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BABORD. See Bas-bord.
BAC, a large flat-bottomed ferry-boat, for horses, carriages, &c.
Bac a naviger, a punt, or small boat, used by the shipwrights to carry tar, pitch, &c.
BACALAS, cleats of various kinds.
BACALIAU, a name given to dried salt cod-fish.
BACASSAS, a sort of lighter, somewhat resembling an American periagua.
BACHE, or Bachot, a yawl or wherry.
BACLAGE, a tier of boats, moored along-side of each other.
BACLER les ports, to fortify harbours by fixing chains or booms athwart their entrances; also to bar in the gun ports of a ship.
BAGUE, a small grommet, or wreath of an eye-let hole in a sail.
BAIE. See Baye.
BAILLE, an half-tub used to contain shot, grenades, matches, &c. also to hold water for cooling the guns in time of action, or to freshen the salt provisions.
BAJOU, or Bajon, a sort of tiller.
BAISSER, to fall down with the tide, to drive or be carried along, according to the course of the stream.
Baisser le pavillon. See Amener.
Baisser les voiles, to lower the sails.
BALAI du ciel, the sweeper of the sky; a name given by sailors to the north-west winds of America, which always bring clear weather.
BALANCIER de lampe, the rings by which the lamp is slung in the binacle.
BALANCIERS de compas, or de boussole, the gimbals of a sea-compass, by which it is hung in equilibrio.
BALANCINES, or Valancines, lifts of the yards.
Balancine de chaloupe, the topping-lift of a boat.
BALANT, the bight or slack part of a rope, also the part which is unemployed.
BALAST. See Lest.
BALAYEUR d’un navire, the swabber or sweeper of a ship, usually called captain-swabber.
BALCONS, the galleries framed in the stern or quarter of a great ship.
BALISE, a sea-mark, the beacon or buoy of a shoal or dangerous channel.
BALOIRES, a name sometimes given to water-lines, and to horizontal ribbands. See Ligne d’eau.
BALON, a sort of galley or barge of Siam.
BANC, a sand-bank; also the bench, thwart, or beam of a boat.
Banc à s’asseoir, the seats or benches placed in the stern-sheets of a boat or small vessel.
Banc à coucher, a sort of folding bed-stead, or settee-bed.
Bancs de rameurs, the thwarts or seats of the rowers in a galley or row-boat.
BANCHE, a ridge or reef of rocks, under the surface of the water.
BANDE, the side of a ship; also a coast, or the side of a river. Hence
Bande du nord, the northern shore, &c.
Avoir son vaisseau à la Bande, to have his ship laid on the careen.
Bande de sabords, a tier of gun-ports on one side of a ship.
BANDER une voile, to line a sail at the edges in order to strengthen it.
BANDIERES, the flag or colours: this term is peculiar to the gallies.
BANDINS, a sort of stancheons or small pillars, ornamented with sculpture, and used to support the after-canopy or awning of a row-galley.
BANDOULIERE, a cartridge-box for musquetry, used by the marines or others who fight with small arms.
BANNEAU. See Bouée.
BANNIERE, a Levantine term for the colours. See Bandiere.
BANQUE, a banker, or vessel which fishes on the banks of Newfoundland, &c.
BANQUETTES, the stretchers of a galley or row-boat.
BAPTEME, the ceremony of ducking a sailor the first time he passes the line, or tropics, from which he may be redeemed by paying a certain forfeit. Hence
BAPTISER, to duck, &c.
Baptiser un vaisseau, to give a ship her name at the time of launching.
BARAT, or Baraterie, the forfeiture or fine paid by the master of a ship and his crew, for embezzling part of the cargo, or suffering it to be damaged by neglect of stowage, &c.
BARBE. See Sainte-Barbe.
BARBES d’un vaisseau, the entrance or fore-foot of a ship.
BARBEYER, to touch or shiver; expressed of a sail when shaking in the wind.
BARCES, a short cannon, resembling a falconet, formerly used at sea.
BARCO-LONGO, a Spanish coasting-boat.
BARDIS, water-boards or weather-boards.
Bardis also implies the partitions occasionally formed in the hold to separate different species of grain, when the ship is laden therewith, &c.
BARGE, an old word for skiff or yawl.
BARIL, Barillage, Barique, small casks of different sizes.
Baril de poudre, a powder cask, containing an hundred pounds of gun-powder.
