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

SYRTES, shifting-sands, quick-sands, or shelves.

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TABERNACLE, or Tendelet, a place under the awning of a row-galley, where the captain sits to give his orders.

TABLEAU, the compartment, whereon the name is engraved or painted on the stern of a Dutch flight. See Ecusson.

TABLETTE, the rising-staff; a form, or scale, used by shipwrights when erecting the frames of the timbers.

TABOURIN, the fore-castle of a galley, with the space underneath it, where the artillery are loaded and fired. See Covert de l’iscosele.

TAILLE-mer, or gorgere, the lower part of a ship’s cut-water, or of the prow in a galley.

TAILLES de fond, & Tailles de point. See Cargues fond, & Cargues-point.

TAINS. See Tins.

TALINGUER, or Etalinguer, to bend the cable to the anchor-ring.