A person or firm who transacts all business in a port on behalf of shipowners or charterers. Also called shipping agent; agent.

Indian Register of Shipping (Class Society)

A hoisting apparatus consisting of a block and tackle rigged at the end of a beam.

Tassels of unraveled line, yarns, etc. which are lashed around chafe spots such as spreaders to prevent chafe on sails.

A masonry or metal stack that creates a draft to bring air to a fire and to carry the gaseous byproducts of combustion safely away.

A term used to describe heat energy lost from a water heater tank.

A type of solar thermal collector that has tubes (pipes) that the heat transfer fluid flows through that are connected to a flat absorber plate.

Air cylinder

Pitting resulting from ablation, outgassing or meteor contact.

For a given location, a measure of the long-range effectiveness of precipitation in promoting plant growth. Also called precipitation-evaporation index.

Percentage of freight payable to broker (by owners in c/p's) or applicable to sale or purchase.

An approach to investment that focuses on analysis of a company's financial and business.

Deterioration of material caused by ion impact.

A switching railroad operating within a commercial area.

For a given locality and month, an empirical expression devised for the purpose of classifying climates numerically on the basis of precipitation and evaporation.

Jail

A deck crew member who is subordinate to the Able Bodied Seamen.

Same as dew-point hygrometer.

Same as Aeolian.

A class of rain gauge in which the level of the collected rain water is measured by the position of a float resting on the surface of the water.