échoppi-er, -ère, n.m. and f., stall-keeper.
échouage, n.m., (nav.) beaching, stranding. Lieu d’—; place proper for running a vessel aground.
échouement, n.m., running aground, stranding.
échouer, v.n., to run aground or on shore, to cast away, to run against, to hit, to strand, to be stranded; to miscarry, to fail, to be disappointed. La frégate échoua contre un rocher; the frigate struck upon a rock. — dans un examen; to fail, to be plowed.
échouer, v.n., (nav.) to strand, to run aground.
écimer, v.a., to top, to pollard (trees).
éclaboussement, n.m., splashing, bespattering.
éclabousser, v.a., to splash, to bespatter.
éclaboussure, n.f., splash; (nav.) spoondrift.
éclair, n.m., lightning, flash of lightning, sort of chocolate cake; (chem.) shine. —s de chaleur; heat-lightning. Il a passé comme un —; he shot by like lightning. Faire des —s; to lighten.