TABLEAU, the compartment, whereon the name is engraved or painted on the stern of a Dutch flight. See ECUSSON.

TABLETTE, the rising.staff; a form, or scale, used by shipwrights when erecting the frames of the timbers.

TABOURIN, the fore.castle of a galley, with the space underneath it, where the artillery are loaded and fired. See COUVERT de l'iscoscle.

TAILLE.MER, or gorgere, the lower part of a ship's cut.water, or of the prow in a galley.

TAILLES de fond, & TAILLES de point. See CARGUES fond, & CARGUEs.point.

TALINGUER, or ETALINGUER, to bend the cable to the anchor.ring.

TALLARD, the space, wherein the slaves of a row.galley are placed to manage their oars: It is situated between the coursiere, or middle gangway, and the gunnel.

TALON de la quille, the after.end of the keel, into which the foot of the sternpost is tenented: this is also called the ship's heel.

TALON de rode, the heel of the stem, or stern.post of a row.galley. See RODE.

Couper en TALUS, to hew a plank shelving, or with a slanting edge.

TAMBOUR, a drum; also the drummer, or person who beats it.

TAMBOUR, d'éperon, the doubling of the cut.water, or the planks nailed on the outside of it, to defend it from the assaults of the waves.

TAMISAILLE, or TAMISE, the transom, upon which the tiller traverses in a ship's gun.room.

TAMPONS, wooden shot.plugs, employed to fill up the holes made in a ship's side by the cannon balls of an enemy: also plates of iron, copper, or lead, used for the same purpose.

TAMPONS de canon, the tompions of the great guns.

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