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

YACHT, or Yac, a yacht.

YEUX de bœuf, bulls eyes, or wooden travellers; also the trucks of a parrel.

Yeux de pie. See Oeil de pie.

Z.

ZEPHIRE, or Zephir, the west wind.

ZOPISSA, or poix navale, tar. See Goudron.

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[1]. In regno Saracenorum quatuor prætores statuit, qui admiralii vocabantur. Sigebert.

[2]. Mr. Bigot de Morogues says from 4000 to 4500, and Mr. Hauksbee 5000.

[3]. “The change proposed here, of reducing the quantity of powder in all ship guns to one-third of the weight of the bullet, has for some time past been practised by the French in a much severer service, where the encreasing the velocity of the bullet could not at any time diminish its effect; the service I mean is battering in breach. For I learn, that of late years all their breaches, in the different sieges they have undertaken, have been made with this very charge, that is, their twenty four-pounders have been loaded with eight pounds of powder, and they have found, that though the penetration of the bullet is less with this charge than with a larger one, yet the other conveniences attending this smaller charge, are more than, sufficient to balance that particular.