ALLER entre deux écoutes, to sail right afore the wind, or with both sheets aft.

ALLER vent largue, to sail large, or with a large wind.

ALLER terre à terre, to coast, or sail along shore.

ALLONGE, a futtock, a general name given to the futtock timbers. See COUPLE and VARANGUE.

ALLONGE de revers, a top-timber.

ALLONGER un vaisseau, to lay a ship along-side of another.

ALLONGER le cable, to haul up a range of the cable upon deck.

ALLONGER le vergue de civadiere, to get the spritsail-yard fore and aft under the bow-sprit.

ALLONGER la terre, to coast, or sail along-shore.

ALMADIE, a small African canoe, formed of the bark of a tree.

AMARQUE, the beacon, or buoy, of a shoal, not, or sand-bank.

AMARRAGE, the ground-tackling, or furniture for mooring a ship.

Ligne d' AMARRAGE, a seising or lashing.

AMARRE, the order to fasten or belay a rope.

AMARRE de bout, the head-fast; the head-cable, or hawser with it's anchor.

AMARRER, to make fast, seize, or belay.

AMATELOTER, to mess together, to associate as comrades or mess-mates.

AME d'un grand cordage, the middle strand of a four-stranded rope.

AMENER, to lower or strike. Hence

AMENE, the order to strike or lower away.

AMENER une terre, to make the land, &c.

AMIRAL, Admiral. Hence

AMIRAUTÉ, the admiralty.

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