PINASSE de Biscaye, a Bifcayan barcalongo.

PINCEAU à goudronner, a tar.brush.

PINCES de bois, a sort of curved hand.specs. See RENARD.

PINCER le vent. See ALLER au plus pres.

PINNULE, the sight.vanes of any instrument, for observing or setting a distant object at sea.

PINOUE, a pink, or narrow.sterned ship, with a flat floor.

A PIOUE, apeek, when the cable of a ship is hove so tight as to bring her directly over the anchor, the cable bearing right down from the stem.

PIRIS, a sort of canoe used by the negroes in Guinea, and the Cape de Verds.

PIRATE, a pirate, or free.booter. See also CORSAIRE.

PIRATER, to rob at sea; to infest or scour the seas as a pirate.

PIROGUE, an American canoe.

PISTON, the spear.box of a pump.

PITONS à boucles. See CHEVILLE à boucles.

PIVOT, an iron point which turns in a socket; as the foot of the capstern.

PIVOT de boussole, the brass center.pin of the compass.

PLAGE, a shallow or flat shore, without any capes or head.lands to form a road or bay, wherein shipping may come to an anchor.

PLAIN, a flat or shoal; whence, WHEN ALLER AU PLAIN, to run ashore.

PLANCHE, the gang.board of a boat.

PLAQUES de plomb, sheet.lead, used for several purposes aboard.ship.

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