’s bottom.
GABURONS. SeeJumelles.
GACHER, to row, or advance a boat with oars.
GAFFE, a boat-hook. SeeCroc.
GAFFER, to hook and draw any thing near with a boat-hook.
GAGNERle vent, orGagnerau vent, &c.to gain the wind of, to get to windward of. SeeAvantagedu vent.
Gagnersur un vaisseau, to fore-reach or gain upon; to gain ground of some ship in company.
Gagnerun port, un havre, un degré de latitude, to secure a harbour, or arrive at a rendezvous without interruption.
GAILLARD, orChateau, the elevation of the quarter-deck and fore-castle.
GAILLARDELETTE, orGalan, the flag of the fore-mast.
GAILLARDET, a sort of broad pendant displayed at the fore-mast-head.
GAINEde flamme, the canvas edging fixed on the head of a pendant, to contain the stock.
GALAUBANS, the back-stays of the top-masts and top-gallant-masts.
GALÉACE, orGaléace, a galléasse, or great galley of Venice.
GALERE, a row-galley.
Galerepatrone, the second of the galleys of France, Tuscany, and Malta.
GALERIE, the gallery or balcony of a ship’s stern, or quarter.
GALERIESdu fond de cale, certain passages formed close to the cieling in the hold of a ship of war, for the discovery of leaks. SeeAccoursie.
FausseGaleries, the badges of the quarters in a small ship.
GALERNE, a north-west wind.
GALET, a sea-coast abounding with flints.
GALETTE, round and flat sea-biscuit.
GALION, a galleon, or Spanish ship of war of the Indian fleet.
GALIOTE, a half galley; also a Dutch fishing vessel.
Galioteà bombes, a bomb-ketch.
Galioteservant de yacht d’avis, a packet, or advice-boat.
GALOCHE, a snatch-block; also a hole made in the coamings of a hatchway, for the cable to rest when the hatches are laid.
Galochelikewise implies the stock or frame into which the feet of the sheet-kevels are fixed by the ship’s side.
GAMBESde hune, the futtock-shrouds.
GAMELLE, a bowl or platter to hold the sailors victuals; also a mess or company of them who eat together.
Etre à laGamelle. SeeEtre, &c.
GANTERIAS. SeeBarresde hune.
GARANT, a tackle-fall, or the part upon which they pull in hoisting, &c.
GARBIN, the south-west wind, in the dialect of Provence.
GARCETTES, a general name for all sorts of platted cordage; as,
Maîtresse-Garcette, the bunt-gasket, or middle-gasket of a yard.
Garcettesde bonnettes, the keys or buttons of the bonnets.
Garcettesde fourrures de cables, plat for serving the cables.
Garcettesde ris, the reef-points of a sail.
Garcettesde tournevire, the nippers of the cable, by which it is attached to the viol.
Garcettesde voiles, the gaskets which serve to furl the sails.
GARCONSde bord, the ordinary seamen in a ship of war or merchantman.
GARDES, orQuart, the watch.
GARDEau mât, a person who looks out at the mast-head.
Garde-corps, the side, or quarter-nettings of a ship.
Garde-côte, a ship of war which cruises on the coast of a nation, to protect it from the insults of the enemy or pirates.
Gardedes côtes, a military guard, employed to defend the coasts in time of war.
Garde-feux, powder-chests, or cartridge-chests.
Gardede la marine, a midshipman, or naval cadet.
Garde-magasin, an officer similar to the store-keeper of a dock-yard.
GARDE-ménagerie, a ship’s poulterer, a person who takes care of the beasts, fowls, &c. in a ship.
GARDERun vaisseau, to dog, pursue, or watch the motion of an enemy’s ship, so as to prevent her from escaping: also to guard and protect a ship.
GARDIENde la fosse à lion, the boatswain’s yeoman.
GARDIENNERIE, orChambredes canoniers, the gun-room. SeeSainte-Barbe.
GARDIENS,matelots-Gardiens, the ordinary men of a dock-yard, under the command of the master attendant.
GARES, certain small docks or retreats, formed on the side of a narrow canal, to contain boats, that others may pass the more easily.
GARGOUSSE, orGargouche, the cartridge of a cannon or other fire-arm.
GARGOUSSIERES, a cartridge-box, or cartouch-box, for small arms.
GARITTES, the top-brims, or top-rims.
GARNIR, or ratherGréer. SeeGréer.