Barillard, the steward, or officer who has charge of the wine and water on board of a vessel. This term is peculiar to the galleys.
BARIQUES a feu, or foudroyantes, thundering-barrels, or casks which contain the fire-pots in a fire ship.
BARQUE, a settee, or three-masted vessel with lateen sails.
Barque à eau, a watering-boat, or vessel employed for carrying water.
Barque d’avis, an advice-boat.
Barque de descente, a sort of lighter.
Barque de vivandier, a provision-boat, a bumboat.
Barque droite, the order to trim the boat upright, when she heels.
Barque en fagot, a boat in frame, an assemblage of all the pieces of a boat, ready formed and put on board a ship, in order to build her at the place where she may be required.
Barque longue, or double chaloupe, a sort of pinnace, or large long-boat.
BARQUEROLES, Barquette, or Barcanette, a sort of passage boats.
BARRE, the bar of a harbour; also a chain of rocks.
Barre à bord, hard over; the order to put the helm close to the ship’s side.
Barre d’arcasse, a transom. See Lisse de hourdi.
Barre de gouvernail, the tiller of the helm.
Barre de gouvernail toute à bord, the whole force of the helm when the tiller is hard a-starboard, or hard a-port.
Change la Barre, the order to the steersman to shift the helm.
Pousse la Barre à arriver, no nearer, put the helm a-weather.
Pousse la Barre à venir au vent, luff, or keep your luff.
Barre de pompe, the pump-spear.
Barre de pont, the deck-transom, parallel to the wing-transom.
BARRER, to secure; as, Barrer un port, to secure or defend a harbour, by fixing a boom across the mouth of it.
BARRES, the booms or chains fixed across a harbour, to secure it from the assaults of an enemy.
Barres de cabestan, the bars of the crab or capstern.
Barres de contre-arcasse, or sous-barres d’arcasse, the lower transoms.
Barres d’écoutille, the hatch-bars.
Barres de hune, barreaux, or tesseaux, the frames of the cross-trees and tressel-trees.
Barres de panneaux d’écoutille, the carlings, or ledges placed athwart under the hatchways.
Barres de porte, the gun-port bars, by which their covers are fastened in.
Barres de virevaut, the hand-spikes, or bars of the windlass.
BARRILLARD. See Barillard.
BARROTE, full to the beams; an epithet given to a vessel which is laden up to the beams of her deck. Whence
BARROTER, to lade a ship, &c.
BARROTS, the beams of the higher decks.
BARROTINS, ledges, or small spars, placed between the beams.
Barrotins de caillebotis, ledges of the gratings.
Barrotins d’écoutilles, the spurs of the beams, or the pieces which are joined to the beams to fortify the deck a-breast of the hatchways.
BAS de soie, iron-garters; a cant term applied to bilboes or fetters.
Bas du vaisseau, the lower parts of a ship.
Bas le pavillon, haul down the colours.
BASBORD, the larboard or left side of a ship.
Vaisseau de Basbord, a low-built vessel, whose deck extends not to her whole length.
Basbord tout, hard a-port; the order to put the helm close to the larboard side.
BASBORDES or Basborduis, the larboard-watch.
BASE des sabords, the plank between the lower edges of the gun-ports and the wale.
BAS-FOND, a shoal or shallow.
BASSE, or Bature, a ridge of rocks, sand-banks, &c. with breakers.
Basse eau, low-water, the last of the ebb.
BASSES voiles, the courses, or principal lower sails, of a ship.
BASSIN, a basin or bason; also a small harbour within a larger one.
BASTARD de racage, the parrel-rope.
BASTARDE, the largest sail of a galley, which is only carried in fair weather and light winds.
BASTARDES, or Batardelles, square-sterned row-gallies.
BASTINGUAGE, painted quarter-cloths, or waist-cloths; also the quarter-nettings, &c.
BASTUDE, a peculiar sort of fishing-net.
BATAILLE navale, a general or particular sea fight.
BATARDEAU, a sort of dam.
BATAYOLLES, the quarter-stanchions, or the stanchions which support the rails of the waist and quarter.
BATAYOLETTES, small stanchions, used to sustain the awnings.
BATEAU, a general name for several kinds of boats; as
Bateau délesteur, a ballast-boat, or lighter.
Bateau pêcheur, a fishing-boat, &c.
