A SEC, or à mâts & à cordes, a.hull, or under

under bare poles. See METTRE à sec.

SECOND, or vaisseau SECOND. See

MATELOT.

SECRET d'un canon, the train of a piece of ordnance, which communicates with the touch.hole.

SECRET d'un brulot, that part of the train of a fire.ship where the match or fusee is laid by the captain, as ready for inflamation.

SEILLURE. See SILLAGE.

SEIN, a small bay or gulph with a narrow entrance: also a SEIN, or capacious fishing.net of a particular construction, used on the sea.coast.

SEIN d'une voile, the bight, cavity, or belly of a sail.

SEJOUR, the space of time that a ship remains in any port whereat she touches in the course of a voyage.

SELLE de calfat, a caulking.box, which contains the instruments and materials used in caulking a ship.

SEMAQUE, or SEMALE, a smack or fishing.sloop.

SEMELLES, or DERIVES, lee.boards.

SENAU, a snow; also a small Flemish vessel rigged like a smack.

SENTINELLE de chaloupe, the keeper of the long.boat.

SEP de drisse, the lights, or knight.heads of the jears, with their sheaves: these machines are no longer used in English vessels of war.

SERGENT, a wraining bolt, used to bend a ship's planks into their places.

See ANTOIT.

SERRAGE ou SERRES de vaisseau, a general name for those planks of a ship which are called thick.stuff by our shipwrights.

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