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

SAMEQUIN, a sort of Turkish merchant-ship.

SAMOREUX, a very long and flat-bottomed lumber-barge or lighter, for carrying masts and long planks on the Rhine, &c.

Navire qui a SANCI sous ses amarres, a ship which has foundered at her anchors.

SANCIR, to sink, or founder at sea.

SANDALE, a sort of lighter used in the Levant.

SANGLES, mats, or small panches formed of spun-yarn.

SAPINETTES, barnicles, a sort of shell-fish, that adhere to a ship’s bottom which has been long at sea. See Cravan.

SARANGOUSTI, a sort of gum, used instead of pitch to pay the seams of a ship in the East-Indies.

SART, sea-weed, wreck, or tangles; the alga-marina.

SARTIE, the rigging of a ship, in the dialect of Provence.