SALUER, to salute; to do homage at sea, by offering a salute.

SALUER à boulet, to salute by firing with shot; being an homage paid only to the king.

SALUER de la mousqueterie, to salute by firing a volley of small.arms.

SALUER de la voix, to salute with three chears, &c.

SALUER des voiles, to salute by lowering the sails.

SALUER, de canon, to fire a salute of cannon.

SALUER de pavillon, to salute by striking, or hauling.in the colours.

SALUT, a salute of any kind offered at sea.

Rendre le SALUT, to return the salute.

SAMEQUIN, a sort of Turkish merchant.ship.

SANCIR, to sink, or founder at sea; whence,

SANCI sous ses amarres, foundered at the anchors.

SANDALE, a sort of lighter used in the Levant.

SANGLES, mats, or small panches formed of spun yarn.

SAPINETTES, a sort of barnacles. See CRAVAN.

SARANGOUSTI, a peculiar gum, used to pay the seams of a ship in the East.Indies, instead of pitch.

SART, sea.weed, wreck, or tangles; the alga.marina.

SARTIE, the rigging of a ship, in the dialect of Provence.

SASSES, buckets to draw water, for washing the decks, &c.

SAUGUE, a fishing.boat of Provence.

SAUSISSON, the trough, or sausage, filled with powder, which communicates the flame from the train to the fire.trunks or powder.barrels in a fire.ship.

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