VA et vient, a span, or rope extended from one place to another, whereon to draw any thing along by means of a traveller.

VAGANS, vagrants or hovellers, who infest the sea.coast in a tempest, in expectation of plunder from some ship.wrecked vessel.

See DEBRIS.

VAGUES, the waves or surges of the sea. See LAMES.

VAIGRER, to attach the planks and thick.stuff of a ship's cieling, to the timbers.

VAIGRES, ou serres, a general name for the clamps and thick.stuff used in the cieling of a ship; as, MAIGRES de fond, the thick.stuff placed next to the keel.

VAIGRES d'empature, the thick.stuff placed between the floor.heads and the vaigres de fond.

VAIGRES de pont, the clamps which support the ends of the beams.

VAIGRES de fleurs, the thick.stuff placed opposite to the floor.heads.

VAISSEAU, a ship, or large vessel of war, or burthen.

VAISSEAU à la bande, a ship lying along, or heeling gunnel.to, as under a weight of sail in a fresh wind: this is frequently called lying down on the broadside or beam.ends.

VAISSEAU à l'ancre, a ship at anchor.

VAISSEAU à sa poste, a ship in her station, as appointed by the commanding officer.

VAISSEAU armée en guerre, armed ship, a vessel occasionally taken into the service, to guard a coast, or attend on a squadron, and armed and equipped in every respect as a ship of war. She is on the establishment of a king's sloop, and commanded by a lieutenant, with a master, surgeon, purser, &c.

VAISSEAU beau de combat, a roomy ship, advantageously built for battle, as carrying her lower tier high above the water, and having a good heighth between decks.

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