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

Tenir un bras, to brace, or haul in the brace of, a yard.

Tenir une manœuvre, to make fast, or belay a rope.

Tenir, or voir une terre. See Ouvrir.

TENON, a tenant, or end of a piece of timber let into a mortise.

Tenon à queüe d’aronde, a pivot, or tenant, formed like the spindle of a capstern.

Tenon de l’étambot, the tenant on the heel of the stern-post which is let into the keel.

Tenon de mât. See Thon de mât.

TENONS de l’ancre, the nuts of an anchor.

TENUE, the gripe or hold which an anchor has of the ground where it is sunk. See Fond de bon tenue.

TERMES, the quarter-pieces of a ship, by which the side is terminated abaft.