An instrument which measures the instantaneous rate at which rain is falling on a given surface. Also called a rate-of-rainfall gauge.

A light spar set fore and aft on a boat, serving as a spread for the boat cover.

A form of psychrometer with wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers mounted on opposite sides of a specialty designed graph of the psychrometric tables. It is so arranged that the intersections of two curves determined by the wet-bulb and dry-bulb readings -yi ...

Combination

A spread strategy that increases the account's cash balance when it is established. A bull spread.

Price-sensitive information about a company that has not yet been made public.

Said of a man who goes to sea as a rating compared with officers, and lives forward. Forward of a mast.

A nickname referring to British seamen. All British ships were to carry a supply of lime juice for issue to the crew as a preventative against scurvy.

Research and Special Programs Administration.

The process of desiccants being regenerated by water being driven off the desiccant. Hot air or gas passes through the desiccant bed, heating it. As a result, the partial pressure of the water vapor becomes higher than that in the regenerating air. Water ...

A listing of a particular boat's steering deviation on each point of the compass

devoid of water.

Harbor Maintenance Tax

Trade Policy Review Body

High Speed Passenger.

An expression describing a sailing ship set with every sail she can carry.

The shape of the phase power at a certain frequency and amplitude.

To enter a port or harbor

Same as intergranular corrosion. See also interdendritic corrosion.

A type of pressure-tube anemometer, named after the inventor.