POINTAGEde la carte, the pricking of a course and distance upon the chart, to discover the ship’s place.
POINTE, a point of land projecting into the sea; a low-cape, or promontory.
Pointede l’éperon, the beak of a prow, or cut-water.
Pointedu compas, a point of the magnetical compass.
Pointedu nord, ou du sud, &c.the north or south point.
POINTER, to direct or point a gun to its object.
Pointerà couler bas, to point a gun so as to sink a ship.
Pointerà démater, to point a gun so as to dismast a ship.
Pointerà donner dans le bois, to level the cannon so as to hull a ship, or strike the hull.
Pointerla carte, to prick the chart. SeePointage.
POINTURE, the balance of a sail, or that part which is fastened by balancing it in a storm; as the peek of the mizen, &c.
POITRINEde gabords, the filling, or convexity of a ship’s bottom, as approaching the mid-ships from the stem and stern-post.
POLACRE, a polacre, or ship so called.
Policed’assurance, a policy of insurance.
Policede chargement. SeeConnoissement.
POMMES, the trucks, or acorns placed on the flag-staffs, or spindles of the mast-head.
Pommesde girouettes, the acorns placed over the vanes.
Pommesde raque, orde racage, seeRaque.
POMMEde pavillon, the truck placed on the top of the flag-staff, or ensign-staff.
POMOYER, to under-run a cable with the long-boat.
POMPE, the pump of a ship.
Affranchir, ou franchir laPompe, to free the ship, by discharging more water with the pumps than has entered by the leaks. SeeAffranchir.
A laPompe, pump ship! the order to pump out the water from a ship’s bottom.
Charger laPompe, to fetch the pump.
Etre à une, ou à deuxPompes, to have one or both pumps constantly employed to free the ship.
LaPompeest engorgée, the pump is choaked or foul.
LaPompeest éventée, the pump blows, or is split so as to be rendered unserviceable.
LaPompeest haute, ou laPompeest franche, the pump sucks, or is dry.
LaPompeest prise, the pump is fetched.
LaPompese décharge, the pump has lost water. SeeDécharge.
Pompeà la Vénitienne, a Venetian pump.
Pompede mer. SeeTrompe.
POMPE-en bon etat,Pompelibre, a good pump, or pump in good trim.
Pompesà roue & à chaines, chain pumps.
Pompesdu maître-valet, hand-pumps, used for water casks, oil-casks, wine-casks, &c.
PONENT, the west, in the language of Provence: also a name given to the Western Ocean.
PONT, the deck of a ship.
Pontà caillebotis, ou à treilles, a grating-deck.
Pontcoupé, a deck open in the middle, as in some small vessels that have only part of a deck towards the stem and stern.
Pontcourant devant arriere, a deck flush fore and aft.
Pontde cordes, a sort of netting to cover a ship’s waist, and prevent the impression of boarders.
Pontvolant, a spar-deck, or platform.
Faux-Pont, the orlop deck.
Premier-Pont, orfranc-tillac, the lower, or gun-deck.
SecondPont, the middle-deck of a ship with three decks, or the upper deck of one with two decks.
Troisieme-Pont, the upper-deck of a ship with three decks.
PONTÉ, decked, or furnished with a deck; as opposed to undecked or open.
PONTON, a pontoon, for careening or delivering ships; also a sort of bridge of boats, composed of two punts, with planks laid between them; likewise a ferry-boat.
PONTONAGE, the hire of a ferry-boat or ponton.
PONTONNIER, the master of a ponton, or lighterman.
PORQUES, riders.
Porquesacculées, the after floor-riders.
Porquesde fond, floor-riders.
Allonges dePorques, futtock-riders.
PORT, a haven, port, or harbour.
Port-brute, ou havre brute, a natural harbour, or port formed by nature.
Portde vaisseau, the burthen or tonnage of a ship.
PORTde barre, an harbour with a bar, that can only be passed at, or near high-water.
