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

CUL de lampe, an ornament of sculpture resembling the bottom of a lamp, and placed in several parts of the stern or galleries, to terminate the carved-work.

Cul de pot, de porc, or de port, a double or single wall-knot, wrought on the end of a tack, stopper, or other rope.

Cul de sac, a name given by the inhabitants of America to a harbour formed by nature without the assistance of art.

Cul de vaisseau. See Arriere.

CULASSE, the breech of a cannon, also the stock of a musquet.

CULÉE, the shock which a ship feels when striking the ground, on a rock or sand-bank.

CULER, to go astern, to have stern-way.

CURATEUR de la marine, an officer who formerly assigned to the several Triérarques the duties of their respective departments. See Triérarque.

CURETTE, a pump-scraper, fastened to a staff, or pole, of ten or twelve feet long, to clean the inside of a pump.

CUSEFORNE, a small, long, and sharp rowing-boat of Japan, without decks, employed to fish whales.