deploye

Updated: May 20, 2025

The boats were then ordered to pursue them, and we set off, diverging a little from each other's course, or, as the French would say, deploye, to give a better chance of falling in with them. I was in the gig with the master, and, that being the best running boat, we soon came up with one of the feluccas. We fired musketry at her: but having a light breeze, she would not bring-to.

Frederick Marryat - Frank Mildmay : Or, the Naval Officer