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

ECOUTES, the sheets of a sail.

Ecoute de bonette en étui, the tack or guy of a studding-sail boom.

Avoir les Ecoutes largues, to sail with a flowing sheet.

Larguer ou filer l’Ecoute, to ease off the sheet.

Border les Ecoutes, to haul aft the sheets.

Border plat les Ecoutes, to haul the sheets flat aft, or close aft.

ECOUTILLE qui s’emboîte, a hatchway with a scuttle which covers its border,

ECOUTILLES, the hatchways and scuttles in a ship’s deck.

Ecoutilles à huit pans, Ecoutilles du mât, the holes and partners of the mast.

ECOUTILLON, a scuttle, or small hatchway; also its cover.