CORNET de mât, a step and partners peculiar to the masts of some small veffels, being open at the after-part, so that the mast may occasionally be lowered over the stern. See CARLINGUE.

CORNETTE, a broad pendent, displayed at the mast-head of a commodore.

CORPS de bataille, the center division of a fleet of ships of war.

CORPS de garde d'un vaisseau, the half-deck; that part of a ship which is under the quarterback and before the bulk head of the after-steerage.

CORPS de pompe, the chamber of a pump.

CORPS d'un vaisseau, the hull of a ship, without her rigging.

CORRECTIONS, the methods of correcting the errors of a dead reckoning, by observations and allowances, as prescribed by the rules of navigation.

CORSAIRE, a privateer; also a pirate.

CORVETTE, a sloop of war.

COSSE, a thimble; also a bull's eye, or traveller. See MARGOUILLET.

COTE, the sea coast, the shore.

COTE en écore, a bluff or bold shore.

COTE qui court nord-sud, or est-ouest, a coast which lies north and south, or east and west.

COTE saine, a safe coast, where there is neither rocks or sand-banks, that may render the access dangerous to shipping.

Donner à la COTE, ranger la COTE. See DONNER and RANGER.

COTE du vaisseau, the side of a ship.

Presenter le CÔTÉ, mettre le CÔTÉ du vaisseau en travers, to bring the broad-side to bear upon an enemy. See EFFACER.

Mettre un vaisseau sur le COTÉ, to lay a ship on the careen. See ABATTRE.

Faux-CÔTÉ, lap-fided.

COTÉ du vent, the weather-fide; to windward.

COTE sous le vent, to leeward; the lee-side.

COTES, or MEMBRES, d'un vaisseau, the timbers, or ribs of a ship, from the keel, upwards.

COTIER, a coaster, or coasting vessel.

COTONNINE, a species of thick sail-cloth, used in gallies, and vessels of the Levant: it is formed by a mixture of hemp and cotton, the woof being of the former, and the warp of the latter.

COTONS, fishes of the mast. See JUMELLE.

COTTIMO, a duty or exaction of so much per cent, which the consuls, by order of their courts, or by the consent of merchants, demand of the shipping of their nation, when they enter a port where such consuls are established.

COUBAIS, a barge or galley of Japan, greatly ornamented, and rowed with forty oars.

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