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

ENTRÉE d’une riviere. See Embouchure.

ENTREMISES, small wedges, or chocks, placed between the whelps of a capstern, to keep them firm in their places.

ENTREPOT, a commercial harbour, where a magazine or storehouse is established, for the reception and exportation of goods; also a factory, or society of merchants, in a trading sea-port.

ENTREPRENEUR, a contractor for building and furnishing a ship, completely fitted according to stated dimensions.

ENTRER dans le port, to sail into the harbour.

ENTRE SABORDS, the planks which form the intervals between the ports of a ship’s side.

ENTRE-TOISE, the transoms of a gun-carriage, used at sea.

ENVERGUER, to bend a sail to its yard: this phrase is also frequently used for bending a stay-sail to its stay.

ENVERGURE, the dimensions of the sails with regard to their extent upon the yards: hence une grande Envergure, implies very square sails.

ENVOIE, the order to the helmsman to put the helm a-lee, in order to bring the ship head to wind.