A TRANSLATION OF THE PHRASES AND TERMS OF ART IN THE FRENCH MARINE. (continued 4)

VENTER, to blow or spring up; understood of the wind.

VENTILATEUR, a ventilator used at sea.

VERBOQUET, a guy used by ship-wrights to steddy a piece of timber which they are erecting in a ship’s frame.

VERGE de girouette, the spindle of the vane at any mast-head.

Verge de l’ancre, the arm of an anchor.

Verge de pompe, a pump-spear. See also Barre de pompe.

VERGUE, the yard of any principal sail which traverses the mast at right angles.

Vergue à corne. See Corne de vergue.

Vergue de foule, the cross-jack-yard.

Vergue en boute dehors, the main-boom of a sloop-rigged, or schooner-rigged vessel.

Vergue traversée, the sprit which traverses a boat’s sail diagonally.

VERIN, an instrument nearly similar to a jack-screw, and used occasionally to launch a ship from the stocks.

VEUE, or Vue, etre à vue, avoir la vue, to be in sight of; to make or discover at sea, as the land, or some distant object. See Non-vue.

Veue par vue, & cours par cours, sailing by the bearings, or distances of the land, on the sea-coast.

VIBORD, the quick-work, or that part of a ship’s side which is comprehended between the drift-rails and the waist-rail.

VICE-Amiral, the vice-admiral of France.

VICTUAILLES, the provisions used for the subsistence of the ship’s crew at sea, &c.

VICTUAILLEUR, a contractor, or agent-victualler.

VIF, alive, busy, all in motion; an epithet applied to a wharf, dock, or slip, where the artificers are all at work on the shipping.

Vif de l’eau, or haute marée, high water.

VIGIE, a lurking rock, or reef; a rock under the surface of the water.

VIGIER, to look out, or watch upon deck, or at the mast-head, &c.

Vigier une flotte, to dodge, or watch the motions of a fleet.

VIGOTS de racage. See Bigots.

VINDAS, a sort of moveable capstern; also a windlass. See Virevaut.

VIRAGE, the act of heaving up any weighty body by a crab or capstern.

VIRER, to overset.

Virer au cabestan, to heave the capstern, or heave at the capstern.

Virer de bord, to go about, or put about-ship.

Virer vent arriere, to veer, or wear.

Virer vent devant, to tack, or put about head-to-wind.

VIREVAUT, the windlass of a ship or boat.

VIROLE, a little iron ring placed on the small end of a bolt which is driven through any part of a ship’s decks or sides; it is used to prevent the fore-lock from cutting the wood.

VIROLET. See Moulinet.

VIRURE, a streak of planks continued from the stem to the stern-post.

Virure, is also the sheer of any plank in the ship’s side.

VISITE de vaisseau, an examination of the cargo of a ship by the officers of the revenue.

VISITEUR, an officer resembling our tide-surveyors of the customs.

VITTES de gouvernail. See Ferrure.

VITTONIERES. See Anguilleres.

VIVIER, a fishing-boat, furnished with a well filled with water amid-ships, wherein to keep the fish alive.

VIVRES. See Victuailles.

UN, deux, trois, an exclamation, or song, used by seamen when hauling the bowlines, the greatest effort being made at the last word. English sailors, in the same manner, call out on this occasion—haul-in—haul-two—haul-belay!

VOGUE, the rowing of a galley; the movement or course of a galley rowed with oars.

Vogue-avant, the rower who holds the handle of an oar and gives the stroke.

VOGUER, to row, or give head-way to a galley by rowing.

VOILE, a sail; also a ship discovered at a distance.

Avec les quatre corps de Voiles, under the courses and top-sails.

Faire toutes Voiles blanches, to cruise as a pirate; to make all fish that comes to the net.

Forcer de Voiles, to croud sail. See Forcer.

Ce vaisseau porte la Voile comme un rocher, the ship carries her sail as stiff as a church, or without seeming to heel.

Les Voiles sur les cargues, the sails clewed up, or hauled up in the brails.

Les Voiles sur le mât, the sails laid to the mast, or aback. See Coeffé.

Régler les Voiles, to regulate or appoint what sail is to be carried, in order to keep company in a fleet.

Toutes Voiles hors, all sails set, all sails out, or standing.

Les Voiles au sec, sails loosed, to dry in the sun or wind.

Les Voiles fouettent le mât, the sails beat against the mast, as when first taken aback.

Voile Angloise, a boat’s sail with a diagonal sprit.

Voile d’eau, a sort of water-sail used by the Dutch.

Voile défoncée, a sail split or rent asunder in the bunt or middle.

Voile de fortune. See Treou.

Voile déralinguée, a sail blown or torn from the bolt-rope.

Voile en banniere, a sail, whose sheets being slackened or flown in a storm, flies loose, and flutters in the wind like a flag or ensign.

Voile en pantenne, a sail shivering in the wind, for want of being properly trimmed.

Voile enverguée, a sail bent to its yard.

Voile latine, or Voile à oreille de lievre. See Latine.

Voile quarrée, a square sail, or sail nearly square; such as are the courses, top-sails, and top-gallant-sails of all ships.

Voiles basses, or basses Voiles, the courses. See Pacfi.

Voiles de l’arriere, the after-sails.

Voiles de l’avant, the head-sails.

Voiles d’étai, the stay-sails. See Étai.

VOILERIE, a sail-loft, or place where sails are formed.

VOILIER, a sail-maker.

Bon Voilier, or mauvais Voilier, when expressed of a ship, implies a good or bad sailer, or one that sails swiftly or slowly.

VOILURE, the trim of the sails; also a complete suit of sails, with their furniture.

Voilure, a general name for all sorts of sails belonging to a ship.

Meme Voilure, the same sail set; expressed of two ships in company, which carry the same quantity and number of sails.

Regler sa Voilure, to regulate the quantity of sail to be carried in order to keep company with some other ship or ships.

Toute la Voilure de l’avant, all the head-sails.

Toute la Voilure de l’arriere, all the after-sails.

VOIR l’une par l’autre. See Ouvrier & tenir.

Voir par proue, to see or discover, a-head of the ship.

Donner la VOIX, to sing out; as in hauling, hoisting, heaving, &c.

VOLÉE, a platoon, or limited number of great guns in a broad-side, fired at once in a sea-fight.

VOLET, a little sea compass, used in a long-boat or cutter.

VOLONTAIRES, volunteers in a ship of war.

VOLTE, a particular course or route; also the movement of bearing away, or hauling the wind, to change the course, or bring the broad-side to bear upon an enemy.

VOUTE, or Voutis, the upper-counter of a ship, upon which the ecusson is placed.

VOYAGES de long cours, a long voyage, as those to China, or the Indies.

URETAC, a fore-tack-tackle, or preventer fore-tack.

VRILLE, a wimble, or drill, used by ship-wrights, &c. to bore holes.

US & coutumes de la mer, the usages and customs of the sea, which are partly regulated by the laws of Oleron.

USANCE, the agreement, or contract, made between the master, the owner, and freighters of a ship. See also the preceding article.

UTENSILS du canon, a general name for all the instruments used in charging and firing a cannon, as the rammer, the ladle, the linstoc, the spunge, &c.

UVOLFE, a dangerous whirl-pool, or race, known by the name of the Wolf, between two islands on the coast of Norway.

W.

WATREGANS, pronounced Outregans, a sort of canals or ditches, filled with water, which are usually navigable for boats and small-craft.

WOLFE, or Vulfe, a whirl-pool, or race, on the coast of Norway.

Y.

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.