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

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EAU changée, discoloured water, or water whose colour is changed by approaching the shore, or otherwise.

Eau du vaisseau. See Sillage.

Eau haute, high-water. See Haute-marée.

Eau maigre, or Maigre-eau, shoal-water. This phrase is peculiar to the common sailors.

Eau plate & courtoise, very smooth water; the state of the water in a dead calm.

Eau premiere & Eau seconde, the first and second floods after a neap-tide.

EAUX fermées, water enclosed with ice.

Eaux ouvertes, an open channel, after the ice has melted or separated.

EBAROUI, abounding with shakes or rents; expressed of a ship whose planks are split, and her seams opened, by the sun or wind, for want of being wetted, or sluiced over with water, in the evenings and mornings.