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

VADROUILLE, a brush used to pay a ship’s bottom with tallow or stuff.

VA et vient, a span or rope extended from one place to another, whereon to draw any thing along by the means of a traveller.

VAGANS, vagrants or hovellers, who infest the sea-coast in a tempest, in expectation of plunder from some shipwrecked vessel. See Debris.

VAGUES, the waves or surges of the sea. See Lames.

VAIGRER, to fix on the planks and thick-stuff of a ship’s cieling to the timbers.

VAIGRES, ou serres, a general name for the clamps and thick-stuff used in the cieling of a ship; as,

Vaigres de fond, the thick-stuff placed next to the keel.

Vaigres d’empature, the thick-stuff placed between the floor-heads and the vaigres de fond.

Vaigres de pont, the clamps which support the ends of the beams.

Vaigres des fleurs, the thick stuff placed opposite to the floor-heads.