Portd’entrée, orPortede tout marée. SeeHavre.
Avoir unPortsous le vent, to have a harbour to leeward, or under the lee.
Fermer lePorts,ouPortsfermés, to lay an embargo upon all the shipping of a harbour. SeeArret.
PORTAGE, the space or room in a ship’s hold allowed to any officer, &c. to contain his venture, or private trade.
PORTE-bossoir. SeeSou-barbe.
Ported’écluse, the flood-gates of a sluice.
Portegargousse. SeeLanterneà gargousse.
Porte-haubans, ou ecotards, the channels, or chain-wales of a ship.
PORTELOTS, the thick stuff which encircles the side of a lighter under the gunnel.
Porte-plein les voiles, or simply,Porte-plein! keep full! the order to the man who steers, to keep the sails full, and prevent them from shivering in the wind.
Porte-vergues, or ratherherpes, the rails of the head, reaching from the cat-head towards the cut-water. SeeHerpes.
Porte-voix, a speaking-trumpet.
PORTER, to sail, or conduit a ship.
Porterà route, to stand onward, upon the course.
Porterau sûd, &c.to stand to the southward, &c.
PORTEREAU, the flood-gate of a sluice.
POSTE, the quarters where the men are stationed in time of battle.
POSTILLON, an express-boat, or post-boat.
POTà brai, a pitch-pot.
Pot-à-feu, a fire-pot, or stink-pot.
Potde pompe, the lower pump-box. See alsoChopinette.
POTENCEde brinquebale, the cheeks of the pump.
POUDRIER, an half-hour watch-glass.
POUGER, ormoler en pouppe, to bear up, in the dialect of Provence.
POULAINE,eperon, the knee of the head, or cutwater.
POULAINES, the props which support a ship’s stem, when she is on the stocks.
POULIE, a block of any kind to reeve a running rope through.
Pouliecoupée, orà dents, a snatch block. See alsoGaloche.
Pouliedétropée, a block shaken out of its strop.
Pouliede grand drisse, one of the main jear blocks.
Pouliede guinderesse, a top-block.
Pouliede palan, a tackle-block.
Poulied’itague du grand hunier, the main-top-sail tye-block.
Pouliedouble, a double block.
Pouliesimple, a single block.
POULIESde caliornes, winding tackle-blocks, or blocks furnished with three sheaves.
Pouliesde drisse de misaine, the fore jear-blocks.
Pouliesd’écoutes de hune, top-sail-sheet-blocks, fitted also to contain the lower-lifts.
Pouliesde retour d’écoutes de hune, the quarter-blocks for the top-sail sheets.
POUPPE, the after-parts of a ship, both above and below. SeeArcasse,Arriere,Dunette, &c.
Vaisseau àPouppequarrée, a square-sterned ship; such as are all ships of war.
Mettre vent enPouppe, to bear away before the wind.
Mouiller enPouppe, to moor by the stern, or get out an anchor a-stern.
Vent enPouppe, a stern-wind, or wind right aft.
POUSSE-barre! heave chearly! heave heartily! the order or exhortation to those who heave at the capstern, to push forcibly on the bars.
Pousse-pied, orAccon, a small boat used to catch shell-fish, &c. SeeAccon.
PRAME, a pram, lighter, or barge of burden.
PRATIQUE, in a naval sense, implies free intercourse or communication with the natives of a country, after having performed quarantine.
PRÉCEINTES, the wales of a ship.
PRÉLART, orPrélat, a tarpauling.
PRENDREchasse. SeeChasser.
Prendrehauteur, to take the altitude of the sun, or a star. SeeHauteur.
Prendreles amures, to get aboard the tacks. SeeAmurer.
Prendreterre. SeeTerre& terrir.
Prendrevent devant, to be taken with the wind a-head.
Prendreun bosse, to make sail, or clap on the stopper.
