APPROCHER du vent. See ALLER à la bouline.

AQUE, or ACQUE, a sort of flat-bottomed lighter employed on the Rhine.

ARAIGNÉES, the crow-feet of the tops.

ARAMBER. See ACCROCHER.

ARBALETE, a cross-staff or sore-staff.

ARBALETRIERE, a platform or gangway, on which the soldiers stand to fire their

musquetry in a row-galley.

ARBORER un mât, to step, or set up a mast; to get any mast an-end.

ARBORER un pavilion, to hoist and display a flag or ensign.

ARBRE. See MÂT.

ARC, or ligne courbe de l' éperon, the curve of the prow or cut-water.

ARCANE, a sort of red chalk or oker, used by shipwrights in France, to mark the timber in hewing or forming it.

ARCASSE, the stern of a ship or counter; also the shell of a block.

ARCBOUTANT, a spar or small mast; more particularly, a boom to extend the bottom of a studding-sail, square-sail, or driver, See BOUTE DEHORS.

ARCBOUTANT d'échafaud, any prop or shore of a scaffold used in ship-building.

ARCEAUX, a name formerly given to the rails of the head. See LISSE de poulaine.

ARCENAL de marine, a royal dock-yard, together with its warren or gun-wharf.

ARCHE, a thin covering of lath or shingle, and sometimes of rope, which cases the

ship's pump like a sheath, to preserve and keep it tight.

ARCHIPOMPE, the pump-well.

ARCHITECTURE navale, the art of ship-building.

ARDENT, a corposant, or meteor, often seen at sea in a storm. See FEU St. Elme.

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