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

MARTEAU à dents, a claw-hammer used by ship-wrights.

MARTICLES, or lignes de trélingage, a crow-foot, or complicated span.

Marticles is also a name given by some to the furling-lines of small sails.

MARTINET, is properly the runner or tye which is fastened to the dead-eye of a crow-foot, used as a topping-lift for the mizen-yard.

Martinet is also a general name for the haliards, or tail of a crow-foot.

MASCARET, a violent eddy of the tide.

MASLES, the pintles, by which the rudder is hung upon the stern-post. See Ferrure de gouvernail.

MASSE, a large iron maul, used by ship-wrights to drive the tree-nails and bolts into the ship’s side: also a very long tiller used in some lighters.

MASULIT, a sort of Indian boat, whose sides are composed of the bark of trees, and which are calked with moss.

MAT, a mast. The principal masts of a ship are,