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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JAC, or Jacht. See Yacht.

JACQ. See Pavillon.

JALOUX, a name given in Provence to the quality of rolling violently at sea; or of being crank.

JAMBES de hune. See Gambes de hune.

JARDEN, a name sometimes given to the gallery or balcony of a ship.

JARLOT, the rabbit, or channel, cut in the stem afore, and in the stern-post abaft, &c. and into the keel, to receive the ends or edges of the planks which cover the timbers.

JAS, or Jouails d’ancre, the anchor-stock, or the two pieces of which it is composed.

JATTE, the manger. See Gatte.

JAVEAU, a bank, or small island, formed in a river by a mass of gravel or mud.

JAUGE, the tonnage or burthen of a vessel.

JAUGER, to measure, or take the dimensions of a ship, in order to discover her tonnage, or the space contained in her hold, &c.

JAUMIÉRE, the hole in a ship’s counter or stern, which contains the rudder-head, and in which it is turned by the tiller; the lower part of it is usually covered with a piece of tarred canvas nailed to the rudder, to prevent the entrance of water.

JET de voiles, a complete suit of sails for all the masts, yards, stays, &c.

Jet also implies any part of the cargo, &c. thrown over-board in a storm.

Faire le Jet, to throw over-board the cargo, or any part of it, in a dangerous storm, in order to lighten the vessel, so as to prevent shipwreck or foundering; on which occasion the master usually draws up a protest against the weather, &c. on his arrival in port.

JETTÉE, a pier, or mole-head, formed by a heap of stones sunk at, or near, the entrance of a harbour. Also a great wharf or key.

JETTER à la mer, to throw any thing over-board.

Jetter dehors le fond du hunier, to foot the top-sail out of the top.

Jetter du bled, ou autres grains à la bande, to trim the corn, salt, or such like materials, to the other side of the ship, on any particular occasion.

Jetter l’ancre, to let go the anchor, to drop anchor.

Jetter la sonde, ou le plomb, to sound, or heave the lead.

Jetter un navire sur un banc, ou sur un rocher, ou à la côte, to run a ship ashore, upon a bank, rock, or coast, to avoid an enemy.

JEU du governail, the play of the helm or rudder.

ILLOIRES, two ranges of planks running fore and aft in a French ship, for the whole length of the deck on each side of the hatches, in the same place where the carlings are in an English ship of war.

INCOMMODÉ, disabled by the loss of masts, sails, or rigging. See Désemparé.

INGÉNIEUR de la marine, an officer who conducts the fortifications of a sea-port, either for attack or defence; also a person employed to survey coasts, draw sea-charts, and teach the theory of navigation.

INONDER, to overflow a country by an inundation of the sea.

INSPECTEUR des constructions, an officer whose duty is nearly similar to that of our surveyors of the navy.

INTENDANT de marine, an officer who, by his duty and authority, resembles our resident-commissioner of a dock-yard. See Commissaire generál de la marine, who is his deputy, and where his office is fully explained.

Intendant des armées navales, an officer appointed to regulate the justice, police, and finances of a naval armament.

Intendant général de la marine, a commissioner-general of all the royal dock-yards and ports of the kingdom.

INTERLOPRES, smugglers, or contraband traders.

INTÉRRESSÉS. See Chargeurs.

INVESTIR, to touch or stop at any port in a voyage, also to be driven into a road or harbour.

JOL, a Danish yawl.

JONCTION de deux flotes, ou de deux armées navales, the conjunction of two fleets of ships of war, or merchantmen.

JONQUE, a Chinese junk.

JOTTES, the fore-part of a ship’s bow, contained between the cat-head and the stem.

JOTTEREAUX, the cheeks of the head, or knees which are fastened to the cutwater, and to the bows, on each side of a ship’s stem.

Jottereaux de mât, the cheeks of the mast.

JOUER le gouvernail, to play the helm, or traverse it from side to side in light winds.

Jouer, to fetch way; as,

Le mât Joue, the mast fetches way.

JOUES de virevaut, the cheeks of the windlass.

JOUETS, certain clamps, or plates of iron, used to prevent the bolt-heads from cutting the timber into which they are driven; as,

Jouets de pompe, the iron clamps nailed on the cheeks or ears of the pump, through which the bolts are thrust.

Jouets de sep de drisse, plates of iron nailed on the sep de drisse, to preserve it from the iron pins of the jear-block.

JOUR, a light-port; also the interval left between two pieces of timber, to prevent them from chafing each other.

JOURS. See Sejours.

ISLES d’avau le vent, the Leeward Islands of the West Indies.

Isles du vent, the Windward Islands of the West Indies.

ISSAS. See Drisse.

ISSER. See Hisser.

ISSONS, thick white ropes, used as jears to the lower yards.

ISSOP, or Isop, hoist away! sway away! the order to hoist up any thing.

ITAQUE, the tye of any yard, to whose lower-end the haliards are fastened; but more particularly a top-sail tye.

Itaque de palan, the runner of a tackle.

JUMELLER un mât, to fish a mast, or fasten fishes upon it.

JUMELLES, the fishes of the lower mast.

JUSSANT, the ebb-tide.