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

Marcher en colonne, to sail in a line, or column.

MARÉAGE, the hire or pay of a sailor for any particular voyage.

MARÉES, the tides. See Flux & reflux.

Mortes Marées, neap-tides, or dead-neap.

Marées qui portent au vent, a wind-tide, or tide which runs to windward.

Marées & contre-marées, tide and half-tide.

La MARÉE est haut, it is high-water.

Marée qui soutiennent, a tide which counteracts the wind, with regard to a ship’s course, enabling her to turn to windward better.

MARGOUILLET, a bull’s eye, or wooden traveller.

MARGUERITES, a name given to jiggers, or such sort of purchases, used to pull a rope with greater effort.