CHEMISE à feu, or SOUFRÉE, a curtain, or piece of old canvas, dipped in a composition of oil, petrol, camphire, and other combustible materials, and nailed to the planks of an enemy's ship, when it is intended to set her on fire. See FIRE-SHIP.

CHENALER, to find out a channel by the help of buoys, or of sounding, where the water is shallow.

CHENETS, a sort of iron claws used to bend the planks of a ship by fire.

CHERSONESE, a peninsula.

CHEVALET, a roller for passing the cables from one place to another.

CHEVAUCHER, to ride, or be fayed upon; a term in ship-building.

CHEVET, small cushions or bags, filled with tarred ropes, to prevent the stays from galling the masts.

CHEVET de traversin des bittes, the lining or doubling of the bits, which is employed to prevent the cable from galling them when the ship rides with a great strain.

CHEVILLE, an iron bolt, of which there are several sorts used in the construction of a ship: as, CHEVILLE à boucle, a ring-bolt.

CHEVILLE à boucles & à goupilles, a ring-bolt which is secured by a forelock.

CHEVILLE à croc, a hook-bolt for the gun-ports.

CHEVILLE à goupilles, a forelock-bolt, or bolt fitted to receive a forelock.

CHEVILLE à grille & à boucles. See GOUJON.

CHEVILLE à oeilettes d'affûut, the eye-bolts of the gun carriages.

CHEVILLE à tête de diamant, or à tête ronde, a round-headed bolt.

CHEVILLE à tête perdue, a bolt whose head is sunk into the timber where it is driven.

CHEVILLE d' affût, a gun-carriage bolt.

CHEVILLE de fer à charger le canon, langrage-shot.

CHEVILLE de pompe, the short pump-bolt, or bolt which connects the brake with the spear.

CHEVILLE de potence de pompe, a long pump-bolt, or bolt which fastens the brake to the cheeks or ears of the pump.

CHEVILLER, to bolt a ship, or drive the bolts which fasten one part to another.

CHEVILLOTS, belaying-pins, fixed in the rails of small vessels.

CHEVRE, a gin, or triangle with pullies.

CHICAMBAUT a bumkin. See BOUTE-LOF.

CHICANER, to claw off, as from a rock, lee-shore, &c.

CHICANER le vent, to ply or beat to windward. See LOUVIER.

CHIORME, or rather CHIOURME, the troop or crew of staves belonging to one row-galley, together with the volunteers who row at the oars.

CHIRURGIEN major the surgeon of ship.

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