MARGUERITES, a name given to jiggers, or such sort of purchases, used to pull a rope with greater effort.

Faire-MARGUERITE, to clap a messenger on the cable, when the anchor cannot be purchased by the voyol.

MARIN, a sea-faring man of any denomination.

MARINE implies in general the knowledge of maritime affairs: also the persons employed in the sea-fervice, &c.

Gens de MARINE, Seamen, fishermen, &c.

Officiers de MARINE, sea-officers.

MARINIER, a name generally given to sailors; but more particularly to lighter-men.

MARITIME, marine, of, or belonging to, the sea.

Batteaux MARNOIS, a yacht, hoy, or smack, employed on the rivers of Marne and Seine.

BARQUES, the sea-marks observed by the pilots upon any coast; as mountains, spires, windmills, &c.

MARSILIANE, a square-sterned ship, navigated on the gulph of Venice, and along the coasts of Dalmatia. They are of several sizes, the largest carrying about 700 tons.

MARSOUINS, a name given to the stemson forward, and to the false-post abaft.

MANTEAU à dents, a claw-hammer used by shipwrights.

MARTICLES, or lignes de trélingage, a crow-foot, or complicated span.

MARTICLES is also a name given by some to the furling lines of small sails.

MARTINET, is properly the runner or tye which is fastened to the dead-eye of a crow foot, formerly used as a topping-lift for the mizen-yard.

MARTINET is also a general name for the haliards, or tracing-line of a crow-foot.

MASCARET, a violent eddy of the tide.

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