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

Presenter le Côté, mettre le Côté, du vaisseau en travers, to bring the broad-side to bear upon. See Effacer.

Mettre un vaisseau sur le Côté, to lay a ship on the careen. See Abattre.

Faux-Côté, lap-sided.

Côté du vent, the weather-side, to windward.

Côté sous le vent, to leeward, the lee-side.

COTES, or Membres, d’un vaisseau, the timbers, or ribs of a ship, from the keel, upwards.

COTIER, a coaster, or coasting vessel.

COTONNINE, a species of thick sail-cloth, used in galleys and vessels of the Levant: it is formed by a mixture of hemp and cotton, the woof being of the former, and the warp of the latter.

COTONS, fishes of the mast. See Jumelle.

COTTIMO, a duty or exaction of so much per cent. which the consuls, by order of their courts, or by the consent of merchants, demand of the shipping of their nation, when they enter a port where such consuls are established.