AVANT, forward, afore, ahead.

Etre de l'AVANT, sa mettre de l'AVANT, to be in the van of a fleet.

Le vaisseau est trop sur l'AVANT, the vessel is too much by the head.

AVANTAGE, the head, with its cutwater or prow. See EPERON.

AVANTAGE du vent, to-windward of some other ship.

AVANT-GARDE, the van of a fleet of vessels of war.

AVARIE, the damage or loss which a ship may have sustained, by accidents or bad weather, in her voyage; also the duty paid for anchoring in a port.

AVASTE, avast.

AVAU l'eau, to sil with the tide, to tide it up or down a river.

AUBAÉ TRIERES, a sort of ballustrade erected on the sides of a row-galley, to support the rails of the gang-way, &c.

AUBIER, the sap of timber.

AUBINET, or Saint AUBINET, No man's land.

AUGE à goudron, a tar-bucket.

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