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

BARBE. See Sainte-Barbe.

BARBES d’un vaisseau, the entrance or fore-foot of a ship.

BARBEYER, to touch or shiver; expressed of a sail when shaking in the wind.

BARCES, a short cannon, resembling a falconet, formerly used at sea.

BARCO-LONGO, a Spanish coasting-boat.

BARDIS, water-boards or weather-boards.

Bardis also implies the partitions occasionally formed in the hold to separate different species of grain, when the ship is laden therewith, &c.

BARGE, an old word for skiff or yawl.

BARIL, Barillage, Barique, small casks of different sizes.

Baril de poudre, a powder cask, containing an hundred pounds of gun-powder.