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EAU changée, discoloured water, or water whose colour is changed by approaching the shore, or otherwise.
Eau du vaisseau. See Sillage.
Eau haute, high-water. See Haute-marée.
Eau maigre, or Maigre-eau, shoal-water. This phrase is peculiar to the common sailors.
Eau plate & courtoise, very smooth water; the state of the water in a dead calm.
Eau premiere & Eau seconde, the first and second floods after a neap-tide.
EAUX fermées, water enclosed with ice.
Eaux ouvertes, an open channel, after the ice has melted or separated.
EBAROUI, abounding with shakes or rents; expressed of a ship whose planks are split, and her seams opened, by the sun or wind, for want of being wetted, or sluiced over with water, in the evenings and mornings.
EBE, or Jussant, the ebb-tide.
Il y à Ebe, the tide ebbs, or falls.
EBRANLEMENT, the cracking or straining of a ship, as she labours in a high sea.
ECALE, the touching, or anchoring, at any port, in the course of a voyage.
ECARLINGUE. See Carlingue.
ECART double, a scarf of two ends of timber laid over each other.
Ecart simple ou quarré, butt and butt; the joining of the butt-ends of two planks.
ECHAFAUD, a flake, or light stage, used in Newfoundland to dry cod-fish; also a stage hung over a ship’s side, to caulk or repair any breach.
ECHANDOLE. See Escandole.
ECHANTILLONS, the scantlings or dimensions of the different pieces of timber used in ship-building.
ECHARPE, the shell of a block or pulley. See Arcasse and Mouffle.
ECHARS, a wind that veers and hauls; a light and variable wind.
ECHELLE, a scale of equal parts; also a sea-port town, in the dialect of Provence.
Echelle de pouppe, the stern or quarter-ladder, formed of ropes.
ECHELLES, the gangway and ladder, which serve to ascend or descend the ship’s side; likewise the several ladders between decks.
Echelles de latitude croissante. See Carte réduite.
ECHILON, a water-spout. See Siphon.
ECHOME, a thoule-pin. See Autarelles and Tholet.
ECHOUEMENT, the state of being stranded or wrecked on a coast.
ECHOUER sur la rivage, to run ashore, or aground; also to be stranded.
ECLAIRCIE, a clear spot in a cloudy sky. See Clairon.
ECLAT de bois, a splinter, or chip, torn from any piece of timber, by the force of a cannon-ball or by the stroke of an ax.
ECLUSE, a sluice, or dam.
ECOLE, the school, or academy, in a dock-yard, where navigation, arithmetic, and fortification are taught.
ECOPE, a boat’s scoop, or skeet, to throw out the water in her bottom.
ECORE, the edge or extremity of a sand-bank. See Côte.
ECORES, are also the shores or props which sustain a ship in dock, or on the stocks, when they are repairing or building her. See Accores.
ECOTARD. See Porte-haubans.
ECOUETS, the tacks of the main-sail and fore-sail.
ECOUPE, or Ecoupée, a swab. See Fauber.
ECOUTES, the sheets of a sail.
Ecoute de bonette en étui, the tack or guy of a studding-sail boom.
Avoir les Ecoutes largues, to sail with a flowing sheet.
Larguer ou filer l’Ecoute, to ease off the sheet.
Border les Ecoutes, to haul aft the sheets.
Border plat les Ecoutes, to haul the sheets flat aft, or close aft.
ECOUTILLE qui s’emboîte, a hatchway with a scuttle which covers its border,
ECOUTILLES, the hatchways and scuttles in a ship’s deck.
Ecoutilles à huit pans, Ecoutilles du mât, the holes and partners of the mast.
ECOUTILLON, a scuttle, or small hatchway; also its cover.
ECOUVILLON, the spunge of a cannon.
ECOUVILLONNER, to spunge the inside of a cannon; to clean or cool it with a wet spunge.
ECRITURES, the papers of a ship, comprehending journals, registers, passports, &c.
ECRIVAIN, the clerk of a ship of war; also the supercargo of a merchant-ship.
Ecrivain emploié aux constructions, the clerk of the cheque of a dock-yard.
Ecrivain de la corderie, the clerk of the rope-yard.
ECUBIERS, the hawse-holes; also the hawse-pieces, through which those holes are cut.
ECUEIL, a dangerous rock or shoal.
ECUELLE de cabestan, the iron socket or sawcer of the capstern.
ECUME, the froth or foam of a breaking sea.
ECUMER la mer, to scour or infest the sea, as a pirate.
ECUSSON, Ecu des armes, a compartment or scutcheon upon the stern, fore-castle, or belfry, upon which the arms of the ship’s owner, or of the province or city from which her name is derived, are painted or carved. These are more peculiar to the French and Dutch than English vessels.
