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

Pilote côtier, or Pilote de havre, a coasting, or harbour pilot. See Lamaneur.

Pilote hardie, a daring or enterprising pilot.

PILOTER, to pilot a ship into, or out of, a harbour or river.

PINASSE, a square-sterned vessel, called in England a bark.

Pinasse de Biscaye, a Biscayan barca-longo.

PINCEAU à goudronner, a tar-brush.

PINCES de bois, a sort of curved handspikes. See Renard.

PINCER le vent. See Aller au plus pres.

PINNULE, the sight vanes of any instrument, for observing or setting a distant object at sea.

PINQUE, a pink, or narrow-sterned ship, with a flat floor.