empormontt maritime dictionary es-en.pdf

8/10/2019 EMPORMONTT MARITIME DICTIONARY ES-EN.pdf

1/17

MARITIME DICTIONARY

ESPAOL CHILE - INGLS

Abarloar: to come alongside

Abatimiento: leeway, drift

Abatir: to fall off, tend leeward

Abrigo: harbor, inlet, cove

Abordar: to crash or bump one ship against another

Aclarar: to clear

Acoderar: to bring the broadside to bear, to anchor broadside on

Acollador: lanyard

Acuartelar: to flat or haul in the jib

Achicar: pump out the bilge

Achicador: pump


2/17

Adrizar: to right itself

Adujar: to curl up

Alefriz: mortise, rabbet

Aleta: place on a ship

Alma: center of a curled rope

Alunamiento: curve of boltrope

Amadrinar: to splice together, join

Amainar: to calm, lessen, reduce

Amante: rope, pendant

Amantillo: lift, topping lift

Amarra: mooring line, cable or rope

Amura: bow timbers, tack of a sail

Anclote: kedge anchor

Aparadura: garboard

Aparejar: to rig, fit out

Aparejo: rigging


3/17

Apopar: balance out

Arboladura: masts and yards; rigging

Ardiente: bring into the wind

Arganeo: anchor ring

Armar: ready a ship to launch

Arraigado: lashing, mooring line or chain

Arrancada: starting jerk, sudden start

Arranchar: to skirt, sail close to

Arrufo: sheer of a ship

Arribar: to drift with the wind, to fall off to leeward

Arrumbamiento: course

Atracar: to bring alongside

Atracada: docking, berthing

Azimut: azimuth

Azocar: to tighten up (a knot)


4/17

Babor: port side

Balandrajo: sloop

Baliza: buoy, beacon

Baluma: after-leach rope

Bancada: rowers bench, bank

Banda: side of ship

Bandazo: lurch, violent heave or roll to one side

Baera: wash tub

Baos: beam

Barloventear: to ply to windward

Barlovento: windward

Bargrafo: barograph

Barmetro: barometer

Batten: cutlass

Baupres: bowsprit

Bichero: boathook


5/17

Bitcora: binnacle, compass case

Bita: bitt, cleat

Bolina: bowline, sounding line

Borda: gunwale, main sail

Borde: board, side of a ship

Bordejear: to tack back and forth

Borneo: twisting at anchor, space to turn around a ship

Botaln: boom

Botavara: gaff, boom

Botazo: boot, cushion, bumper

Boyarin: float or be afloat

Boza: stopper, small boat, mooring line

Braza: fathom, brace rope

Brazola: coaming

Brazos: boom, jib


6/17


7/17

Cazar: to tally or haul in

Centro de carena: the center of the part below water of a ship

Centro de gravedad: center of gravity

Centro de resistencia lateral: lateral resistance center of a shipCentro vlico: point where the wind force hits the sail

Ceir: to sail against the wind with the least angle possible

Cepo: a piece of metal attached to the middle of the anchor

Cerrazn: a blanket of storm clouds

Chalana: small embarkation project, on the surface

Chalupa: an old measure, a small embarkation that can carries two mast

Chata: a small flat bottom boat with large cargo capacity

Chicote: extreme end of a cable or chain

Chicha: absolute calm

Chinchorro: a small auxiliary boat

Chubasquera: rain cover

Ciar: to put about, to turn around

Cintn: a wooden structure that goes on the back of a ship

Codaste: sternpost

Cockpit: cockpit

Codera: stern fast

Comps: compass

Comps magntico: magnetic compass

Compensacin: actions to compensate for magnetic variations

Condiciones marineras: sea conditions

Conserva: a company that puts two or more boats at sea

Cornamusa: a substance to make a rope or cable stiff

Corredera: an instrument to measure the distance traveled to determine speed

Correr: to sail in bad weather with little or no sail

Costados: to turn broadside

Costillas: ribs of a ship


8/17

Cote: a simple tie of a rope

Coz: base of a top mast

Crucetas: crosstree

Cruja: midship gangwayCruz: center of a sail yard, throat of an anchor

Cuaderna: frame of a hull, main ribs or timbers of a ship

Cuadernal: block, block and tackle

Cuaderno de bitcora: a notebook or log with all of the information to navigate

Cuadra: quarter, width of beam

Cuadrante: log bearings on a nautical chart

Cuarta: rhumb, point of a compass

Cuartern: large scale nautical map

Cubierta: deck

Cubierta principal: main deck

Cuchilla/o: full triangular sail

Culebra, culebrilla: cable or line

Culebrear: to zig zag

Cuter: cutter

Dracn: a commercial brand name for cloth used for sails

Declinacin magntica: magnetic declination

Defensas: bumpers or buoys to keep ships from rubbing up against the dock

Demora: bearing

Deriva: to drift

Derivar: drift or go off course

Derrame: leakage of wind (through boltropes)

Derrota: ships course

Derrotero: course, route, collection of charts

Desabrigado: without harbor, abandoned

Desarbolar: to get clear after a collision

Desarmar: to dismantle and lay up (a ship)

