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

SEJOUR, the space of time that a ship remains in any port at which she touches in the course of a voyage.

SELLE de calfat, a calking-box, which contains the instruments and materials used in calking a ship.

SEMAQUE, or Semale, a smack or fishing sloop.

SEMELLES, or Derives, lee-boards.

SENAU, a snow; also a small Flemish vessel rigged like a smack.

SENTINELLE de chaloupe, the keeper of the long-boat.

SEP de drisse, the knights, or knight-heads of the jears, with their sheaves: these machines are now entirely disused in English ships of war.

SERGENT, a wraining bolt, to bend a ship’s planks into their places. See Antoit.

SERRAGE, ou Serres de vaisseau, a general name for those planks of a ship which are called thick-stuff by our ship-wrights.

Faux Serrage, loose planks, laid occasionally as a platform in a ship’s floor when she has no ceiling.