Prendreun ris, to take in a reef.
PRENEUR,vaisseauPreneur, the vessel that has taken a prize.
PRES &plein, full and by! the order to the steersman to keep the ship close to the wind, without shaking.
PRESENTERle grande bouline, to snatch the main-bowline, or put it into the snatch-block.
Presenterau vent, to sail as the ship stems, without making lee-way.
PRESSER, to press, or constrain into small compass; as cotton, wool, or such like material.
PRETERle coté, to range abreast of a ship, in order to give her the broadside. SeeEffacer.
PREVOTgénéral de la marine, a provost marshal of the marine, or officer whose duty resembles that of the judge-advocate of naval courts-martial.
Prevotmarinier, the swabber of a ship, who also chastises the criminals, as being usually the most abandoned of the crew: this part of his duty is performed in English ships by the boatswain.
PRIMEd’assurance, insurance paid by the merchant for insuring the ship’s cargo.
PRISE, a prize, or ship taken from the enemy at sea.
PROFIT,avantureux, the interest acquired by bottomry. SeeBomerie.
PROFONTIÉ, a ship that draws much water, or takes a large volume of water to float her.
PROLONGERun navire, to lay a ship along-side of some other.
PROMONTOIRE, a cape, head-land, or fore-land.
PROUE, the prow of a ship, seeAvant.
Donner laProue, to appoint the course, or rendezvous of the gallies.
PROVISIONS, a general name for the provisions, and the warlike stores, or ammunition of a ship.
PUCHOT. SeeTrompe.
PUISER, to leak, or make water at sea.
Puiserpour le bord, to ship seas, or take in water, either over the gunnel, or at the ports in the side.
PUITS. SeeArchipompe.
PUY, a great depth of the sea on a level bottom.
QUAI, a wharf or key on the side of a harbour or river.
Amarré àQuai,rangé àQuai, moored along-side of the key or wharf.
QUAIAGE, wharfage.
QUAICHE, a ketch, or ship so called.
QUARANTAINE, quarantine.
FaireQuarantaine, to perform quarantine.
QUARANTENIER, a rope of the size of a rattling-line, used as a lashing, &c.
QUARRÉde reduction, seeQuartierde reduction.
Quarrénaval, the naval square, a scheme drawn on a ship’s quarter-deck, to represent the division of a fleet into three columns, and exhibit the station of each particular ship in the order of sailing; it is used to direct and regulate the movements of each ship with regard to the rest, and preserve the whole fleet in uniformity.
QUARTde rond,saloire,tamisaille, the transom, upon which the tiller traverses in the gun-room. SeeTraverse.
Quart, the watch kept aboard ship, comprehending the time of its continuance, and the people employed to keep it.
Quartbon, orbonQuart, keep a good look out afore! look well out afore there!
Quartdu jour, the day-watch.
Prendre leQuart, to set the watch.
AuQuart,auQuart! the watch, hoay! the starboard watch, hoay! the manner of calling the watch to relief.
Faire bonQuartsur la hune, to keep a good look-out in the tops.
Le premierQuart, orQuartde tribord, the starboard-watch. SeeTribordais.
SecondQuart, orQuartde bas-bord, the larboard-watch. SeeBasbordais.
QUARTSde vent, the quarter-points of the compass, or those which lie on each side of the cardinal and intermediate points, and are distinguished in English by the wordby; as N by E, N E by N, &c.
QUARTIERAnglois, orQuartde nonante, a Davies’s quadrant.
Quartierde reduction, a sinical quadrant, used by the French pilots in working their days works, to discover the ship’s place.
Quartier-maître, an officer resembling the boatswain’s mate of an English ship.
Vent deQuartier,ou vent largue, a large, or quartering wind.
QUERAT, the planks of a ship’s bottom, comprehended between the keel and the wales.
QUETE, the rake of a ship abaft, or the rake of the stern-post.