BATELÉE, the lading, or number of passengers, to be carried in a boat.
BATELIERS, the boat-men, the wherry-men.
BATIMENT, a vessel or small ship of any kind.
BATON astronomique, Jacob’s staff; an instrument formerly used for taking altitudes at sea.
Baton à meche, a lint-stock. See Boute-feu.
Baton de flamme, the stick which spreads the inner part of a pendant.
Baton de giroüette, the spindle upon which the vane turns, at the mast-head.
Baton de justice, a cobbing-board.
Baton de pavillon, or d’enseigne, the flag-staff, or ensign-staff.
Baton de vadel, or de guispon, the handle of a long tar-brush, or pitch-mop.
BATONNÉE d’eau, the quantity of water thrown out by the pump at each stroke of the brake or handle.
BATTANT de pavillon, the fluttering or waving of an ensign, as it flies in the wind.
BATTERIE, the whole range of cannon placed on both sides of any one deck in a vessel of war,
Batterie & demie, a deck and a half of cannon; spoken of a frigate which carries cannon on her upper-deck and quarter-deck only.
Mettez la Batterie de hors, run the guns out.
Mettez la Batterie dedans, run in the guns.
BATTRE aux champs, to found a march or chase at sea.
Battre à Diane, to beat a reveille on the drum, as at day-break.
Battre la marche, to give the signal for sailing.
BATTU, weather-beaten, shattered by a storm, or disabled in battle.
BATTURE. See Basse.
BAU, abeam of the lower-decks.
Bau de dale, the hindermost or aftmost beam.
Bau de lof, the foremost beam in a ship.
Bau-maître, or Maître-Bau, the midship-beam, or the beam which is placed at the extreme breadth.
BAUX-faux, or Faux-Baux, beams of the orlop.
BAUDET, a sawyer’s frame, horse, or tresle.
BAUQUIERES, the clamps, or inner planks, by which the beams of a ship rest upon her sides.
BAYE, a bay, or bight.
BAYES, or Baies, d’un vaisseaux, the holes in the deck through which the masts are let down, called also the partners.
BEAUPRÉ, the bowsprit. Whence
Petit Beaupré, the jib-boom, or sprit-sail top-mast.
Beaupré sur pouppe, close behind; spoken of one ship which is so near to the stern of another, in chase or otherwise, that the bowsprit of the former hangs over the stern of the latter.
BEC de corbin, a caulker’s sharp iron, or instrument, with which he cuts the old oakum out of a seam.
BÉLANDRE, a small vessel, carrying about eighty tons, and usually navigated by three or four men. This is nowise like the English bilander.
BELLE, the main-deck, or waist. See Embelle.
BERCEAUX. See Bigot.
BERCHE. See Barces.
BERGE, a bold shore; also an artificial mound, or rampire, on the banks of a river, to prevent it from overflowing.
BERNE, a waft of the ensign.
Mettre le pavillon en Berne, to hoist the ensign with a waft.
BESSON, the arching or convexity of the beams and decks. See Tonture.
BESTION, the head, or ornamental figure, on the prow of a ship.
BIDON, or Canette, a cann.
BIGOTS, the ribs of a parrel. See Racage.
BIGUES, certain props, or shoars, let into the ports of a ship, to bear her up when she rests upon the ground; also the masts of a sheer-hulk.
BILLE, the beckets of the tacks and sheets.
BILLER, to fasten a rope to a boom, in order to ride or tow a boat.
BILLOTS, dead-wood, or short pieces of timber laid upon the keel, between the crotches, afore and abaft. See Contre-quille.
BISCUIT, biscuit, sea-bread.
BISE, vent de nord-nord-est, the north-north-east wind.
BISTORD, spun-yarn.
Bistord de trois fils, three-yarn spun-yarn.
BITTES, the bits. Whence
BITTER le cable, to bit the cable.
BITTON, a post fixed on a wharf, or pier, whereon to fasten a cable.
BITTONS, or Taquets, the top sail-sheet bits.
BITTURE, a range of the cable drawn upon the deck, ready for bitting.
BLEU, a temporary or acting officer, who performs the duty of another while sick or absent.
BLIN, a machine used to drive the wedges under a ship’s bottom, when she is to be launched.
BLOCQUER, or Bloquer. See Plocquer.
BOIS, wood or timber.
