DÉBOUQUEMENT, the arrival into open sea, after having been amongst islands, or in narrow channels.
DE BOUT à la lame, head to the sea.
De bout à terre, head to the shore, standing in shore. See Donner de bout à terre.
De bout au corps. See Abordage.
De bout au vent. See Aller de bout au vent.
DÉBOUTONNER la bonnette. See Délacer.
DÉBRIS, the effects which remain in a shipwrecked vessel. By the ordonnances of the marine, all persons who shall have found, or drawn such effects from the bottom of the sea, are to place them in safety, and in twenty-four hours afterwards, at farthest, to make proclamation thereof, under pain of being punished as felons: and by the same ordonnance, it is permitted to the proprietors of the said effects to demand them in a year and a day after such publication, upon paying the salvage-money. It is to be wished that this laudable decree were established in England.
DÉCHARGE, the act of unlading or discharging a merchant-ship.
Décharge le petit hunier, fill the fore-top-sail!
DÉCHARGEMENT. See Décharge.