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

Which we may thus translate:

The beaks encounter with a thundering sound,

Then reeling, from the mutual shock rebound.

The javelins fly! an iron tempest sweeps

The darken’d air, and covers all the deeps!

[15].

Seque tenent remis toto stetit æquore bellum.

Jam non excussis torquentur tela lacertis

Nec longinqua cadunt jaculato vulnera ferro;

Miscenturque manus, navali plurima bello;