GRÉER, to rig a ship, or fit her with rigging, blocks, yards, sails, &c.

GRELIN, a haufer, or stream cable.

GRENADE à main, a grenade; also a powder-flask.

GRENIER, the floor-cieling of a ship, or a ceiling which reaches only from the kelson to the floor heads.

Charger en GRENIER. See CHARGER, &c.

GREVE, a flat, low, and sandy shore.

GRIBANE, a small vessel navigated on the coast of Normandy, and carrying a main-mast and fore-mast, without any tops.

GRIGNON, sea bread called rusks, common in Holland and Denmark.

GRIP, a small vessel resembling a schooner or shallop.

GROS d'un vaisseau, the breadth, or extreme breadth of a ship.

GROS temps, a hard gale of wind; blowing weather; foul or squally weather.

GROSSE avanture, bottomry.

GRUE, a crane with a wheel, used on wharfs and keys.

GUIRLANDES, See GUIRLANDE.

GUET de la mer. See GARDES des côtes.

GUI, the main-boom of a sloop; also the fore-boom of a schooner.

GUINDAGE, the act of hoisting with tackles in general, but more particularly when they are applied to the lading or unlading of a ship; it also implies the money paid to those who are employed in such exercises.

GUINDAGES likewise imply the tackles, and other machines used in lading, &c.

GUINDANT d'un pavillon, the hoist OR heighth of an ensign or flag.

GUINDAS, the windlass. See VIREVAUT.

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