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

Florer un vaisseau, or lui donner les Fleurs, to pay a ship’s bottom; to give her a clean bottom by careening, &c.

FLOT, Flots, the surge or waves of the sea.

Abandonner un vaisseau à la merci des Flots, to let a ship drive at the mercy of the waves and winds.

FLOT, the flood-tide.

Demi-Flot, half-flood.

Il y à Flot, the tide flows, it is flowing water.

Etre à Flot, to float, to be afloat upon the water.

Ligne de FLOTTAISON, a line described on the bottom of a ship, by the surface of the water in which she floats.

FLOTTE, a fleet of ships.

FLOTTER, to swim or float upon the surface of the water.