QUEUEd’une armée navale, the rear of a fleet of ships of war.
Queuede rat, tapering to the end; expressed of such ropes as are pointed, or tapering towards the end, as the tacks, &c.
QUILLE, the keel of a ship.
Quille-fausse. SeeFausse-quille.
QUINTAL, an hundred weight.
RABANER, to fit a sail with rope-bands and earings, ready for bending to its yard.
RABANS, a general name given to earings, gaskets, knittles, and rope-bands.
Rabansd’avuste, a sort of braided knittles, like those formed to point a rope.
Rabansde ferlage, the gaskets employed to furl the sails to their yards.
Rabansde pavillon, the rope-band of a flag or ensign.
Rabansde pointure, the head-earings, or reef-earings of a sail.
Rabansde têtiere, the rope-bands of any sail.
RABATTUES, the intervals between the drift-rails of a ship; this term is peculiar to ship-wrights.
RABLES, the floor-timbers of a boat.
RABLURE, the rabbit or channel cut in the keel, stem, and stern-post, to receive the edges of the garboard-streaks, and the ends of the planks afore and abaft.
RACAGE, a parrel with ribs and trucks.
RACAMBEAU, a traveller, or small iron ring, which sometimes encircles the mast of a long-boat, serving as a parrel to the yard or gaff.
RACCOMMODER, to repair or refit a ship’s rigging. SeeRadouber.
RACHEde goudron, the dregs of bad tar.
RACLE, orGratoir, a scraper, used to clean a ship’s side, deck, or bottom.
Racle-double, a two-edged, or double scraper.
Racle-grande, a large scraper, used to clean the ship’s bottom under water.
Racle-petite, orpetitRacle, a small scraper, employed to scrape the planks, &c. above the water.
RACLER, to scrape the sides, &c. of a ship.
RADE, a road, or road-stead.
Radeforaine, a free road, or road where ships of all nations are permitted to anchor.
RADEAU, a raft.
RADER, to arrive in a road.
RADOUB, the repair of a ship in a dock-yard, &c. or the employment of the artificers to close the breaches in her hull with planks, timber, or sheet-lead; as also to stop the leaks by calking, and pay the bottom with stuff.
RADOUBER, to repair a ship, or give her a repair.
RAFFALES, orRaffals, sudden and violent squalls of wind.
RAFRAICHIRle canon, to cool or refresh a cannon in battle, as with a wet-spunge, sometimes dipped in vinegar.
Rafraichirla fourrure, to freshen the hause.
Le vent seRafraichir, the wind freshens, or increases.
RAFRAICHISSEMENT, a supply of fresh provisions of all species.
RAISONNERà la patache, orà la chaloupe, to render an account of a voyage to a visiting boat, when arrived near any port, in order to obtain permission to enter the harbour.
RALINGUER,Mettre enRalingue, ortenir enRalingue, to shiver a sail in the wind. SeeFasier.
RALINGUES, the bolt-ropes of a sail.
Mets enRalingue, orfaisRalinguer! luff her up in the wind, shake her up in the wind, let the sails touch! the order to the helmsman to steer the ship so as to let the sails shake with their edges to the wind.
RALLIERun navire au vent, to bring a ship to the wind after having yawed to leeward.
SeRallier, to approach any object at sea.
RAMBADES, two posts or platforms in the fore-part of a galley, whereon the musketeers stand to fire.
RAMBERGE, a sort of packet-boat, advice-boat, or tender.
RAME, an oar.
Plat, orpale de laRame, the blade, or wash of an oar.
RAMER. SeeNager.
RAMEUR, a rower.
RANG, the rate of ships of war. As the division of the French navy into classes or orders differs from the arrangement of the English fleet, it appears necessary to mark that difference in this place.
The principal French ships of war are divided into three rates, each of which is subdivided into two orders. All the inferior ships, which are not comprehended in those rates and orders, are called frégates andcorvettes. SeeFrégate, &c.
