Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction Equipment Furniture Machinery Movements and Military Operations of a Ship written by William Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine written by William Falconer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive dictionary of maritime terminology was first published in 1813 and designed as a reference work for shipbuilders and navigators. It was compiled by the naval historian William Burney and presented a revised and expanded version of the classic Universal Marine Dictionary originally published in 1769 by the poet and lexicographer William Falconer (1732–89). The dictionary with over 800 pages presents technical data on shipbuilding, navigation, the operation of ships, weaponry, and provisions, as well as historical, legal, and medical information.
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Download or read book Falconer s New Universal Dictionary of the Marine written by William Falconer and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Falconer first published his marine dictionary in 1769. It provided definitions of maritime terminology, data on technical aspects of shipbuilding and the Navy's administrative and operational practices. This is a reprint of the 1815 edition as revised by the naval historian William Burney.
Download or read book A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine written by William Falconer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1813 dictionary covers every aspect of seafaring, from shipbuilding to navigation, and from supplies to signals.
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Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Classic Reprint written by William Falconer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine The fails are faid to be taken aback, when they are brought into this fituation, either by a fudden change of the wind, or by an alteration in the fliip's courfe. They are laid aback, to ch'eet an immediate retreat, without turning to the right or left or, in the fea-phrafe, to give the Ihip flan-way, in order to avoid fome danger difcovered before her in a narrow channel or when fire has advanced beyond her itation in the line of battle, or otherwife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book An Universal Dictionary of the Marine written by William Falconer and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1784 edition. Excerpt: ...object. PERIAGUA, a fort of large canoe, ufed in the Leeward iflands, South America, and the gulph of Mexico. It differs from the common vefiels of that name, as being compofed of the trunks of two trees, hollowed and united into one fabric; whereas thofe which are properly called canoes, are formed of the body of one tree. See Cakoe. PIER, a ftrong mound, or fence, projecting into the fea, to break off the violence of the waves from the entrance of a harbour. PILLAGE, (butin, Fr.) the plunder of a prize taken from an enemy. PILLOW, (coujfin, Fr.) a block of timber, whereon the inner-end of the bowfprit is fuppord. See Bowsprit. PILOT, the officer who fuperintends the navigation, either upon the fea-coaft or on the main ocean. It is, however, more particularly applied by our mariners to the perfon charged with the direction of a fhip's courfe, on, or near the fea-coaft, and into the roads, bays, rivers, havens, &c. within his refpedtive diftrift. The regulations, with regard to pilots in the royal navy, are as follow: The commanders of the king's fiiips, in order to give all reafonable encouragement to fo ufeful a body of men as pilots, and to remove all their objections to his majefty's fei-vice, are ftriftly charged to treat them with good ufage, and an equal refpedl with warrant-officers. " The purfer of the fhip is always to have a let of bedding provided on board for the pilots, and the captain is to order the boatfwain to fupply them with hammocs, and a convenient place to lie in, neartheir duty, and apart from the common men; which bedding and hammocs are to be returned when the pilots leave the fhip. " A pilot, when conducting one of his majefty's (hips in pilot-water, (hall have the fole charge and command of the...
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