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

PLATE-bands d’assuts, the clamps of a gun-carriage, which are used to confine the trunnions therein.

Plate-forme de l’éperon, the platform or grating within the rails of the head.

PLATE-formes, an assemblage of oak-planks, forming a part of the deck, near the side of a ship of war, whereon the cannons rest.

PLATINES de lumiere, the aprons of the cannons.

PLI de cables, a fake of the cable.

Filer un Pli de cable, to veer away one fake of the cable.

Vaisseau qui Plie le côté, a crank ship.

PLIER, to bend or supple the planks of a ship by heat and moisture.

Plier le côté, to lie over in the water, to heel extremely when under sail.

Plier le pavillon, Plier les voiles, to gather up the fly of the ensign, or furl the sails.