VAISSEAU démarrée, a ship unmoored, or broke adrift from her moorings. See DEMARRER.

VAISSEAU gondelé, a ship built with a great sheer.

VAISSEAU qui a le cote droit comme un mur, a wall.sided ship.

VAISSEAU qui a le côté foible, a straight.sheered ship.

VAISSEAU qui a le côté fort, a round.sided ship.

VAISSEAU qui cargue, a crank ship.

VAISSEAU qui charge a fret, a trading ship. See FRET.

VAISSEAU qui se manie bien, a good working ship; a ship that is easily managed and steered.

VAISSEAU qui se port bien à la mer, a good sea.boat.

VAISSEAU rallongé, a lengthened ship.

VAISSEAU de bas.bord, a low.built vessel navigated with sails and oars; as the gallies in the Mediterranean.

VAISSEAU de haut.bord, a general name for large ships.

VAISSEAU du roy, fleet of ships of war, navy.

VALANCINE. See BALANCINE.

VALETS d'artillerie, the boys which attend the great guns in a sea.fight, &c.

VALTURE, the lashing of the sheers; or a rope employed to lash two masts together in any particular place, when they are to be used as sheers.

VARANGUAIS. See MARTICLES.

VARANGUES, a general name for the floor.timbers; as,

VARANGUES acculées, the crotches or floor.timbers afore and abaft.

VARANGUES demi.acculées, the floor.timbers placed between the varangues acculées and the VARANGUES plates, or VARANGUES de fond, the flat floor.timbers placed in the middle or broadest part of a ship's floor.

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