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

COEFFÉ, aback. Un vaisseau Coeffé, a ship laid aback.

COEFFER, to back a sail, to lay aback, or to the mast.

COFFRE à feu, a powder-chest, fixed on the deck or side of a ship, to-be discharged upon a boarding enemy.

Coffre à gargousses, a cartridge-chest, which contains the filled cartridges in a ship’s magazine.

Coffre de bord, a sea-chest, a sailor’s chest.

COINS d’arrimage, the quoins or coins used in the stowage of a ship’s hold, &c.

Coins de chantier, the wedges driven between the blocks and the keel, when a ship is building.

Coins de mât, the wedges of a mast, by which it is confined in the partners, or in the cap.

COITES, the ways, or cradles, upon which a ship gradually descends, when she is launched into the water.

Coites de guindas, the cheeks or bits of the windlas. See Clef de guindas.