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

ECLAIRCIE, a clear spot in a cloudy sky. See Clairon.

ECLAT de bois, a splinter, or chip, torn from any piece of timber, by the force of a cannon-ball or by the stroke of an ax.

ECLUSE, a sluice, or dam.

ECOLE, the school, or academy, in a dock-yard, where navigation, arithmetic, and fortification are taught.

ECOPE, a boat’s scoop, or skeet, to throw out the water in her bottom.

ECORE, the edge or extremity of a sand-bank. See Côte.

ECORES, are also the shores or props which sustain a ship in dock, or on the stocks, when they are repairing or building her. See Accores.

ECOTARD. See Porte-haubans.

ECOUETS, the tacks of the main-sail and fore-sail.

ECOUPE, or Ecoupée, a swab. See Fauber.