This is a trading term between buyer and seller where a seller agrees to deliver goods to a buyer before a payment is made and without any form of guarantee of payment.

Type of mobile crane found on a truck.

A phrase with a nautical derivation, meaning a man under the influence of drink or unsteadiness through drink.

The most common use of the term 'gearing' is to describe the level of a company's debt compared.

The force or load that produces elongation.

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Lloyds Machinery Certificate

Integrated Tug Barge

The natural tendency of a sailboat to come up into the wind. The helm must be held over to keep the boat from coming up

Character of main propulsion machinery assigned to a ship having classification character NS.

The ratio of fuel energy input as heat per unit of net work output; a measure of a power plant thermal efficiency, generally expressed as Btu per net kilowatt-hour.

The ability to send or wheel electric power to a customer over a transmission and distribution system that is not owned by the generator (seller) of the power.

Openings in the bottom or transom of a boat to drain water when sailing.

A fitting holding a boom or gaff to the mast.

A pension plan in which an employee's pension benefit is related to number of years service and.

Meddling or fooling around.

A rail surrounding the poop deck.

China Ocean Shipping Co.

The depth below which the ground is saturated with water. No water table exists if the ground water is confined by an overlying impermeable stratum, as in the case of artesian ground water.

Fisheries Research Ship.