FORCE de voiles, faire FORCE de voiles, to make sail, to croud sail.

FORCER de rames, to row strongly, so as to redouble the efforts of the oars.

FORCER des voiles, to croud sail; to carry a press of sail. See also FAIRE force, &c.

FORCHETTE, a pair of sheets, or machine to mast or dismast a ship.

FORME, a wet dock.

FORME en talut, a slip, or declivity on the banks of a river, where ships are built.

FORMES de vaisseaux. See BALOIRES.

FORT de virer, a term amongst the French common sailors, which answers to, avast-heaving.

FORTUNE de mer, a name given to any unfortunate accidents or disasters of the sea.

FORTUNE de vent, a tempest or violent storm, in the dialect of Provence.

Voile de FORTUNE, the square or lug-sail of a galley or tartane, in the Mediterranean. See TREOU.

FOSSE, a creek or small haven on the sea-coast, where ships may come to anchor.

FOSSE is also a place out of soundings on the edge of a bank.

FOSSE au lion, the boatswain's store-room in the fore part of a ship.

FOSSE aux cables, the cable-stage, or cable tier, in the orlop, &c.

FOSSE aux mâts, a mast-pond, or place where the masts are kept afloat in salt water, in a dock-yard.

FOUETTER, to strike or flap back against the mast; expressed of the sails of a ship, when they are first taken aback.

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