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

GRELIN, a hauser, or stream-cable.

GRENADE à main, a grenade of iron or glass.

GRENIER, the floor-cieling of a ship, or a cieling which reaches only from the kelson to the floor-heads.

Charger en Grenier. See Charger, &c.

GREVE, a flat, low, and sandy shore.

GRIBANE, a small vessel navigated on the coast of Normandy, and carrying a main-mast and fore-mast, without any tops.

GRIGNON, sea-bread called rusks, common in Holland and Denmark.

GRIP, a small vessel resembling a schooner or shallop.

GROS d’un vaisseau, the breadth, or extreme breadth of a ship.

Gros temps, a hard gale of wind, blowing weather, foul or squally weather.