A ship of the first order, of the first rate, carries from 110 to 120 guns.
Ships of the second order, of the first rate, carry from 110 to 90 guns.
Ships of the first order, of the second rate, carry from 90 to 74 guns upon three decks.
Ships of the second order, of the second rate, carry from 74 to 60 guns upon two decks, with the quarter-deck and fore-castle.
Ships of the first order, of the third rate, carry from 60 to 50 guns upon two decks, &c.
Ships of the second order, of the third rate, which are now generally calledfrégates, carry from 50 to 46 guns upon two decks, &c.
Thefrégatesfrom 46 to 32 guns, have sometimes two tiers of cannon complete; but all those from 36 to 20, have in general but one tier of cannon, the rest being carried on the quarter-deck and fore-castle.
Rangde rameurs, a bank of rowers, or bank of oars.
RANGERla côte, orRangerla terre, to coast, or range along-shore.
Rangerle vent, to claw the wind, or haul close to the wind.
Le vent seRangede l’avant, the wind hauls forward; the wind heads us, or takes us a-head.
RANGUE! stretch along, or, clap on here many hands! the order to the sailors to range themselves along, to haul upon any rope, tackle, &c.
RAPIDE, a fresh in a river.
RAQUE, a general name for trucks, but particularly the trucks of a parrel. See alsoPomme deRacage.
Raquede haubans, a truck lashed to the shrouds, through which a running rope is reeved.
Raqueencouchée, a truck encircled with a notch, to receive the spun-yarn by which it fastened to a shroud, stay, or back-stay.
Raquegougée, a truck hollowed on one side, so as to enclose the rope to which it is fastened.
Raqué, chafed, or rubbed, expressed of a cable, or other rope, which is galled on the outside for want of service.
RAQUER, to fret, chafe, or rub.
RARRIVÉE, the movement of coming to, after having fallen off, when a ship is lying-by or trying.
RAS, a small vessel or boat without a deck.
Rasà l’eau, a low-built vessel, or one which carries her guns very little above the surface of the water.
Rasde courant. SeeRat.
RASE, a composition of pitch and tar, used to pay a ship’s seams.
RASERun vaisseau, to cut down a ship, or take off part of her upper-works, as the poop, quarter-deck, or fore-castle, in order to lighten her, when she becomes weak.
RASTEAU, orRatelier, the rack or range of blocks sometimes placed on each side of the gammoning of a ship’s bowsprit.
RASTEAUX, orRateaux, the cleats nailed on the middle of a yard, to confine the parrels, and tye, or jear-blocks, &c.
Rasteaux, orRateliers à chevillots, ranges, or cross-pieces, fastened to the shrouds, or otherwise, in which pins are fixed to belay the running-rigging.
Rat, a shipwright’s floating stage, used for repairing or calking a ship’s bottom, &c.
Rat, orRas, a race, or dangerous whirlpool; as the Race of Portland, &c.
Rat.SeeCouetà queue de rat.
RATION, the allowance of bread, flesh, wine, pulse, &c. distributed to the different messes in a ship.
Rationdouble, a double allowance, given on any particular occasion of rejoicing.
Rationet demie, the allowance of a sea-officer in the French fleet.
RAVALEMENT, a platform on the poop of some ships, where the marines stand to discharge their small-arms.
REALE, the royal-galley, a name given to the principal galley of a kingdom. SeeGalereréale.
REBANDER, a phrase amongst the common sailors, signifying to carry over to the other side of the ship.
Rebanderà l’autre bord, to stand upon the other tack, to steer a different course.
REBORDER, to fall aboard or along-side of a ship a second time.
RECHANGE, a general name for the stores of a ship; or the spare rigging, sails, &c. which are in reserve to supply the place of what may be lost or disabled.
RECLAMPER, to fish a mast or yard when it happens to be sprung.
