MACHINE à mâter, the sheers of a sheer-hulk, or other machine for masting a ship.

MACLES, nettings of the quarters or sides of a ship.

MAESTRALISER, a name given in the Mediterranean to the west variation of the magnetical needle.

MAGASIN général, a storehouse, or magazine, to contain naval stores in a dock-yard.

MAGASIN particulier, a storehouse which contains the rigging and cordage used for the king's ships, magazines, &c.

MAGASINS, the store-ships which attend on a fleet of men of war.

MAHONNE, a sort of Turkish galeasse.

FAILLE, the keys or buttons by which a bonnet is fastened to it's sail.

FAILLES, the intervals, or spaces, left between a ship's timbers.

MAILLET de calfas, a caulking mallet.

MAILLETAGE, the sheathing of a ship's bottom with scupper-nails.

MAIN avant, the order to pull on a rope hand-over-hand.

MAJOR, an officer who has the charge of mounting, regulating, and relieving the marine-guard in a ship, &c.

MAITRE, a term of distinction, applied by shipwrights to several pieces of timber which lie in the broadest part of a ship; as

MAÎTRE-banc, midship-beam, the beam upon which the extreme breadth of a ship is formed. It is situated in the midship-frame, nearly in the middle other length, serving as a standard, from whence the dimensions and proportions of the masts and yards are to be taken. See also below, MAITRE-couple.

MAÎTRE-canonnier, the master-gunner of a ship.

Second MAÎTRE canonnier, the gunner's mate.

MAITRE de chaloupe, the coxswain, or patroon of the long-boat.

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