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

ENGRAISSEMENT, joindre du bois par Engraissement, to drive forcibly into a mortise; to fit a piece of wood so exactly, that no vacancy shall be left on any side.

ENGRENER la pompe, to pump the water out of a ship’s bottom.

ENJALER une ancre, to stock, or fix the stock upon, an anchor.

ENLACURE, the bolting of a tenon into its mortise, by boring a hole and driving a bolt through both, to unite them more securely.

ENMANCHÉ, entered or arrived, into the channel.

ENSEIGNE de vaisseau, an officer under the lieutenant, who executes his duty in his absence; also the ensign of a ship.

ENTAILLE, the rabbit or mortise by which one piece of timber is let into another.

ENTENNES, the props, or out-riggers, fixed on the side of a sheer-hulk, to support the sheers.

ENTER, to join two pieces of wood, as by scarfing, rabbiting, or placing them butt-and-butt.

ENTERRER les futailes, to stow the water-casks of a ship in the ballast.