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

BOSSES à aiguilettes, or à rubans, stoppers of the cable.

Bosses, stoppers of the shrouds or stays.

Bosses de chaloupe, or de canot, the boat’s painter or mooring-rope.

Bosse du bossoir, or de lout, the anchor-stoppers at the cat-head.

BOSSOIRS, the cat heads of a ship.

BOT, a boat, of several kinds. Whence

Paque-Bot, pacquet-boat, the packet, or packet-boat.

BOUCHE, the mouth of a river. Bouchaut is also sometimes used in this sense.

Bouche de canon, the bore or calibre of a piece of ordnance.

BOUCHIN, the extreme breadth of a ship, from outside to outside.