CROISER à la lame. See DE BOUT à la lame.

CROISETTE, the pin or bolt used as a fid to any flag-staff.

CROISEUR, a cruiser; a vessel employed to guard a coast; also a pirate, or sea-rover.

CROISEURS, or vaisseaux en croissere, ships cruising in an appointed station or latitude.

CROISIERE, a rendezvous or latitude for cruisers.

CROITRE, to rise or flow; expressed of the tide.

CROIX sur les cables, a cross in the hawfe.

CRONE, a wheel-crane, built on a wharf.

CROQUER, to hook or grapple any thing.

CROQUET le croc de palan, to hook the cat to the anchor.

CROUCHANTS, the crochets, or floor-timbers fore and aft in a boat.

CROULER. See RUOLER.

CROULER un bâtiment, to shake a ship by jumping on her decks, in order to launch her from the stocks.

CROUPIARDER. See MOUILLEE en croupiere.

CROUPIAT. See EMBOSSURE.

CROUPIERE, or CROUPIAS, a stern-fast; a stern cable or hawser.

CUEILLE, one of the cloths of a sail.

CUEILLETTE, a measure or weight of any merchandise, which is equal to a quintal, or 100 lb.

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