RECONNOITREun vaisseau, to approach a ship, in order to discover her strength, and of what nation she is.
Reconnoitreune terre, to survey or observe the situation of a coast attentively.
RECOURIRles coutures, to run over the seams of a ship in calking; to calk them lightly and expeditiously.
Recourirsur une manœuvre, to under-run a rope or cable.
FaireRecourirl’ecoute,la bouline,le couet de revers, to haul in the slack of the lee-tack or bowline, or of the weather-sheet.
RECOUVRE! rouse-in, or haul aboard!
RECOUVRER, to rouse-in, or haul any rope into the ship, when it hangs slack in the water, or otherwise.
RECOUX. SeeReprise.
RECULdu canon, the recoil of a cannon.
REFAIT, squared, or prepared for use; expressed of a piece of timber hewn to its proper form and size.
REFLUXde la mer, the ebb-tide. SeeFlux.
REFOULER, to stem the tide, or to sail against it.
La merREFOULE, the tide ebbs; the water falls.
REFOULOIR, the rammer of a great gun, called alsoFouloir.
Refouloirde cordes, a rope rammer.
SeREFRANCHIR, to be freed by the pumps, or to have the quantity of water in a ship’s hold diminished by pumping.
REFREIN, the repetition of the dashing and breaking against rocks, &c. expressed of the waves upon a sea-shore.
REFUSER, to fall off again, when in stays; expressed of a ship that will not go about, or stay; as,
Le vaisseau aREFUSÉ, the ship will not come to the wind, or will not stay.
REGATES, a course or race of boats in the great canal of Venice.
RELACHER, to bear away for, or put into a harbour, under the lee.
RELACHE, the harbour where a ship has taken refuge or shelter, as from a contrary wind.
RELAIS. SeeLaisses.
RELEVEMENT, the sheer of a ship’s deck, or the rising of the deck afore and abaft.
RELEVER, to put a ship afloat, after she had lain a-ground for some time; also to right a ship after she had lain upon a careen.
Releverl’ancre, to weigh the anchor again, and change its situation.
Releverle quart, orle timonnier, to relieve the steersman or the watch.
Releverles branles, to lash up the hammocks, in order to make a clear passage between-decks.
Releverun côte, to draw the plan or chart of a coast.
Releverun vaisseau, to steer by the compass, or shape the course by the compass.
REMÉDIERà des voies d’eau, to stop or stanch the leaks.
REMOLE, a dangerous whirlpool.
REMONTER, to sail up a river, as from the sea.
REMORQUER, to tow a ship by a boat, or other vessel with oars.
REMOULAT, a person who has charge of the oars in a row-galley.
REMOUX, the eddy, or dead water, left behind a ship’s stern when she is under sail.
RENARD, a sort of handspike, or lever, with an iron claw, used to remove large pieces of timber in a dock-yard, &c.
Renardis also a traverse-board.
RENCONTRE! shift the helm, or shift over the helm! the order to the steersman, to meet the ship, right the helm, or put it towards the side opposite to where it was before, in order to check the ship’s sheer.
RENDEZ-VOUS, the rendezvous, or place of destination of a fleet of ships.
RENDREle bord, to anchor, or come to an anchor in some road or harbour.
RENTRÉE. SeeRetrecissement.
RENVERSEMENT, the shifting a cargo from one ship to another.
Charger parRenversement, to change or remove the cargo out of one ship into some other.
REPOUSSOIR, a driving-bolt, used by ship-wrights to knock out another from its station.
REPRENDREune manœuvre, to sheep-shank, or shorten a rope.
REPRISE, a retaken ship.
RÉSINE, resin, used in paying a ship’s bottom or sides.
RESSAC, the shock or breaking of a wave upon the shore, and its retreat into the sea.
RESSIF, orRecif, a reef, or ridge of rocks under water.
RESTAUR, the restoration, or loss made good by an insurer.