EFFACER, to bring the broadside to bear upon some adjacent object, by clapping a spring upon the cable.
EFFLOTER, to part company, or separate at sea, as from a fleet or other ship.
EGOUTTOIR, a grating, or drain, wherein to lay cordage after it is tarred.
EGUILLES de tré. See Aiguilles.
EGUILLETTES, or rather Aiguillettes, the futtock-riders.
Eguillettes, knittles, or small robands; also the loops or buttons of a bonnet.
Eguillettes de mâts. See Entennes.
Eguillettes de pontons, the cleats, or timber-heads on the gunnel of a pontoon, whereto the relieving-tackles are hooked in the act of careening a ship.
ELANCEMENT, or Quete, the rake of a ship: the former of these terms is always applied to the stem, and the latter to the stern-post. See Quete.
ELARGIR, to give chase; also to fly from a pursuing enemy.
S’ELEVER, to stand out to sea; also to claw off from a lee-shore.
S’Elever en latitude. See Hauteur.
ELINGUER, to sling a cask, bale, or box.
ELINGUES, slings of any kind.
Elingues à pattes, can-hooks.
ELINGUET, the pawl of a capstern or windlas.
ELME, a meteor, called by English seamen a corposant. See Feu Saint-Elme.
EMBANQUÉ, to be upon a fishing-bank, as those of Newfoundland.
EMBARDER, to sheer on one side or the other; to yaw, or steer obliquely. See Elancer.
EMBARGO, an imbargo.
EMBARQUEMENT, an embarkation.
EMBARQUER, to ship, to put goods, stores, &c. on shipboard.
S’Embarquer, to embark, or enter a ship.
EMBELLE, the gangway, or that part of the gunnel which is in the waist of a ship from the gangway to the chess-tree, or fore-castle.
EMBODINURE, or Emboudinure, the puddening of an anchor.
EMBOSSER, to anchor, or moor a ship.
EMBOSSURE, a knot formed on the end of a rope, to which a laniard is fastened; also a bend, by which one rope is fastened to another.
EMBOSSURES, a general name for moorings, stoppers, lashings, and laniards.
EMBOUCHURE, the mouth of a river; also the entrance or opening of a bay or gulph.
EMBOUFFETÉ, clinch-work.
EMBOUQUER, to enter into a streight or passage, through several islands.
EMBRAQUER, to haul, or rowse any rope into a ship; to haul aboard a rope.
EMBROUILLER les voiles, to brail up, clue up, or take in the sails.
EMBRUMÉ, foggy weather.
EMMARINÉ, hardened to the sea; as
Matelot Emmariné, a case-hardened or weather-beaten tar; a veteran sailor.
EMMARINER un vaisseau, to mann a ship, or furnish her with seamen.
EMMIELLER un étai, to worm a stay.
EMMORTOISER, to fill up a mortise with its tenon.
EMPANNER. See Mettre en panne.
EMPATER, to make a scarf; to scarf two pieces of timber together.
EMPATURE, the scarf of two ends of plank or timber.
EMPECHÉ, un manœuvre Empeché, foul, or entangled; an epithet applied to a rope, or tackle, in that situation.
EMPENNELLE, a small anchor sunk ahead of a larger one, to which it is fastened by a small hawser, or tow-line, to prevent the large anchor from loosening, or coming home to the ship.
EMPENNELLER, to carry out the empennelle.
EMPESER la voile, la mouiller, to wet the sails, in order to hold the wind better.
EMPIRANCE, the diminution of a ship’s cargo, by waste, decay, or damage, when it is found deficient at the time of delivery.
EMPORTER, to carry away a mast; as, le grand mât fut emporté, the main-mast was carried away, or, overboard.
EMPOULETTE. See Horloge.
ENCABANEMENT, the tumbling-home of a ship’s side, or narrowing of her breadth from the lower-deck-beam upwards to the gunnel.
ENCAPÉ, embayed, or entered between two capes.
ENCASTILLAGE, the elevation of the fore-castle and quarter-deck, together with all the height of a ship above the gunnel of her waist.
ENCASTILLÉ, deep-waisted, or frigate-built; as opposed to galley-built.
ENCLAVER, to let into a rabbit; as the garboard-streak is let into the keel.
ENCOGNURE, the elbow or angle of a knee or standard.
ENCOMBREMENT, cumbersome or unwieldy goods, that embarrass the stowage of a merchant-ship.
ENCOQUER, to fix or slide on, as an iron ring, block-strop, or the eye of a brace-pendant is fixed upon a yard-arm.
ENCOQUURE, the situation of an eye of a pendant, or studding-sail boom-iron, fixed on a yard arm.
ENCORNAIL, the sheave-hole in a top-mast-head, through which the top-sail-tye is reeved, to hoist or lower the top-sail along the mast.
