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A TRANSLATION OF French SEA-TERMS and PHRASES: L
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A TRANSLATION OF French SEA-TERMS and PHRASES: L
LABOURER, to raise, or harrow the surface of the ground with the ship's keel, in passing over a shallow.
L'ancre LABOURE, the anchor comes home, shifts, or loosens from it's hold.
LAC, a great lake of fresh water.
LAGUE d'un vaisseau, the path, track, or wake of a ship. See SILLAGE.
BAISSES & relais, a sort of bank thrown up by the waves of the sea, upon any coast.
LAMANAGE, coasting pilotage, or the act of piloting a vessel into, or out of any harbour or river.
LAMANEUR, a harbour or river pilot.
LAMES de la mer, the waves or billows of the sea.
La LAME vient de l'avant, the sea corner a-head.
La LAME vient de l'arriere, the sea corner astern, the sea follows the ship.
La LAME prend par le travers, the sea strikes the ship upon the broadside; expressed of a ship when she lies in the trough of the sea.
Courir au devant de la LAME, to scud before the sea.
LAMPES d'habitacle, the lamps of the binacle.
CAMPION, a small lamp, used to enter the ship's magazine.
LANCER, to sheer or yaw to the right or left of the ship's course.
LANCER un vaisseau à l'eau, to launch a ship from the stocks into the water.
LANCER une manoeuvre, to belay a rope to a cleat, or timber-head.
LANGUE de voile, the goring of a sail, or that part which is next to the leech.
LANTERNE à gargousses, a cartridge-case, to carry the cartridges from the ship's magazine to the artillery, in the time of battle.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 377, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1663.html