RESTER, to bear upon any point of the compass; as,un vaisseau nousResteau sud, a ship bears south of us, &c.
RETENUE, fastened, or hardened home in its place; expressed of a piece of timber in ship-building; as,
Piece de bois qui a saRetenue, a piece of wood which is firmly wedged into its place, as by rabbiting, tenanting, &c.
Corde deRetenue, a tackle-fall. See alsoCordde retenue &Attrape.
RETORSOIR, a spun-yarn winch. SeeMoulinet.
RETOURde marée, the turn of the tide, or the beginning of the ebb.
RETRAITEde pirates, a nest of pirates, a harbour of free-booters.
RETRAITESde hune, orcargues de hune, the clue-lines, bunt-lines, and reef-tackles of the top-sails.
RETRANCHEMENT, a temporary or occasional apartment formed in a ship, besides her ordinary cabins.
RÉTRECISSEMENTSdes gabaris, the tumbling-home of the top-timbers, where a ship grows narrower above her breadth. SeeRevers.
REVENTER, to fill the sails again; to brace about, and fill.
REVERS, a general name for those pieces of timber whose convexity lies inward in a ship’s bottom or sides; as,
Allonges deRevers, the top timbers.
Genoux deRevers, the lower futtocks in the fore and after parts of the ship.
Manœuvres deRevers, the ropes which are out of use while they lie on the lee-side, as the lee-bowline, lee-tacks, &c.
REVIREMENT, the act of going about, by tacking or veering.
Revirementpar la tête, ou par la queue, to tack a fleet or squadron of ships of war by the van or rear, so that the foremost ships or the aftmost ships go about first, to preserve the order of the line.
REVIRER, to put about; to change the course of a ship.
Revirerdans l’eaux d’un navire, to tack in a ship’s wake, and stand on the same course, a-stern of her.
REVOLIN, a sudden gust of wind, which blows off the shore, as by rebound from the adjacent hills.
RIBORD, the second plank, or streak of planks, on a ship’s bottom, counting from the keel. SeeGabord.
RIBORDAGE, the damage due from one ship to another which has sustained any hurt from the misconduct or neglect of the former, as established by merchants.
RIDE, a laniard.
RIDER, to haul taught, or pull strait.
Riderla voile. SeeRis.
RIDESde haubans, the laniards of the shrouds.
Ridesd’etai, the laniards of the stays.
LongueRIME, ordonne longueRime! row a long stroke! the order to the rowers to pull with a long sweep.
BonRime! the order to the strokesman of the boat, or he who rows the after oar, to give a good stroke, for the rest to follow.
RINGEOT, orBrion, the fore-foot. SeeBrion.
RIS, the reef of a sail.
Prendre leRis, to reef a sail, or take in a reef.
RISSONS, grapplings, with four claws, used as anchors in a galley.
RIVAGE, the banks of a river, or the sea-shore, upon which the tide ebbs and flows between high and low-water mark.
RIVERun clou, to rivet a nail.
ROCd’issas, orBlocd’assas. SeeSepde drisse.
ROCHER,Roc, orRoche, a rock, or key; a ridge, or reef of rocks in the sea, or on the coast.
ROCHEScachées, lurking rocks, or rocks under water.
RODEde pouppe, &Rodede proue, the stern-post, or stem of a galley.
ROINETTE, a marking-iron, to mark timber, or the casks which are shipped for a voyage.
RONDEUR, the curve, sweep, or compass of a piece of timber used in ship-building.
RONGÉ, worm-eaten; expressed of a ship’s bottom, when it is much injured by the worms in a southern voyage.
ROSEde vents, orRosede compas, the card or face of a sea-compass.
ROSTER, to woold a mast, yard, or boom.
ROSTURES, the wooldings of a mast, &c.
ROUANEde pompe, a great pump-borer; whence,
ROUANERune pompe, to enlarge the bore or channel of a ship’s pump.
ROUCHEd’un vaisseau, the hull of a ship, without masts or rigging.
