PLAT de l'équipage, or un PLAT des matelots, a mess, or company of seven sailors who eat together. The word literally signifies a bowl or platter, in which the whole mess eat at the same time.

PLAT des malades, the sick mess, under the care of the surgeon.

PLAT.BORD, the gunnel, or gun.wale of a ship.

PLAT.BORD also means wash.board or weather.board.

PLAT.BORD à l'eau, gunnel.in, or gunnel.to; expressed of a ship that inclines so much to one side as to make the gunnel touch the surface of the water, by crowding sail in a fresh wind.

PLAT de rame, the blade of an oar.

PLATE.BANDS d'affûts, the clamps of a gun.carriage, which are used to confine the trunnions therein.

PLATE.FORME de l'éperon, the platform or grating within the rails of the head.

PLATE.FORMES, an assemblage of oak.planks, forming a part of the deck, near the side of a vessel of war, whereon the cannons rest in their ports.

PLATINES de lumiere, the aprons of the cannons.

PLI de cable, a fake of the cable.

Filer un PLI de cable, to veer away one fake of the cable.

Vaisseau qui PLIE le côté, a crank ship.

PLIER, to bend or supple the planks of a ship, as by heat and moisture.

PLIER le côté, to lie over in the water; to heel extremely when under sail.

PLIER le pavillon, PLIER les voiles, to gather up the fly of the ensign, or furl the sails.

PLOC, the hair and tar put between the bottom.planks of a ship and the sheathing, to fill up the interval, and preserve the bottom from the worms.

PLOCQUER, to apply the sheathing.hair to a ship's bottom.

PLOMBER une navire, to try whether a ship is upright, or to what side she heels, by means of a plumb.line and level.

PLONGEUR, a diver, whose employment it is to bring any thing up from the bottom, as spunges, coral, &c.

PLONGER, to duck, or immerse any thing in the water; also to plunge or dive into the water, &c.

PLUMET de pilote, or panon, a feather.vane, or dog.vane.

POGE, ou POUGE, the order to put the helm a.weather, in order to fill the sails, or bear away. This is the language of Provence. See ARRIVE.tout.

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