JONCTION de deux flotes, ou de deux armée navales, the conjunction of two fleets of ships of war, or merchantmen.

JONQUE, a Chinese junk.

JOTTES, the fore-part of a ship's bow, contained between the cat-head and the stem.

JOTTEREAUX, the cheeks of the head.

JOTTEREAU DE mât, the cheeks of the mast.

JOUER le gouvernail, to play the helm, or traverse it from side to side, as in light winds.

JOUER, to fetch way; as,

Le mât JOUE, the mast fetches way.

JOUES de virevaut, the cheeks of the windlass.

JOUETS, certain clamps, or plates of iron, used to prevent the bolt-heads from cutting the timber into which they are driven; as,

JOUETS de pompe, the iron clamps nailed on the cheeks or ears of the pump, thro' which the bolts are introduced.

JOUETS de sep de drisse, plates of iron nailed on the knight-heads of the jears, to preserve them from the iron pins of the jear-block.

JOUR, a light-port; also the interval left between any two pieces of timber, to prevent them from chasing each other.

JOURS. See SECOURS.

JUMELLER un mât, to fish a mast, or fasten fishes upon it.

JUMELLES, the fishes of the lower mast.

JUSSANT, the ebb-tide.

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