ROUERune manœuvre, to coil a rope.
Rouerà tour, to coil a rope with the sun, i. e. according to the course of the sun in north-latitude.
Rouerà contre, to coil a rope against the sun.
ROUESd’affut de canon, the trucks of a gun-carriage.
ROUETde poulie, the sheave of a block.
Rouetde poulie de chaloupe, the sheave of a long-boat’s davit; also the sheave on the top of her stern-post, or stem for weighing an anchor.
ROULEAU, a roller, or cylindrical piece of wood placed under any weighty body, in order to move it with greater facility by means of handspikes, &c.
ROULER, to roll tumultuously; expressed of the waves of a swelling sea.
ROULISd’un vaisseau, the rolling motion of a ship. SeeTangage.
ROUTE, the course, or way of a ship; also the place of her destination.
Routefausse, orfausse-route, the errors of a course, or the deviations from the right course, occasioned by the lee-way, drift, currents, chasing, &c.
A laRoute! steer the course! the order to the helmsman to keep the ship steddy in her course.
Porter àRoute, orfaire droitRoute, to make a strait course; to sail onward, without touching at any port in the passage.
ROUTIER, a book, or collection of charts, bearings, distances, soundings, and perspective views of the coasts of any country.
RUBORD, orRibord. SeeRibord.
RUM, orReun. SeeCale.
DonnerRumà une roche. SeeFairehonneur.
RUMBde vent, a point of the compass. SeeAirde vent, &Rosede vents.
SABLE, a watch-glass of any measure of time. See alsoHorloge.
Sablemouvant, a quick-sand or shifting-sand.
SABORD, a gun-port in the ship’s side; whence,
Fermer lesSabords, to let fall, or shut in the port lids.
Faux-Sabord, a false port painted on a ship’s side, and corresponding to a wooden gun, both which are calculated to deceive an enemy in time of war.
SABORDSpour le lest, ballast-ports.
SACHETSde mítrailles, grape-shot, or partridge-shot.
SAFRANde gouvernail, the after-piece of a rudder, used to augment its breadth.
Safrande l’étrave, an additional piece of timber fayed on the fore part of the cutwater, to enlarge it, immediately above the fore-foot, and enable the ship to hold the wind better.
Saille!a manner of shouting amongst the sailors, as a signal to pull or heave all at once.
SAIN, clear, safe, or clean; as,
Côte-Sain, a clean bottom, or clear coast, which has no rocks or sands near it.
SAINTaubinet. SeeSaintAubinet.
SAINTE-barbe, orchambre des canonniers, the gun-room of a vessel of war.
SAIQUE, a sort of Grecian or Turkish ketch.
SAISINE, a seising or lashing of any kind.
Saisinede beaupré, orLiure, the gammoning of the bowsprit. SeeLiure.
SAISER, to seize or fasten any rope with a lashing, &c. SeeAmarrer.
SALE, foul; an epithet given to a coast full of dangerous rocks, shallows, and breakers.
VaisseauxSALES, foul-ships, or shipping with foul bottoms.
SALUER, to salute, or do homage at sea, by offering a salute.
Saluerà boulet, a salute fired with shot, being an homage paid only to the king.
Saluerde la mousqueterie, to salute by firing a volley of small-arms.
Saluerde la voix, to salute with three chears, &c.
Saluerdes voiles, to salute by lowering the sails.
Saluerdu canon, to fire a salute of canon.
Saluerdu pavillon, to salute, by striking or hauling-in the colours.
SALUT, a salute offered at sea by firing guns, &c.
Rendre leSalut, to return the salute.
SAMEQUIN, a sort of Turkish merchant-ship.
SAMOREUX, a very long and flat-bottomed lumber-barge or lighter, for carrying masts and long planks on the Rhine, &c.
Navire qui aSANCIsous ses amarres, a ship which has foundered at her anchors.