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

CORDERIE, a ropery or rope-walk, the rope-yard of a dock.

CORDIER, a rope-maker, or roper.

CORDON, a strand of rope-yarns. See Toron.

CORNE de vergue, the crutch or cheeks at the inner end of a gaff, or boom which embraces and slides along the mast of a small vessel, as the sail is hoisted or lowered.

CORNET de mât, a step and partners peculiar to the masts of some small vessels, being open at the after-part, so that the mast may occasionally be lowered over the stern. See Carlingue.

CORNETTE, a broad pendant, displayed at the mast-head of a commodore.

CORPS de bataille, the center division of a fleet of ships of war.

Corps de garde d’un vaisseau, the half-deck; that part of a ship which is under the quarter-deck and before the bulk-head of the steerage.

Corps de pompe, the chamber of a pump.

Corps d’un vaisseau, the hull of a ship, without her rigging.