BOITE du gouvernail, the rudder-case, or the box placed above the rudder-head, upon deck, through which the tiller passes.
BOMBARDE, a bomb-vessel, a ketch.
BOMBÉ, incurvated; an epithet given by shipwrights to crooked timber, fit for knees, crotches, or standards.
BOMERIE, bottomry.
BON-FRAIS, a fresh of wind, or fresh gale.
BONNACE, calm weather, with a smooth sea.
BONNE de nage, swift of rowing, a fine rower.
Bonne-voglie, a volunteer-rower in the gallies.
BONNEAU, a buoy. See Bouée and Orin.
BONNETTE, the bonnet of a sail.
Bonnette lardée. a bag or basket charged with cinders, ashes, and chopped oakum, to be used in the act of Fothering, which see.
Lasser la Bonnette, to fasten the bonnet of a sail to its principal part.
BONNETTES, en étui, a general name for all studding-sails.
BON-TOUR, a favourable swing or turn; expressed of a ship when she keeps her hawse clear by winding the right way.
BORD, board, or aboard.
Renverser, tourner, changer le Bord, to veer or tack.
Rendre le Bord, to anchor, to come to an anchor.
Bord à bord, along-side; spoken of two ships lying near to each other.
Bord allongé, or qui allonge, a-long board; understood of a vessel plying to windward.
Bord à terre, Bord au large, standing in, or off, shore.
Bord de la mer, the sea-coast or shore.
Bord sur bord, tack for tack, hank for hank.
Faire un Bord, to make a tack.
Bon Bord, a good board.
Courir même Bord que l’ennemi, to stand on the same tack with the enemy.
BORDAGE, the planks of a ship’s side. Hence
Franc Bordage, the outside planks.
BORDAGES de fond, the planks of the bottom or floor.
Bordages pour recouvrir les ponts, the planks of the decks.
BORDAYER, to advance to windward by boards, or by tacking.
BORDE au vent, & Borde sous le vent, haul aft the sheets.
BORDÉE, a board or tack; also a watch of part of the crew.
Faire la grande Bordée, to set a watch of half the ship’s crew, when in any dangerous road, usually called the sea-watch.
Faire la petite Bordée, to set the quarter-watch.
Bordée de canon, all the guns on one side of a ship, usually called a broadside.
Envoyer une Bordée, donner la Bordée, to fire the broadside into an enemy.
BORDER, to plank a ship, or lay on her outside planks; also to stand towards, examine, or observe the motions of an enemy at sea.
Border & brasser au vent, to trim the sails by the wind.
Border à quein, to plank a ship with clench-work, or plank over plank.
Border en louvelle, to lay on the planks level, or with their surfaces even.
Border l’artimon, to haul the mizen-sheet flat aft, or close aft.
Border les avirons, to ship the oars ready for rowing.
Border les écoutes arrieres, to haul aft both sheets of a sail, for going afore the wind.
Border les écoutes tout plat, to tally the sheets flat aft.
Border un vaisseau, to board or enter a ship, either in a hostile or friendly manner.
Border une voile, to trim a sail by the tacks and sheets.
BORDIER, lap-sided; expressed of a ship stronger on one side than the other.
BORÉAL, vent Boreal, the northern wind.
BORNAGER, a method of shoving a great boat off from the shore, in a river, by fixing one end of the setting-pole against her side, whilst the other bears upon the ground.
BOSPHORE, a streight, or narrow channel; as the Thracian Bosphorus.
BOSSAGE, a name given by shipwrights to crooked timber, fit for knees, &c.
BOSSE, a powder-flask, used by privateers, in naval engagements.
Serre-Bosse, the shank-painter.
BOSSEMAN, second contre maître, the boatswain’s mate.
BOSSER l’ancre, to cat the anchor; also to stow the anchor. See Caponner.
Bosser le cable, to stopper the cable. From
BOSSES à aiguilettes, or à rubans, stoppers of the cable.
Bosses, stoppers of the shrouds or stays.
Bosses de chaloupe, or de canot, the boat’s painter or mooring-rope.
Bosse du bossoir, or de lout, the anchor-stoppers at the cat-head.
BOSSOIRS, the cat heads of a ship.
BOT, a boat, of several kinds. Whence
Paque-Bot, pacquet-boat, the packet, or packet-boat.
