BORDER les écoutes tout plat, to tally the sheets flat aft.

BORDER un vaisseau, to hoard or enter a ship, either in a hostile or friendly manner.

BORDER une voile, to trim a sail by the tacks and sheets.

BORDIER, lap-sided; expressed of a ship which is stronger on one side than the other.

BORDS, leeches; borders or edges of a sail, which are either sloping or perpendicular.

BORÉAL, vent BOREAL, the northern wind.

BORNAGER, a method of shoving a great boat off from the shore, in a river, by fixing one end of the setting-pole against her side, whilst the other bears upon the ground.

BOSPHORE, a streight, or narrow channel; as the Thracian Bosphorus.

BOSSAGE, a name given by shipwrights to crooked timber, fit for knees, &c.

BOSSE, a powder-flask, used by privateers, in naval engagements.

Serre-BOSSE, the shank-painter.

BOSSEMAN, or second contre maître, the boatswain's mate.

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