ESTROPES, a general name for block-strops.

ESTROPES d'affût. See ERSES.

ESTROPES des marche-pieds, the stirrups of the horses.

ÉTA BLI sur ses amarres, settled, moored, or stationed in a port.

ÉTAI, the stay of a mast.

ÉTAI du grand mât, or grand étai, the main-stay.

ÉTAI du grand mât de hune, the main top-mast-stay.

ÉTAI du grand perroquet, the main-top-gallant-stay.

ÉTAI du mât d'artimon, the mizen-stay.

ÉTAI du mât de hune d'avant, the fore-top-mast-stay.

ÉTAI du misaine, or du ma/t de misaine, the fore stay.

ÉTAI de perroquet d'artimon, or de foule, the mizen-top-mast-stay.

ÉTAI de voile d' étai, a stay-sail-stay.

Faux-ÉTAI, a preventer-stay.

ETALER, to anchor during the interval of a contrary tide, in a foul wind; with intent to pursue the course the next favourable tide.

ETALINGUE, the clinch of a cable, or that part which is bent to the anchor.

ETALINGUER, to clinch the cable to it's anchor.

ETAMBOT, the stern-post of a ship.

ETAMBRAIES, the holes or scuttles in a ship's decks, through which the masts are let down; also the partners of the mast.

ETAMINE, buntine; the cloth of which a ship's colours are made.

ETANCHER, to stop a leak; also to pump the water out of a ship.

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