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HABIT de bord, sea-cloaths, as jackets, trowsers, &c.
HABITACLE, the binacle.
HACHE coignée, an ax or hatchet, used by ship-wrights, &c.
Hache d’armes, a pole-axe or battle-axe, used for boarding an enemy’s ship.
HACHER, to hew or chop with an axe.
HALAGE, the tracking or towing a ship from one place to another.
HALE à-bord, the boat rope, or guess-rope of a boat’s moorings.
Hale-bas, a down-haul, or down-haul tackle.
Hale-bouline, a fresh-water sailor.
HALER, to haul or pull upon any rope.
Haler le vent, to haul the wind, or come nearer to its direction.
Haler à la cordelle, to warp a ship from one place to another.
HALEUR, a person who tracks a boat by a rope reaching ashore and fastened round his waist.
HAMAC, a hammoc.
HANCHE, the quarter of a ship.
HANGARD, a shed or store house in a dock-yard, wherein the masts and pieces of timber are covered from the weather, and ranged in order.
HANSIERE. See Aussiere.
HARPIN, a boat-hook. See Croc.
HARPON, a harpoon, used for striking whales.
HARPONNEUR, an harponeer, who strikes the whale.
HARPONS, are also sharp cutting-hooks, lashed to the yard-arms to destroy the enemies rigging, in the act of boarding.
HAUBAN de voile d’etai, the guy of a lower-studding-sail-boom, or of the main-boom of a brig, sloop, or schooner.
HAUBANER, to fasten the stay of a gin, triangle, or such sort of machine, to a stake or peg.
HAUBANS, the shrouds of the masts.
Haubans de beaupré, the standing-lifts of the sprit-sail-yard.
Haubans de chaloupe, the gripes or lashings of the boats, by which they are fastened to the decks at sea.
HAVRE, an haven, or harbour.
Havre-brut, an harbour formed by nature.
Havre de toutes marées, a port accessible at any time of the tide.
HAUSSER un vaisseau, to raise a distant ship by approaching her gradually in chace.
HAUSSIERE. See Aussiere.
HAUT & bas, the order to the men at the pump to take long strokes, which will not so readily fatigue them as the short ones, which are quicker.
Haut-pendu, a small cloud charged with a heavy squall.
HAUTE-mer, the offing.
Vaisseau en Haute-mer, a ship in the offing.
Haute-marée, le vif de l’eau, pleine-marée, high-water, a spring-tide, a spring-flood.
Haute-somme, contingent-money, expended on account of any extraordinary charges.
HAUTES-voiles, the top-sails and top-gallant-sails.
HAUTEUR, ou Latitude, the distance of any place in degrees, from the equinoctal. See Latitude.
Hauteur de l’étambot, the height of the stern-post.
Hauteur de l’étrave, the height of the stem.
Hauteur entre deux ponts, the height between decks.
HAUTS d’un vaisseau, the heights or eminences of a ship.
Mettre les mâts de hune Hauts, to sway up the top-masts, to get the top-masts an end.
HAUTURIER, or pilote-Hauturier, a pilot who directs the ship’s course by celestial observations.
HAYE, Haie, a ridge of rocks, a chain of rocks under water, or near the surface of the water.
HEAUME, the tiller, or bar of the helm in small vessels.
HELER un vaisseau, to hail or accost a ship at a distance.
HERPE de plat-bord, the harping on each side of the bow.
HERPES de poulaine, rails of the head, stretching from beneath the cat-head towards the cut-water. See Lisses de Poulaine.
Herpes marines, a general name for whatever is thrown upon the sea-coasts of value, as coral, amber, &c.
HERSE de poulie. See Estrope.
HERSES d’affut. See Erses.
HERSILIERES, certain knees placed horizontally on the quarters or bows of a ship, close to the gunnel.
HEU, a large hoy, or sailing lighter.
HEUSE, the spear of a pump, together with its box.
HILOIRES. See Illoires.
HISSE, HISSE, hoist away! hoist heartily!
HISSER, Isser, to hoist or pull up any thing by a tackle.
Hisser en douceur, to hoist handsomely, or gradually.
HIVERNER, to winter, or lie up in a port during the winter season.
HOIRIN. See Orin.
HOLA, hoa the ship a hoy! an acclamation to hail or accost a ship at a distance.
HOLA-HO, a cry which answers to yoe-hoe.
HOMME, a name frequently given as a token of distinction to an able or expert seaman.
HONNEUR, fair honneur, to give a good birth to, to keep aloof, or at a distance from; as a rock, or shoal, or some other ship,
HOPITAL, an hospital-ship, that attends on a fleet to receive the sick.
HORIZON, the horizon.
Horizon fin, a clear horizon.
Horizon gras, ou embrumé, a cloudy horizon.
HORLOGE, an half-hour glass for regulating the watch.
HOUACHE, or Sillage, the wake or track of a ship in the sea, made by her passage through it.
HOUCRE. See Hourque.
HOULES, ou lames de mer, the waves of a swelling or breaking sea.
HOULEUX, a rolling and turbulent sea.
HOUPÉE, the rise or swell of a wave.
Prendre la Houpée, to watch the swell, as in mounting from a boat into a ship, when the boat rises.
HOURAGAN. See Ouragan.
HOURSE, or Ource, the vangs of a mizen-gaff or yard.
HOURDI. See Lisse de Hourdi.
HOURQUE, a Dutch howker, a particular sort of hoy.
HOUVARI, a strong land-wind in the West-Indies, accompanied with rain, thunder, and lightning.
HUCHE, a ship with a high poop, stern, or round-house, on the quarter-deck, as a Dutch flight.
HUNE, the top.
HUNES de perroquet, the top-mast cross-trees.
HUNIER, a top-sail.
Le grand Hunier, the main-top-sail.
Le petit Hunier, the fore-top-sail.
Avoir les HUNIERS à mi-mât, to have the top-sails half-mast up.
Avoir les Huniers dehors, to have the top-sails set.
Mettre le vent sur les Huniers, to brace the top-sails to the wind, or to lay them a-back on the mast.
Amener les Huniers sur le ton, to lower the top sails down upon the cap.
HUTTER, to lower the lower yards down a port-last, and peek them up so as to hold less wind, when a ship rides at anchor in a storm.
HYDROGRAPHE, an hydrographer, employed by the state to teach navigation in the sea-ports.