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

ARAMBER, to close in with a ship and grapple her.

ARBALETE, a cross-staff or fore-staff.

ARBALETRIERE, a platform, or gangway, on which the soldiers stand to fire their musquetry in a row-galley.

ARBORER un mât, to step or set up a mast, to get the mast an end.

Arborer un pavillon, to hoist and display a flag or ensign.

ARBRE, a mast, in the dialect of Provence. See Mat.

ARC, or ligne courbe de l’éperon, the curve of the prow or cutwater.

ARCANNE, a sort of red chalk used by shipwrights in France, to mark the timber in hewing or forming it.

ARCASSE, the stern of a ship; also the shell of a block.

ARCBOUTANT, a spar or small mast; more particularly, a boom to extend the bottom of a studding-sail, square-sail, or driver.