BOUCHE, the mouth of a river. Bouchaut is also sometimes used in this sense.
Bouche de canon, the bore or calibre of a piece of ordnance.
BOUCHIN, the extreme breadth of a ship, from outside to outside.
BOUCHON d’etoupe, de foin, ou de paille, the wad of a cannon, formed of oakum, hay, &c.
BOUCHOTS, a penn, or place enclosed by hurdles, for fishing on the sea-coast.
BOUCLE, shackles or bilboes.
Mettre un matelot sous Boucle, to confine a sailor, or put him in irons.
Un port Bouclé, a harbour which is land-locked.
BOUDINURE de l’arganeau, the puddening of the anchor. See Embodinure.
BOUÉE, a buoy.
Bouée de bout de mât, a wooden buoy, formed of an end of a mast.
Bouée de barril, a cann-buoy, or nun-buoy.
BOUGE, incurvated; spoken of a piece of timber; also of the rounding or convexity of the decks and beams. See Tonture.
BOUILLAR, a squall, a cloud charged with wind and rain.
BOUILLONEMENT, the rippling of a river, as it is discharged into the ocean.
BOULETS, balls or bullets of a cannon. Whence
Boulets rouge, red-hot bullets. Boulets à chaîne, chain-shot. Boulets à branches, or à deux têtes, bar or double-headed shot.
BOULIER, a sort of fishing-net.
BOULINE, the bowline. Bouline de la grand voile, the main bowline.
Bouline de revers, the lee bowline.
Faire courir la Bouline, to run the gauntlope.
BOULINER. See Aller à la bouline.
BOULINGUE, the royal-sail.
BOULINIER, a ship that sails close-hauled. Hence bon Boulinier signifies a ship that plies well to windward.
BOULON, an iron bolt. See Cheville.
Boulons d’afut, the bolts of the gun-carriages.
BOUQUE, an entrance or channel between islands or in narrow seas.
BOUQUETS, the fore-thwarts or fore-sheets of a boat.
BOURCER un voile, to carry a sail clewed up, or hauled up in the brails. See Carguer.
BOURCET, a name given to the fore-sail and fore-mast of small vessels in the English Channel.
BOURGEOIS, the proprietor or owner of a ship.
Bourgeois is also the person who bargains with a shipwright to build a ship, called the contractor or ship’s husband.
BOURGUIGNON, an island of ice.
BOURRASQUE, a violent squall of wind.
BOURRE, the wadding of a charge in artillery.
BOURRELET, or Bourlet, the puddenings of the yards.
Bourrelet de canon, the muzzle-ring of a piece of cannon.
BOURSE, or Bource, the exchange, or place of resort for merchants, mariners, &c. in a commercial sea-port.
BOUSSOLE, Compas de route, or Cadran de mer, the sea compass.
Boussole affolée, an erroneous or defective compass. See Affolée.
Boussole de cadran, an horizontal dial, with a magnetical needle.
BOUT de beaupré, a boom used for a bowsprit in small vessels.
Bout de corde, a rope’s end, a short piece of rope.
Bouts de cable, pieces of junk, or old cable.
Bouts de corde, a cat of nine tails, scourge, or rope’s end for punishment.
Bout de vergue, the yard-arm, but more particularly that part of it which reaches beyond the upper corners of its respective sail, to extend the reef.
BOUTE-DEHORS, the studding-sail booms: this name is also given to a small mast erected in the tops, to hoist up and fix the caps on the mast-heads.
Boute-dehors is likewise a boom to push off some ship which is near, or which approaches for any hostile purpose, as to board, &c.
Boute de lof, or Boute-lof, the bumkin, or boom of the fore tack.
Boute-feu, a lint-stock; also the name of an officer who is appointed to fire the cannon.
Boute-lof. See Boute de lof.
Boute le cable au cabestan & vire l’ancre, bring the cable to the capstern, or bring-to the cable, and heave to the anchor.
BOUTEILLES, the quarter-badges of a ship. See Balcon.
Bouteilles de callebasse, bundles of buoyant rushes, used in the exercise of learning to swim.
BOUTER, to bear off, to push, to join, &c.
Bouter à l’eau, to launch into the water, to put to sea.
Bouter au large, to stand out into the offing.
Bouter de lof, to haul the wind, to trim sharp.
BOUTES, large casks, which hold fresh water for the use of a sea-voyage.