Desatracar: to push off from the pier, to sheer away from the coast


9/17

Descuartelar: to navigate with the wind

Desentalingar: to unbend, unfasten (a cable from an anchor ring)

Desplazamiento: displacement

Desvo: diversion, deviationDinghy: dinghy or small boat

Draga: dredge

Driza: halyard

Durmiente: shelfpiece

Embarrancar: to run aground

Embestir: to run into another boat

Embicar: to steer straight for land

Empaquetadura: something put between two surfaces

Empavesado: ships dressing or bunting

Empopada: sailing before the wind

Encalmarse: to calm down

Encallar: to run aground

Encapilladura: the top of the mast

Encepar: to foul (the anchor)

Enfachar: to put the bow into the wind

Enfilacin: to stay on a straight line or on course

Engalanado: bedecked

Enjaretado: wooden grating or latticework

Entalingar: to clinch a cable to the anchor ring

Entena: lateen yard, long beam

Envergar: to bend the sails, to fasten the sails to the yard

Escala de una carta: the difference between a drawn object and its real size, scale

Escala de gato: catwalk

Escala de tojino: a fixed ladder usually made of steel rungs

Escandalosa: gaff, top sail

Escadallo: sounding-lead, trail

Escarceo: choppiness of the sea


10/17

Escoben: the opening on the ship from which the anchor is raised/lowered

Escollo: reef

Escora: line running through point of curvature, shore, prop, list, heel

Escota: sheetEscuadra: crew

Eslora: length, binding strakes of the deck, total length

Espejo: fantail curvature or surface

Espia: a name given to a cable on a boat

Espiche: a hole made to empty water

Estanco: watertight, leak proof, seaworthy

Estanqueidad: water tightness

Estay: stay, mainstay

Estela: wake of a ship,

Estima: dead reckoning

Estribor: starboard

Estrobo: grommet, strap

Estropada: inertia of a tied up ship

Fibra de vidrio: fiberglass

Filar: to case out, to pay out (as rope)

Filastica: rope yarn, rope strands

Flechaste: ratline

Fondeadero: anchorage place, anchoring ground

Fogonadura: mast-hole

Fondear: to anchor, cast anchor, to sound (the depth of water)

Fondo: bottom, seabed

Foque: jib, balloon sail

Fortuna: storm, tempest

Forro: planking, sheathing, covering

Fragata: frigate

Fraile: a piece of wood used in the stern of a ship to tie down things

Franco: a wind that allows for straight forward sailing without tacking


11/17

Francobordo: a vertical measurement from the flotation line to the top of the cabin

Gallardete: pennant, streamer

Galleta: top piece of a mast or sail made of metal or plastic

Garete: to be adrift, driftGarrear: to drag the anchor

Garrucho: grommet, cringle

Gatera: the tube that the anchor chain comes out of

Gaza: splice, noose, strap, loop

Goleta: schooner

Grampn: small grapnel

Grandes veleros: old sailing ships

Gratil: leech (of a sail), slings, middle of yard

Grillete: a u bolt of multiple use on a ship

Grmpola: pennant, streamer

Groera: rope hole

Guaira: leg-of-mutton sail

Gualdrapear: to flap (sails)

Guardacabo: iron ring bound with rope to prevent chafing

Guardamancebo: man-rope

Guindaleza: ships cable, hawser

Guindola: life buoy, log chip, boatswains chair

Guiada: yaw, lurch

Hacer cabeza: when the anchor hits bottom

Hembra: grudgeon

Imbornal: drain hole

Izar: hoist, to haul up

Jarcia: all of the ropes or cables on a boat

Jarcia firme: rope or cable storage area on a boat

Jarcia mvil o de labor: rope storage area

Ketch: ketch, smack

Kevlar: Kevlar


12/17

Landa fija: metal hook

Landa mvil: moveable metal hook

Lantia: binnacle lamp

Lanzamiento: casting awayLargo: wind along the ship

Lastre: ballast,

Latitud: Lattitude

Levar: raise the anchor from the ocean floor or bottom

Limera: rudder hole, helmpool

Lnea de cruja: line along the length of the ship

Lnea de fe: direction of the bow as indicated on the magnetic compass

Lnea de flotacin: flotation line

Lnea de posicin: position line

Llamador: a cable piece

Longitud geogrfica: Geographic longitude

Lua: lee

Lumbrera: porthole

Machos: rudder pintle

Maestra: main mast

Manga: width of a ship

Maniobra: exercise, practice

Mano de rizos: to take in the reefs

Mapa: map or nautical chart

Marcacin: relative bearing, taking ships bearing

Mstil: mast, top mast,

Matafiones: small ropes that make the sail stiff

Mayor: main (mast)

Mecha: spindle, main part of mast

Mena: thickness of cordage

Mesana: mizzen mast or sail

Milla nutica: nautical mile


13/17

Molinete: winch

Mordaza: hawschole clamp (stops or slows exit of anchor chain)

