TRIBORD, the starboard side of the ship. See also STRIBORD.

TRIBORDAIS, starbowlines; a cant term for the starboard.watch.

TR1ÉRARQUE, an officer formerly appointed to furnish a ship with soldiers, rowers, arms, and provisions.

TRINGLE, a thin lath, used occasionally to fill up the edges of a gun.port, dead.light, &c. and make it tight, so as to exclude the wind or water.

TRINGLE is also a batten of wood about two feet long, nailed against the butts or joints of a boat's planks, to strengthen them in that place.

TRINGLER, to mark timber with a chalked or red line, in order to hew or bevel it to the exact form and scantlings.

TRINQUET, the fore.mast of a row.galley.

TINQUETTE, a triangular fore.sail, as that of a sloop, and such vessels.

TRISSE de beaupré, the standing.lifts of the sprit.sail yard.

TRISSE de racage. See DROSSE de racage.

TROMPE, or pompe de mer, a water.spout.

TROMPETTE marine, a speaking.trumpet used at sea.

TROUS d'amure de misaine. See BOUTE.de.lof.

TROSSE de racage, a small tackle, formerly used as a nave.line.

TROUS d'écoutes, the sheave.holes, which are cut obliquely through a ship's side, wherein the main and fore.sheets are reeved. See CLAN.

TROUS de la civadiere. See OEIL.

TUGUE. See TEUGUE.

TUTELLE, the tutelary saint represented on the stern of a ship, and to whose protection she is consigned, in nations under the Catholic superstition.

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