A new and universal dictionary of the marine
Subtitle: being, a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases usually employed in the construction, equipment, machinery, movements, and military, as well as naval operations of ships: with such parts of astronomy, and navigation, as will be found useful to practical navigators
By: Illustrated with a variety of modern designs of shipping, &c. together with separate views of the masts, yards, sails, and rigging. To which is annexed, a vocabulary of French sea-phrases and terms of art, collected from the best authorities. Originally comp. by William Falconer ... now modernized and much enl. by William Burney.
Contributors: Burney, William, 1762-1832, ed.
Publisher: T. Cadell
Published: 1815
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Naval art and science -- Dictionaries.; Ship-building -- Dictionaries.; English language -- 18th century -- Dictionaries.; French language -- Dictionaries -- English.
Notes: First pub. in 1769 under title: An universal dictionary of the marine.