Garnirle cabestan, to rig the capstern, by fixing the viols, bars, pins, and swifter, to be ready for heaving.
GARNITURE, the standing, and running-rigging of a ship, together with the services of the yards.
GATTE, the manger of a ship.
GAVITEAU, a buoy, in the dialect of Provence. SeeBouée.
GENOUde la rame, the loom of an oar.
GENOUXde fond, the lower futtocks of the timbers.
Genouxde porques, the lower futtock-riders.
GENSde l’équipage. SeeEquipage.
Gensde mer, a general name for mariners.
Gensdu munitionnaire, the steward’s crew or assistants.
GERSEAU, a block-strop. SeeEstrope.
GIBELOT, the standard which fastens the cut-water to the stem; called also, and more properly,Courbecapucine.
GINDANT. SeeGuindant.
GIROUETTES, vanes of the mast-head.
Girouettesquarées, very broad vanes.
GISSEMENT, the bearings of coasts or latitudes, with respect to each other, or to some distant object.
GIST. See the preceding article.
GLAÇONS, orbancs de glace, flakes, or islands of ice.
GOLFE, a gulf of the sea, as of Mexico, of Lyons, &c.
GONDS, the gudgeons by which the rudder is hung to the stern-post. SeeFerrurede gouvernail.
GONDOLE, a gondola of Venice.
GONDOLIERS, the master and crew of a gondola.
GONNE, a sea-cask somewhat larger than a barrel.
GORET,Gorret, a hog, or large brush to scrub the ship’s bottom under water.
GORETER, to hog a vessel, to apply the hog.
GORGERE,ouTaillemer, the foremost and lowest part of the cut-water, or knee of the head.
GOUDRON, orGoudran, tar.
GOUDRONNER, to tar a ship, or pay her sides with tar.
GOUFFRE, a gulf, race, or whirlpool; as the race of Portland, &c.
GOUJURE, the notch or channel cut round the outside of a block or dead-eye, to receive the strop or rope which is fixed therein.
Goujurede chouquet, the hole on a cap, through which the haliards of a sail is sometimes reeved.
GOULET, the strait entrance of a harbour.
GOUPILLE, the forelock of a bolt. SeeClavette.
GOURDIN, a cobbing-board, used to punish the slaves in the gallies.
GOURMETTE, a ship-boy, servant, or apprentice, in the dialect of Provence; also a watchman appointed by the merchants to take care of the goods in a lighter till they are shipped or landed.
GOURNABLES, tree-nails.
GOURNABLERun vaisseau, todrive the tree-nails into a ship’s sides.
GOUTIERE, orTire-point, the water ways of the decks.
GOUVERNAIL, the helm or rudder of a ship.
GOUVERNEou tu as le cap, ou à tel air de vent, thus boy, thus! or, steddy as you go! the order to steer the ship exactly as she stems, or carries her head.
GOUVERNEMENT, the navigation or steerage of a ship.
GOUVERNER, to steer a ship or boat.
Gouvernerau nord, to steer northward.
Gouverneur,ouTimonnier, the helmsman, the steersman.
GRAINde vent, a sudden squall of wind or rain, or of both.
Grainpesant, a heavy or violent squall.
GRANDmât, the main-mast of a ship or boat.
GRAPPIN, a grappling or grapnel.
Grappinà main, ouGrappind’abordage, a fire-grappling, or grappling of the yard-arm.
GRAPPINER, to warp a vessel towards a flake of ice, by grapplings and ropes.
GRASde mer, discoloured water at the mouth of a river, &c.
GRASSE-bouline. SeeBouline.
GRATTERun vaisseau, to scrape a ship; whence,
GRATOIR, a scraper.
GRAVE, a platform of flints, &c. whereon to dry fish in Newfoundland.
GRÉEMENT, a general name for the rigging, comprehending also the masts, yards, and the sails when they are bent.
GRÉER, to rig a ship, or fit her with rigging, blocks, yards, sails, &c.
GRELIN, a hauser, or stream-cable.
GRENADEà main, a grenade of iron or glass.
GRENIER, the floor-cieling of a ship, or a cieling which reaches only from the kelson to the floor-heads.
Charger enGrenier. SeeCharger,&c.
GREVE, a flat, low, and sandy shore.
GRIBANE, a small vessel navigated on the coast of Normandy, and carrying a main-mast and fore-mast, without any tops.