VENT de quartier, a quarterly, or quartering wind. M. Saverien defines this to be a wind perpendicular to the ship's course, and, consequently, a wind upon the beam; but I have ventured to correct this explanation by the authority of M. Aubin, who is certainly right in his definition.

VENT en pouppe. See VENT.

VENT en pouppe, largue la soute; large wind, large allowance; an expression used by seamen on the commencement of a fair wind, after they had been put to short allowance in consequence of foul winds.

Le VENT en pouppe fait trouver la mer unie, a stern wind brings an easy sea; expressed of a ship when sailing afore the wind, in which movement she is less strained by the agitation of the sea, than when she lies in the trough or hollow of it, side.ways.

VENT largue, a large wind.

VENT routier, a wind which serves to go and come upon the same line; such is the wind upon the beam.

VENTS variables, variable winds, or such as are without the tropics.

VENT à pic, the wind is right down; a witticism amongst tailors, to signify that there is a total cessation of wind, at which time the vanes hang right downward, instead of blowing.

VENTER, to blow or spring up; understood of the wind.

VENTILATEUR, a ventilator used at sea.

VERBOQUET, a guy used by shipwrights to keep steady any piece of timber, so as to lodge it securely in a ship's frame.

VERGE de giroüette, the spindle of the vane at the mast.head.

VERGE de l'ancre, the arm of an anchor.

VERGE de pompe, a pump.spear. See also BARRE de pompe.

VERGUE, the yard of any principal sail which traverses the mast at right angles.

VERGUE à corne. See CORNE de vergue.

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