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

TOURILLONS, the trunnions of any piece of ordnance.

TOURMENTE, a tempest, or great storm. See Tempete.

TOURMENTER, when expressed of a ship, implies to labour or strain violently; when spoken of timber, it denotes to warp or twist.

TOURMENTIN, a name sometimes given to the sprit-sail top-sail. See Perroquet de beaupré.

TOURNANT de mer, a whirlpool, or dangerous race in the sea.

Tournant, is also a stake or post sunk into the angles of a canal, for the convenience of warping vessels up or down.

TOURNER le bord. See Virer.

Tourner sur son ancre, to pass round the anchor; understood of a ship that, riding by a single anchor, has probably encircled the place where it lies, so as to have swept it with her cable, and made a foul anchor.

TOURNEVIRE, the voyal of the cable. See Cabestan.

TOURON, the strand of a rope, composed of a certain number of rope-yarns.