PESER sur un levier, to heave, or purchase with a hand spec.

PHARE, or tour àfeu, a watch.tower, or light.house on the sea.coast.

PIC à pic sur sa ancre, close a peek upon the anchor.

PIECE, a cannon. See CANON.

PIECE de charpente, a general name for any large piece of timber used in the construction of a ship.

PIECES de chasse, the chace.guns, or head.chaces.

PIED de vent, a clear spot of the sky, appearing under a cloud to windward.

PIED.marin, sea.shoes; expressed of a man who has got sea.legs, or who treads firmly at sea, as being accustomed there.to.

PIÉDROITS, the Samson's posts erected in the hold from the kelson to the lower.deck hatchways, and notched with steps.

PIERRIER, a petrero, or small cannon, sometimes used in sea.fights, and generally charged with musket.shot, or swivel.balls.

PIÉTER le gouvernail, to mark the stern.post with feet, in order to discover the ship's draught of water abaft.

PILIERS de bittes, the bits of a ship.

PILLAGE, the plunder taken from any enemy after engagement.

PILON, or petit ecore, a shore which is steep to, and but little raised above the sea.

PILOTAGE, the navigating, conducting or steering of a ship.

PILOTE, a sea pilot, or the conductor of a ship's course by the art of navigation; also the master of a ship. See HAUTURIER.

PILOTE côtier, or PILOTE de havre, a coasting, or harbour pilot. See LAMANEUR.

PILOTE hardie, a daring or enterprising pilot. PILOTER, to pilot a ship into, or out of, a harbour or river.

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