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

FOURCHETTE, a pair of sheers, or machine to mast or dismast a ship.

FORME, a wet dock.

Forme en talud, a slip, or declivity on the banks of a river, where ships are built.

FORMES de vaisseaux. See Baloires.

FORT de virer, a term amongst the French common sailors, which answers to, avast-heaving.

FORTUNE de mer, the accidents or disasters of the sea, occasioned by pirates, shallows, &c.

Fortune de vent, a tempest or violent storm, in the dialect of Provence.

Voile de Fortune, the square or lug-sail of a galley or tartane, in the Mediterranean. See Treou.

FOSSE, a creek or small haven on the sea-coast, where ships may come to anchor.

Fosse is also a place out of soundings on the edge of a bank.