ENCOUTURÉ, clinch-work. See also Embouffeté.
ENDENTÉ, dove-tailed, indented.
ENDORMI, out of the sailing-trim; spoken of a ship which has lost her usual velocity, or trim. See Erre.
ENFILER les cables en virant, to heave in the cables by the capstern.
ENFLECHURES, the rattlings of the shrouds.
ENFLEMENT, a swell, a rough or swelling sea, produced by a storm, &c.
ENGAGÉ, an indented servant, who engages to serve a limited time, to defray the expence of his voyage to a distant country.
ENGAGEMENT, the contract, or articles of agreement between the seamen and the commander of a merchant-ship.
ENGINS, frigates of war; a general name for those ships of war which are too small for the line of battle.
ENGRAISSEMENT, joindre du bois par Engraissement, to drive forcibly into a mortise; to fit a piece of wood so exactly, that no vacancy shall be left on any side.
ENGRENER la pompe, to pump the water out of a ship’s bottom.
ENJALER une ancre, to stock, or fix the stock upon, an anchor.
ENLACURE, the bolting of a tenon into its mortise, by boring a hole and driving a bolt through both, to unite them more securely.
ENMANCHÉ, entered or arrived, into the channel.
ENSEIGNE de vaisseau, an officer under the lieutenant, who executes his duty in his absence; also the ensign of a ship.
ENTAILLE, the rabbit or mortise by which one piece of timber is let into another.
ENTENNES, the props, or out-riggers, fixed on the side of a sheer-hulk, to support the sheers.
ENTER, to join two pieces of wood, as by scarfing, rabbiting, or placing them butt-and-butt.
ENTERRER les futailes, to stow the water-casks of a ship in the ballast.
ENTRÉE d’une riviere. See Embouchure.
ENTREMISES, small wedges, or chocks, placed between the whelps of a capstern, to keep them firm in their places.
ENTREPOT, a commercial harbour, where a magazine or storehouse is established, for the reception and exportation of goods; also a factory, or society of merchants, in a trading sea-port.
ENTREPRENEUR, a contractor for building and furnishing a ship, completely fitted according to stated dimensions.
ENTRER dans le port, to sail into the harbour.
ENTRE SABORDS, the planks which form the intervals between the ports of a ship’s side.
ENTRE-TOISE, the transoms of a gun-carriage, used at sea.
ENVERGUER, to bend a sail to its yard: this phrase is also frequently used for bending a stay-sail to its stay.
ENVERGURE, the dimensions of the sails with regard to their extent upon the yards: hence une grande Envergure, implies very square sails.
ENVOIE, the order to the helmsman to put the helm a-lee, in order to bring the ship head to wind.
EPARS du pavillon, the flag-staff, or ensign-staff.
EPAVES. See Choses de la mer.
EPAULES d’un vaisseau, the bows of a ship.
EPAULEMENT d’un tenon, the shoulder of a tenon, which enters a mortise.
EPAURES, or Epavres, the ledges upon which the fore sheets and stern-sheets of a boat are framed.
EPÉES, handspikes. Se Barres de virevaut.
EPERON, or Poulaine, the cut-water, or knee of the head, which is composed of several pieces, as la gorgere, le digon, les jottereaux, la courbe capucine, & les herpes. See Gorgere, &c.
EPINEUX, rocky above water; full of rocks and breakers.
EPISSER, to splice a rope.
EPISSOIR, or Cornet d’épisse, a marline-spike, or splicing fid of hard wood.
EPISSURE, a splice of any kind.
Epissure courte, a short splice.
Epissure longue, a long splice.
EPITE, a small pin or wedge, driven into the end of a tree-nail, to fill it.
EPITIÉ, a shot-garland, on the ship’s side between the guns.
EPONTILLE, a stanchion. See Batayolles.
EPONTILLES d’entre pont, the stanchions between decks.
EQUIPAGE, the crew of a ship of war, comprehending the officers, sailors, ordinary mariners, and boys; but exclusive of the captain, lieutenant, and ensign.
Equipage d’attelier, a general name for the machinery and furniture of a dock-yard, or shipwright’s wharf, as cranes, gins, screws, &c.
Equipage de pompe, the pump-gear, or furniture of the pumps.
EQUIPE, the number or set of boats belonging to one waterman or wherryman.
EQUIPEMENT, the fitting out of a ship, or furnishing her with men, provisions, stores, &c.
EQUIPER, to man, arm, and provide a ship with whatever is necessary to prosecute war, or commerce; exclusive, however, of the cargo itself.
ERISSON, a grappling, or anchor with four claws, used in low-built vessels, particularly galleys.
ERRE, the sailing trim of a ship, or the state by which she is best qualified for the purpose of sailing.
