An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

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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 the gabare.

GABARI, a sort of model to represent the outline and thickness of the frames of a ship’s timbers. See Couple.

Premier Gabari, or rather maître Gabari, the midship-frame.

GABARIS de l’arriere, the after-frames.

Gabaris de 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. See Jumelles.

GACHER, to row, or advance a boat with oars.

GAFFE, a boat-hook. See Croc.

GAFFER, to hook and draw any thing near with a boat-hook.

GAGNER le vent, or Gagner au vent, &c. to gain the wind of, to get to windward of. See Avantage du vent.

Gagner sur un vaisseau, to fore-reach or gain upon; to gain ground of some ship in company.

Gagner un port, un havre, un degré de latitude, to secure a harbour, or arrive at a rendezvous without interruption.

GAILLARD, or Chateau, the elevation of the quarter-deck and fore-castle.

GAILLARDELETTE, or Galan, the flag of the fore-mast.

GAILLARDET, a sort of broad pendant displayed at the fore-mast-head.

GAINE de 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, or Galéace, a galléasse, or great galley of Venice.

GALERE, a row-galley.

Galere patrone, the second of the galleys of France, Tuscany, and Malta.

GALERIE, the gallery or balcony of a ship’s stern, or quarter.

GALERIES du fond de cale, certain passages formed close to the cieling in the hold of a ship of war, for the discovery of leaks. See Accoursie.

Fausse Galeries, 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.

Galiote à bombes, a bomb-ketch.

Galiote servant 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.

Galoche likewise implies the stock or frame into which the feet of the sheet-kevels are fixed by the ship’s side.

GAMBES de 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 la Gamelle. See Etre, &c.

GANTERIAS. See Barres de 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.

Garcettes de bonnettes, the keys or buttons of the bonnets.

Garcettes de fourrures de cables, plat for serving the cables.

Garcettes de ris, the reef-points of a sail.

Garcettes de tournevire, the nippers of the cable, by which it is attached to the viol.

Garcettes de voiles, the gaskets which serve to furl the sails.

GARCONS de bord, the ordinary seamen in a ship of war or merchantman.

GARDES, or Quart, the watch.

GARDE au 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.

Garde des côtes, a military guard, employed to defend the coasts in time of war.

Garde-feux, powder-chests, or cartridge-chests.

Garde de 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.

GARDER un 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.

GARDIEN de la fosse à lion, the boatswain’s yeoman.

GARDIENNERIE, or Chambre des canoniers, the gun-room. See Sainte-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, or Gargouche, 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 rather Gréer. See Gréer.

Garnir le 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. See Bouée.

GENOU de la rame, the loom of an oar.

GENOUX de fond, the lower futtocks of the timbers.

Genoux de porques, the lower futtock-riders.

GENS de l’équipage. See Equipage.

Gens de mer, a general name for mariners.

Gens du munitionnaire, the steward’s crew or assistants.

GERSEAU, a block-strop. See Estrope.

GIBELOT, the standard which fastens the cut-water to the stem; called also, and more properly, Courbe capucine.

GINDANT. See Guindant.

GIROUETTES, vanes of the mast-head.

Girouettes quarées, 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, or bancs 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. See Ferrure de 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, ou Taillemer, the foremost and lowest part of the cut-water, or knee of the head.

GOUDRON, or Goudran, 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.

Goujure de 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. See Clavette.

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.

GOURNABLER un vaisseau, to drive the tree-nails into a ship’s sides.

GOUTIERE, or Tire-point, the water ways of the decks.

GOUVERNAIL, the helm or rudder of a ship.

GOUVERNE ou 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.

Gouverner au nord, to steer northward.

Gouverneur, ou Timonnier, the helmsman, the steersman.

GRAIN de vent, a sudden squall of wind or rain, or of both.

Grain pesant, a heavy or violent squall.

GRAND mât, the main-mast of a ship or boat.

GRAPPIN, a grappling or grapnel.

Grappin à main, ou Grappin d’abordage, a fire-grappling, or grappling of the yard-arm.

GRAPPINER, to warp a vessel towards a flake of ice, by grapplings and ropes.

GRAS de mer, discoloured water at the mouth of a river, &c.

GRASSE-bouline. See Bouline.

GRATTER un 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.

GRENADE à 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 en Grenier. See Charger, &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.

GRIGNON, sea-bread called rusks, common in Holland and Denmark.

GRIP, a small vessel resembling a schooner or shallop.

GROS d’un vaisseau, the breadth, or extreme breadth of a ship.

Gros temps, a hard gale of wind, blowing weather, foul or squally weather.

GROSSE avanture, bottomry.

GRUE, a crane with a wheel, used on wharfs and keys.

GUÉRLANDES. See Guirlande.

GUET de la mer. See Garde des côtes.

GUI, the main-boom of a sloop; also the fore-boom of a schooner.

GUINDAGE, the act of hoisting with tackles in general, but more particularly with regard to the lading or unlading a ship; also the money paid to those who are employed in such exercises.

Guindages likewise imply the tackles, and other machines used in lading, &c.

GUINDANT d’un pavillon, the hoist or height of an ensign or flag.

GUINDAS, the windlass. See Virevaut.

GUINDER, to sway up a top-mast.

GUINDERESSE, a top-rope, used to sway up, or lower the top-mast.

GUIRLANDES, the breast-hooks in a ship’s bow.

GUISPON, a brush used to pay the ship’s bottom with soap, tar, &c.

GUITERNE, a prop or shoar to support the sheers which are employed to mast a ship, or take out her masts.

GUITRAN, a sort of bitumen, or pitch, used to pay a ship’s bottom.

GUMES, or Gumeres, a general name given in Provence to all large ropes; as hausers, cables, &c.