Morder: to tighten, bite or clamp down, strike bottom

Mortero: inner compass boxMosquetn: a metal piece to tighten up a connection

Motn: topping block

Muerto: heavy anchor

Mylar: mylar

Navegacin: navigation, the art of sailing or piloting a ship

Nervadura, nervio: structural re-enforcement that makes material or fiber glass lines stiffer or

more rigid

Norte del comps: north by compass

Norte geogrfico: geographic north or true north

Norte magntico: magnetic north

Nudo: a knot, measure of speed

Obenque: the cables that hold the mast up

Obenquillo: shroud, guy, shifters

Obra muerta: the part of the hull that is out of the water

Obra viva: the part of the hull that is below the water line

Ollao: eyelets of the sail or shades

Orejas de burro: a way of navegating

Orla: wood or metal covers

Orza: sail set into the wind

Orzar: luff, luffing, turning into the wind

Pabelln: the national flag

Pairear, ponerse al pairo: to decrease speed

Palmear: a wooden flooring used on a ship

Pala: the flat, wide part of the oar that is submerged in the water or the entire oar

Palo: main supporting structure of the sail

Palo seco: all sails secured or stowed

Pantoque: part of the hull, the transition between the bottom and the side, usually curved


14/17

Pao: all of the material that makes up the sail

Pasamanos: handrails, gangway

Pasteca: snatch block

Pendura: anchor suspended below waterPenol: yardarm, peak, very close

Percha: headrail

Pico: gaff, top of mast support

Pico de loro: part of the anchor

Pie de amigo: part of mast

Pie de gallo: cable or rope

Pinula: sight, pinnule

Pinzote: tiller, pintle

Plano lateral: vertical plane

Pluma: carto lift

Popa: stern of a ship

Portaespa: metal device used to prevent damage to ropes or cables

Prctico: harbor pilot

Proa: bow

Publicaciones nuticas: nautical material such as sea tables, charts

Puesta a punto: sail position at its maximum efficiency

Pujamen: foot of a sail, bottom part of sail

Quebranto: deformation, flexing of hull

Queche: ketch, smack

Quilla: keel, bilge

Quillote: stabilizes the lateral plane of the ship

Rabiza: short rope or cable

Rastrera: lower studding sail

Recalar: to sight land, to reach a ship

Recalmn: lull in wind or sea

Regala: gunwale, gunnel

Relinga: boltrope, rope (of fishing net)


15/17

Repicar: to tighten up

Restinga: shoal, bar, ledge of rocks

Retenida: guy, guy wire

Rezn: grapnelRa: estuary

Rifadura: splitting (of a sail)

Rizos: to take in the reefs

Roda: cutwater, stem

Rol: list of crew members of a ship

Rolar, rolido: to veer around

Ronza: to fall leeward

Rosa de los vientos: a circle marked with the directions in 360 degrees

Rumbo: course

Sable: batten or wood planking

Sagula: halyard

Saltar: sudden change in wind

Sargazo: gulfweed

Seccin transversal: transverse section

Seccin maestra: principle transverse section

Seno: simple rope or cable knot

Sentina: bilge

Serreta: a structural re-enforcing metal piece that runs from bow to stern

Sextante: sextant

Shock Cord: shock cord

Sigladura: the distance traveled by a ship in 24 hours

Sirgar: to tow, to track

Sobrequilla: keelson

Socaire: lee, slack, under protection

Sonda: sounding, probing, fathoming

Sondaleza: sounding line.

Sotavento: leeward, lee


16/17

Spinnaker: spinnaker, Sphinx, a type of sail

Suspencin Cardnica: a place where ships instruments are positioned so that they are not

affected by the movements caused by the ocean

Tambucho: a place to stow sails and things, ventilation, light opening

Tangn: outrigger

Tarquina: trapezoidal sail

Telera: the box where International Signal Flags are stored

Templar: to trim sails to the wind

Tenedero: anchoring ground

Tensor: tension adjustment mechanism

Tingladillo: clinker work

Tintero: female metal piece

Tolete: rowlock, oarlock, thole

Tomadores: gasket

Tope: top of the main mast

Tracas: strake

Trancanil: waterway

Transluchar: change the direction of the sails, change to leeward

Travs: perpendicular position of the ship to the coastline

Trinca: lashing rope

Trincar: to lie to

Trinquete: foreyard, foresail, foremast

Trinquetilla: small jib, fore-topmast staysail

Ua: bill, peak, fluke of an anchor

Vagra: longitudinal structural beam

Varadero: shipyard, drydock

Varar: to put in drydock, to run aground, to come to a standstill

Varenga: headrail, frame timber

Vareta: wooden structure or strips

Velamen: the totality of the sails of a ship

Verdn: scum or mold, barnacles


17/17

Verduguillo: sheer rail, sheer strake

Verga: yard, crossjack yard, all ready to sail

Veril: border of a canal, bank

Viento: tie downsViento aparente o relativo: relative wind

Viento real: real wind

Virar: to turn, veer, tack

Virazn: sea breeze

Yate: yatch

Yawl (Yol): yawl

Yola: dinghy

Zafar: loosen, untie

Zaga: long line of the ship

Zapata: false keel

empormontt maritime dictionary es-en.pdf

Documents