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

Franc Bordage, the outside planks.

BORDAGES de fond, the planks of the bottom or floor.

Bordages pour recouvrir les ponts, the planks of the decks.

BORDAYER, to advance to windward by boards, or by tacking.

BORDE au vent, & Borde sous le vent, haul aft the sheets.

BORDÉE, a board or tack; also a watch of part of the crew.

Faire la grande Bordée, to set a watch of half the ship’s crew, when in any dangerous road, usually called the sea-watch.

Faire la petite Bordée, to set the quarter-watch.

Bordée de canon, all the guns on one side of a ship, usually called a broadside.

Envoyer une Bordée, donner la Bordée, to fire the broadside into an enemy.