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

Bien-Mouillé, well moored, or moored in a good birth and anchor-ground.

Vaisseau Mouillé à un ancre de flot, & un ancre de jussant, a ship moored with one anchor to the flood, and another to the ebb.

Vaisseau Mouillé entre vent & marée, a ship moored between wind and tide.

MOUILLER, or Mouiller l’ancre, to let go the anchor, to come to an anchor, or simply, to anchor.

Mouiller à la voile, to let go the anchor whilst the sails are yet abroad.

Mouiller en croupiére, to moor with a spring upon the cable, in order to cannonade a fort, &c.

Mouiller en patte d’oie, to moor with three anchors a-head, equally distant from each other, and appearing like the foot of a goose.

Mouiller l’ancre de touei, to moor with the boat, or to carry out an anchor.

Mouiller les voiles, to wet the sails; a practice usual in light winds.

Mouiller par la quille, an ironical expression to signify that a ship is fast a-ground: Our seamen then say, every nail in her bottom is an anchor.