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

VALTURE, the lashing of the sheers; or a rope employed to lash two masts together in any particular place, when they are to be used as sheers.

VARANGUAIS. See Marticles.

VARANGUES, a general name for the floor-timbers; as,

Varangues acculées, the crotches or floor-timbers afore and abaft.

Varangues demi-acculées, the floor-timbers placed between the varangues acculées and the

Varangues plates, or Varangues de fond, the flat floor-timbers placed in the middle or broadest part of a ship’s floor.

VARECH, sea-wreck. Also the wreck of a ship. See Choses de la mer.

VARIATION, the variation of the compass. See Declinaison.

Variation vaut la rout, the variation is on the weather-side, or opposite the lee-way.

VASART, oozy, or slimy, expressed of a particular bottom or soundings at sea. See Fond.