Donner un SAUT à la bouline, to check the bowline.

SAUTE, an expression of command, which answers to away.up, or away.out to such a place ! &c. as SAUTE sur la beaupré! away.out on the bowsprit! &c. SAUTE sur la vergue! go up to the yard, or out upon the yard, &c.

SAUTER, to veer, to shift suddenly; expressed of the wind when it changes to another point of the compass.

SAUVAGE, or SAUVEMENT, salvage; the payment of salvage.

SAUVE.gardes, the ridge.ropes which extend the nettings of a ship's head.

SAUVE.gardes, or tire.veilles, the horses, or main.ropes of the bowsprit.

SAUVE.gardes de gouvernail, the rudder.pendents, with their chains.

SAUVE.rabans, the pudenings of the yards, used to preserve the rope.bands from being galled by the top.sails sheets.

SAUVEURS, persons employed in recovering any stores, rigging, &c. from a wreck on the sea.coast.

SCIER à culer, to back a.stern with the oars; to row stern.foremost.

SCIER sur le fer, to support the cable of a galley by rowing with the oars, when she is at anchor in a storm, and in danger of driving ashore.

Mettre à SCIER, ou mettre à culer, to back the sails, or lay them aback, so as to make the vessel fall astern.

SCIE.babord, pull the larboard.oars, or pull to starboard!

SCIE.tribord, pull the starboard.oars, or pull to port!

SCITIE, a settee, or particular kind of Italian bark with two masts.

SCORBUT, or SCURBOT, the scurvy, a well known marine distemper.

SCOUE, the extremity of a floor.timber, where it is joined to the lower futtock.

SCUTE, a skiff, or small boat, belonging to a ship.

Reference Works