BASE des sabords, the plank between the lower edges of the gun-ports and the wale.

BAS-FONT, a shoal or shallow.

BASSE, or BATTURE, a ridge of rocks, sand-banks, &c. with breakers.

BASSE eau, low-water; the last of the ebb.

BASSES voiles, the courses, or principal lower sails of a ship, viz. main-sail, fore-sail, and mizen; and sometimes mizen stay-sail and fore-sail.

BASSIN, a basin, or bason; also a small harbour within a larger one.

BASTARD de racage, the parrel-rope.

BASTARDE, the largest sail of a galley, which is only carried in fair weather and light winds.

BASTARDES, or BATARDELLES, square-sterned row-gallies.

BASTINGAGE, painted quarter-cloths, or waist-cloths; also the quarter nettings, &c.

BASTUDE, a peculiar sort of fishing-net.

BATAILLE navale, a general or particular sea-sight.

BATARDEAU, a sort of dam.

BATAYOLLES, the quarter stanchions, or the stanchions which support the rails of the waist and quarter.

BATAYOLETTES, small stanchions, used to sustain the awnings.

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