Illegal passenger who hides himself on board a ship in order to gain free passage or to escape from a country.

First attempt at best offer that can be matched

(1) Sailing away from the wind with the sails let out all the way; going with the wind, downwind sailing (2) To allow a line to feed freely. (3) The shape of the afterpart of the underbody of a ship in relation to the resistance it creates going through t ...

A transaction in which the purchaser of goods pays an initial deposit and takes possession. .

The liquor resulting from dissolving molten melt irom the kraft recovery furnace in water. See also kraft process and smelt.

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

The device in an air conditioner or heat pump through which the refrigerant is circulated and releases heat to the surroundings when a fan blows outside air over the coils. This will return the hot vapor that entered the coil into a hot liquid upon exitin ...

Diesel.

A type of journal bearing in centrifugal air compressors.

An instrument for measuring the relative speed of a fluid. It consists of a concentric pipe arrangement in which the inner pipe is open at one end and the outer pipe is perforated and closed at both ends. Each pipe is connected to a manometer. The unit is ...

A piece of rope placed so as to confine a spar or another rope. A handle made of rope, in the form of a circle, (as the handle of a chest.) is called a becket.

Large Unit Financial System.

The average amount of solar radiation that reaches the earth's upper atmosphere on a surface perpendicular to the sun's rays; equal to 1353 Watts per square meter or 492 Btu per square foot.

A form of property insurance which provides cover against such items as damage to the building,.

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure. Usually associated with and most clearly identified as an area of maximum cyclonic curvature of the wind flow. The opposite of a ridge.

To unload a shipping container.

The ratio of the electric power produced by a photovoltaic device to the power of the sunlight incident on the device.

A line that controls the angle of the sail in its relation to the wind; attached to the clew of a sail to adjust its trim (make the sail the proper shape to catch the wind).

Originally meant "to stow cargo". Now, means "to search a ship carefully and thoroughly".

A device invented by Captain Jacques Cousteau in 1943 to enable a diver to operate underwater independent from an air supply from the surface.