CLAN is also a sort of breast-hook in a large lighter.

CLAPET de pompe, the clapper of a pump-box.

CLAPETS, leathern flaps nailed on the outside of the scuppers, instead of scupper-hoses.

CLASSE, a division of pilots, gunners, seamen, &c. engaged to serve in any naval armament during a limited time, after which they are relieved by another division sent from the shore.

CLAVETTE, or GOUPILLE, a forelock.

CLEF. See CHEF.

CLEF de beaupré, or BARROT de coltis, the collar-beam, which is raised a little above the second deck, to fortify the bowsprit.

CLEF de pierrier, the forelock of a pedrero or swivel-gun.

CLEF de pompe. See CHEVILLE de potence.

CLEF de ton au mât, or CLEF de mât de hune, the iron or wooden fid of a topmast.

CLEES de guindas, the cheeks of the windlas.

CLERC de guet, the clerk who assembles and musters the militia appointed to guard the sea-coast.

CLERCS de sacretaire, or de gresse de l'amirauté, the messengers of the admiralty.

CLINCAR, a sort of flat-bottomed clinker-built pram, or lighter, of Sweden and Denmark.

CLOISSON, a range of stanchions used to support the bulk-heads, or partitions, which separate one cabin from another.

CLOPOTEUSE, turbulent or agitated; an epithet given to the sea when it runs high.

CLOU, an iron spike, or nail, of any size.

CLOUS à river, a rivet, or riveting-nail to be clenched at both ends.

CLOUS des sabords, doubling-nails, to line the gun-ports.

CO-BOURGEOIS, a copartner in, or part-owner of, a ship.

COCHES a' affût de bord, the notches or steps of the carriage of a ship-cannon.

COEFÉE, laid aback.

Mettre tout à COEFFEE, to lay all flat aback.

COEFFER, to back a sail, to lay it to the mast.

COFFRE à feu, a powder-chest, fixed on the deck or side of a ship, to be discharged upon a boarding enemy.

COFFRE à gargousses, a cartridge chest, which contains the filled cartridges in a ship's magazine.

COFFRE de bord, a sea-chest, a tailor's chest.

COINS d'arrimage, the quoins or coins used in the stowage of a ship's hold, &c.

COINS de chantier, the wedges driven between the blocks and the keel, when a ship is building.

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