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

Donner vent devant, to throw a ship up in the wind, or in stays; to bring the wind ahead, by putting the helm a-lee.

Donner un grand hunier, to spare a main top-sail to some other ship in company; implying, that such ship sails slower by as much, as the force of a main-top-sail assists her velocity.

DONNEUR à la grosse, the insurer of a ship and her cargo.

DORER un vaisseau, to pay a ship’s bottom. See Espalmer.

DORMANTE, l’eau Dormante, standing water, or water where no tide runs.

DORMANT, the standing part of a tackle, brace, or other running rope.

Bateau fait à Dos d’ane, a sharp-bottomed boat.

DOU est la navire? whence came the ship? where belongs the ship to?

DOUBLAGE, the sheathing applied to the bottom of a ship, to preserve her.

DOUBLE d’une manœuvre, the bight of a rope. See Balant.