Pousse la BARRE à arriver, no nearer, put the helm a-weather.

Pousse la BARRE à venir au vent, luff or keep your luff.

BARRE de pompe, the pump-spear.

BARRE de pont, the deck-transom, parallel to the wing-transom.

BARRER, to secure ; as, BARRER un port, to secure or defend a harbour, by fixing a boom across the mouth of it.

BARRES, the booms or chains fixed across

a harbour, to secure it from the assaults

of an enemy. See ESTACCADE.

BARRES de cabestan, the bars of the crab or capstern.

BARRES de contre-arcasse, or sous Barres d'arcasse, the lower transoms.

BARRES d'écoutille, the hatch-bars.

BARRES de hune, barreaux, or tisseaux, the frames of the cross-trees and trestle-trees.

BARRES de panneaux d'écoutille, the carlings, or ledges placed athwart under the covers of the hatchways.

BARRES de porte, the gun-port bars, by which their covers are fastened in.

BARRES de virevaut, the hand-specs, or bars of a windlass.

BARRILLARD. See BARILLARD.

BARROTE, full to the beams; an epithet

given to a vessel which is laden up to the

beams of her deck. Whence

BARROTS, the beams of the higher decks.

BARROTINS, ledges, or small spars,

placed between the beams.

BARROTINS de caillebotis, ledges of the gratings.

BARROTINS d'écoutilles, the spurs of the beams, or the pieces which are joined to the beams, to fortify the deck a-breast of the hatchways.

BAS de foie, iron garters; a cant-term implying bilboes or fetters.

BAS le pavilion, the orders to haul down the colours.

BASBORD, the larboard or left side of a ship.

Vaisseau de BASBORD, a low built vessel, whose deck extends not throughout her whole length.

BASBORD tout, hard a-port; the order to put the helm close to the larboard side.

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