PELLES, corn.shovels, or ballast.shovels, used in trimming a ship's hold.

PENDANT, or FLAMME. See FLAMME.

PENDEUR, or PENDOUR, the pendent of any tackle, runner, &c.

PENDOUR de caliorne, the winding tackle.pendent.

PENDOURS de balancines, the spans of the lifts.

PENDOURS de bras, the brace.pendents at the yard.arms.

PENES, pitch.mops. See BATON à vadel.

PENNE, the peek of a mizen, or lateen sail.

PENTURE, a googing, or the eye of a clamp, fitted to receive a goose.neck, or some bolt of iron which turns therein like a pivot in it's socket.

PEINTURES de gouvernail, the googings of the rudder. See FERRURE de gouvernail.

PEOTE, a light nimble Venetian wherry, used frequently as an advice.boat, to carry expresses.

PERCEINTES. See PRÉCEINTES.

PERCEUR, a person who bores the holes for

for the tree.nails, or bolts, in a ship's side.

PERROQUET, a top.gallant.sail.

Mettre les PERROQUETS en banniere, to let fly the top.gallant sheets, as a particular signal or salute offered to some ship in company.

PERROQUETS volans, flying top.gallant.sails.

PERRUCHE, the mizen.top.gallant.sail.

PERTUIS, a dam, or channel of water, confined by a sluice.

PERTUISANE, a sort of pike or halbert, used to defend a ship from being boarded.

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