BOUTEUX, or Bout de quevre, a sort of fishing rod.
BOUTONNER la bonette, to lash on the bonnets. See Bonnette.
BOUVET, a sort of plane used by shipwrights to form a small groove.
BOYE, See Bouée or Balise.
BOYER, a kind of Dutch sloop.
BRAGUE, the breeching of a cannon used at sea.
BRAI, pitch. Hence braier un vaisseau, to pay the seams of a ship with hot melted pitch, after they are caulked with oakum. It is sometimes mixed with other compositions, to nourish the timber, and is then called Brai gras.
BRANCHE de ciprès, beaconage; a small duty paid by shipping in France, for keeping the beacons in repair.
Branche superieure d’une courbe, the upper part of a knee.
Branche d’embas, the lower arm of a knee or standard.
BRANLE, a hammock.
Tendre les Branles, to sling the hammocks.
Branle bas, or fort Branle, the order to lash and take down all the hammocks between decks, in order to prepare for engagement, or otherwise to clear the ship.
BRAS, the brace of a yard.
Tenir un Bras, to haul in and fasten the brace.
Bon Bras, braced to a large wind, braced in.
Bras de revers, the lee brace.
Bras, or Branches d’ancre, the anchor-arms.
BRASSE, a fathom, or measure of six feet.
BRASSEIAGE, the quarters of a yard.
Brasser à faire porter, or à faire servir to fill the sails after they have been braced a back.
Brasser au vent, to brace the sails in, to haul in the weather braces.
Brasser les voiles sur le mât, to brace the sails a-back, or lay the sails to the mast. This is also called Brasser à contre. See Coeffer.
Brasser sous le vent, to brace to leeward, to brace up.
BRAYES, the tarred canvas coats of the mast.
BREDINDIN, a small stay-tackle, or burton, affixed to the main-stay.
BREF, a sort of warrant or commission from the state, allowing a ship to purchase provisions, conducting her safe on the coast, and exempting her from other duties.
BREGIN, a sort of fishing-net, with very small meshes, used in the Mediterranean.
BREQUIN, or Ville-Brequin, a shipwright’s wimble to bore wood.
BRESSIN, the jears or haliards of a yard or sail; also a tackle-hook. See Palan.
BREVET, Connoissement, Police de chargement, a bill of lading.
Brevet d’officier, the commission or warrant of an officer.
BREUILLER. See Carguer.
BREUILS. See Cargues, Martinets, and Garcettes.
BRIDER l´ancre, to bridle the anchor[[59]].
BRIEUX, a term used in Brittany to express the salutation of striking the flag, or topsails, to an admiral, &c. Also a duty paid for entering a harbour.
BRIGANTIN, a small light vessel, navigated by oars and sails; but differing extremely from the vessel known in England by the name of brig or brigantine.
BRIMBALE, the brake or handle of a ship’s pump.
BRION, the fore-foot, placed at the extremity of the keel forward.
BRIS, a duty formerly paid to the lord of the coast, by those who suffered shipwreck thereon. This unjust exaction is now totally abolished. See Debris.
BRISANT, or Brisans, a shelf or ridge of rocks nearly level with the surface of the water, and distinguished by the breakers, or waves that burst over it; also the breakers themselves.
BRISE, a fresh gale or breeze; the trade-winds, or sea-breezes between the tropics.
Brise carabinée, a violent wind or squall.
BRISER, to split, or dash forcibly against a rock or shelf; expressed of a ship when she is stranded.
BRISES, the land-winds which blow during the night in the West Indies, &c.
BROCHETER, to give the scantlings of the several members or pieces of a ship’s frame.
BROU, the bark of the cocoa, of which the Indians form the cordage used in their shipping,
BRUINE, small drizzling rain.
BRULOT, a fire ship.
BRUME, a mist or fog at sea.
Tems Embrumé, or couvert de brouillard, thick misty weather.
BUCENTAURE, a sort of galley used by the state of Venice, when the doge performs the annual ceremony of espousing the sea.
BUCHE, a herring-buss, or small fly-boat used in the herring-fishery.
BULLETIN, a certificate given to sea-officers and sailors, when they are registered in a port, to testify their qualities, age, privileges, and time of service.
BURINS. See Tappes.
BUTIN, the pillage or plunder of a prize taken from an enemy.