TOUER, to warp a ship from one place to another in a harbour.

TOUR à feu, a light.house. See PHARE.

TOUR de bitte au cable, a turn of the cable about the bits; the bitting of a cable.

TOUR de cable, a foul hawse; a turn or elbow in the hawse. See CABLE and CROIX.

TOUR.et.choque, a weather.bit of the cable, or a turn and half.turn about the bits.

TOUR marine, a watch.tower or block.house, on the sea.coast.

TOURBILLON, a whirlwind upon the sea.

TOURILLONS, the trunnions of any piece of ordnance.

TOURMENTE, a tempest, or great storm.

See TEMPETE.

TOURMENTER, when expressed of a ship, implies to labour or strain violently; when spoken of timber, it denotes to warp or twist.

TOURMENTIN, a name sometimes given to the sprit.sail top.sail. See PERROQUET de beaupré.

TOURNANT de mer, a whirlpool, or dangerous race in the sea.

TOURNANT is also a stake or post sunk into the angles of a canal, for the convenience of warping vessels up or down.

TOURNER le bord. See VIRER.

TOURNER sur sa ancre, to pass round the anchor; understood of a ship that, riding by a single anchor, has probably incircled the place where it lies, so as to sweep it with her cable, and make a foul anchor.

TOURNEVIRE, the voyol of the cable. See CABESTAN.

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