Slang expression to indicate that a ship was not fitted with any mechanical aids, and that all the work of the ship had to be done with the strong arms of the crew.

To search for a sunken object by towing a grapnel along bottom.

A process employed in the shipment of citrus fruits and other perishable commodities. The fruit is packed and placed in a cold room from which the heat is gradually extracted. The boxes of fruit are packed in containers that have been thoroughly cooled an ...

To assist or help.

A solar energy collection device consisting of containers of water located on a roof that absorb solar energy during the day so that the heat can be used at night or that cools a building by evaporation at night.

(HIP)A plan enabling the normally elderly owner or owners of a property to utilise its capital value.

In fatigue, the variation in the stress-intensity factor in cycle, that is, Kmax-Kmin.

An atmometer which uses a filter paper disc as the evaporating element. The amount of water evaporated through the paper is read at the graduated tube reservoir.

A container insulated on the walls, roof, floor, and doors, to reduce the effect of external temperatures on the cargo.

The right to maintain a course according to the Rules of Navigation. When two boats are on intersecting courses, one is the "stand-on" vessel (has "right of way" and must hold its course steady) so the other "give-way" vessel may steer clear. ...

Container freight station or a designated area where empty containers can be picked up or dropped off.

Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) is an ether compound used as a gasoline blending component to raise the oxygen content of gasoline. MTBE is made by combining isobutylene (from various refining and chemical processes) and methanol (usually made from nat ...

See hurricane beacon.

A shipwrecked sailor as compared with one who has been marooned or deliberately put ashore.

Transmit high-voltage electricity from the transformer to the electric distribution system.

A filtering unit for vented enclosures installed to prevent dirt and foreign matter from entering the enclosure.

The number of stocks participating in either a rally or a.

A tariff imposed to discourage sale of foreign goods, subsidized to sell at low prices detrimental to local manufacturers.

A financial institution such as a merchant bank which provides its services to launch the shares of.

An instrument for measuring snow hardness in terms of the resistance of snow to the pressure exerted by a disk attached to a spring-loaded rod, a gauge calibrated in pounds per square inch registers the amount of resistance. See Canadian hardness gauge.