A panel which covers the underside of an roof overhang, cantilever, or mansard.

A security which gives the holder the right to acquire a share or bond at a specific price and date..

Insurance provided for company employees by employers. Items covered may include health insurance,.

When an anchored vessel is forced, by wind or current, to swing across her anchor so as to risk fouling it with her own cable, she is said to break sheer.

To bind together in order to increase tension or to prevent from blowing loose.

is an ideal process that may be stopped and made to retrace its steps and restore to the systems or surroundings all work and heat previously removed. It is frictionless.

Difference between minimum and maximum pressures for an air compressor. Also called cut in-cut out or load-no load pressure range.

A type of water heater in which heated water is stored within the tank. Hot water is released from the top of the tank when a hot water faucet is turned. This water is replaced with cold water that flows into the tank and down to just above the bottom pla ...

Preferred stock with dividend payment priority following a missed dividend payment. This amount.

Additional days which may be allowed by a company to a debtor over and above the due date for.

Equipped to extract petroleum, e.g. oil production ship.

A pneumatic device with a rotary output. Typically of a vane or rack-and-pinion construction.

Let the sail out by easing the sheet.

Atmospheric layer throughout which there is no change of temperature with height, i.e. a zero lapse rate.

Tables prepared from the psychrometric formula and used to obtain vapor pressure, relative humidity, and dew point from values of wet-bulb and dry-bulb temperatures.

To sail towards the direction from which the wind blows by making a series of tacks. A point of sail also known as sailing close hauled.

Still, seaworthy, able.

A knot formed by taking the strands of the end of a line and tucking them over and under each other to prevent them from unraveling.

A support wire running from the upper part of the mast to the bow of the boat designed to pull the mast forward. A forestay that attaches slightly below the top of the mast can be used to help control the bend of the mast. The most forward stay on the boa ...

A winch used solely for warping, on which a rope may be wound under power but not stored.