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

MATAFIONS, knittles, or small robands.

MATÉ en caravelle, fitted with pole top-masts.

Maté en chandelier, masted upright. Expressed of a ship whose masts are stayed so as neither to hang forward or aft.

Maté en frégate, the bent or inclination of the masts, when they rake forward, or stoop towards the head.

Maté en fourche, or à corne, masted for a boom and gaff; as a schooner or sloop.

Maté en galere, to be masted as a galley, with only two masts without any top-mast.

Maté en semaque, masted for a sprit which crosses the sail diagonally.

MATELOT, a sailor, or mariner; a man before the mast.

MATELOTAGE, the hire, wages, or pay of seamen.

Il est un bon Matelot, he is an able seaman.