ERSE de poulie. See Estrope.
ERSES, or Étropes d’afût, the strops or eye-bolts in the train of a gun-carriage, to which the relieving-tackles are hooked.
ESCADRE, a squadron of ships of war.
ESCALE. See Ecale.
ESCANDOLA, the cabin of the argousin of a row-galley.
ESCARBITE, a caulker’s oil-box, or the case which contains thrums steeped in oil, to clean his irons when he is at work.
ESCARPÉ, steep-to; expressed of a shore which may be approached without danger.
ESCARPINE, a fire-arm, resembling a cohorn, used at sea.
ESCHILON. See Echilon.
ESCOPE, or rather Ecope, a skeet to wet the sails, or the ship’s side. See Ecope.
ESCOT, the aftmost lower corner of a lateen sail.
ESPALE, the aftmost bank or thwart of a row-galley.
ESPALIER, the person who rows with the handle of the oar, or who is at the inner extremity, and rises at every stroke to guide it.
ESPALMER, to pay the bottom of a vessel with soap, &c. after having breamed her.
ESPOIR, a small piece of artillery, formed of brass, mounted on the deck of a ship, more particularly the caraques of Portugal.
ESPONTON, a sort of half-pike, employed to defend a ship from the assault of boarding.
ESPOULETTE, a tin canteen, or case, to carry fine powder to the cannon, in the time of battle.
ESQUAINS, the quick-work, or the planks laid upon that part of a ship’s side which is above the spirketting of the quarter-deck and fore-castle.
ESQUIF, a skiff, yawl, or small boat belonging to a ship.
ESSES, the forelocks which are driven through the axletrees of the gun-carriages, to confine the wheels in their proper places.
ESSIEU, or rather Aissieu, d’affut de bord, the axis of a gun-carriage, by which it rests upon the wheels.
ESSUIEUX. See Ecouvillon.
ESTAINS, the fashion-pieces of the stern.
ESTANCE à taquets, a Sampson’s-post. See also Piédroit.
ESTANCES. See Epontilles d’entre-pont.
ESTERRE, a small haven or creek.
ESTIME, the dead-reckoning.
Erreur dans l’Estime, the errors of a dead-reckoning.
ESTIVE, the trim or disposition of the cargo, by which the ship swims upright, inclining to neither side.
ESTOUPIN, Etoupin, or Valet, the vent of a cannon, formed of oakum.
ESTRAN, a name sometimes given to a flat and sandy sea-coast.
ESTRAPADE marine, a naval punishment. See Cale.
ESTRAPONTIN, an Indian hammock. See Hamac.
ESTRIBORD, or Stribord. See Stribord.
ESTROPER, to reeve a rope through any block.
ESTROPES, a general name for block-strops.
Estropes d’affut. See Erses.
Estropes de marche-pieds, the stirrups of the horses.
ETABLI sur ses amarres, settled, moored, or stationed in a port.
ÉTAI, the stay of a mast.
Étai du grand mât, or grand etai, the main-stay.
Étai du grand mât de hune, the main-top-mast-stay.
Étai du grand perroquet, the main-top-gallant-stay.
Étai du mât d’artimon, the mizen-stay.
Étai du mât de hune d’avant, the fore-top-mast-stay.
Étai du misaine, or du mât de misaine, the fore-stay.
Étai de perroquet d’artimon, or de foule, the mizen-top-mast-stay,
Étai de 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.
ETAT d’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 grand Etat, a captain of a ship of the line of battle.
Capitaine du petit Etat, a master and commander.
ETENDARD, the royal standard, carried by the principal galley of France.
ETÉSIES, or vents Etésiens, trade-winds, or monsoons.
ÉTOUPE, oakum, or oakham.
Étoupe blanche, white oakum, or that which is formed of untarred ropes.
Étoupe goudronnée, black oakum, or oakum made of tarred ropes.
ETRAQUE, the limited breadth of a streak, or plank, used in ship-building.
Etraque de gabord, the garboard-streak, or the breadth of the streak next to the keel.
ETRAVE, the stem of a ship.
ETRE à flot, the state of being buoyed up by the water.
Etre à la gamelle, to mess with the common sailors.
Etre au dessus du vent. See Avantage du vent.
Etre banqué, or débanqué, to be upon, or off, the grand bank of Newfoundland.
Etre dans les eaux d’un vaisseau, to be in the wake of a ship.
Etre de bout au vent. See Aller de bout au vent.
Etre flanc à flanc. See Prolonger.
Etre pratique 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. See Estropes.
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.
EVENTER les 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.
Evitée is 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.
EVITER à marée, to stem the tide or current.
Eviter au 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.
Exercice du canon, the exercise of the great guns.
EXPEDITION maritime, a cruise or long voyage at sea.