Small, cake-shaped pieces of ice floating down rivers.

A development of the carrack, with the high forecastle eliminated.

A unit of illuminance; equal to one lumen per square foot.

A bond issued in sterling by a foreign institution or.

A piece of wood fitted in various places to act as a preventative to chafe.

Light rope secured to a buoy to hold vessel while stronger moorings are attached.

A method of signaling and communicating using two flags held in position by the signaler, the positions of the flags denoting the meaning.

A tall buoy used as a navigational aid.

A deposition process whereby heat is used to break molecules into elemental sources that are then spray deposited on a substrate.

Document listing all personal goods of crew members.

An outrigger used to hold a block clear of a mast or of the ship's side.

The truck unit into which freight is loaded as in tractor trailer combination. See Container.

A coating or precipitate deposited on surfaces such as water pipes, steam boilers that are in contact with hard water. Water that contains carbonates or bicarbonates of calcium or magnesium are likely to cause scale when heated.

(1) A knot used to secure a line to another object such as a ring or cylindrical object or to another line; (2) Common term for an enlistment.

A government office where duties are paid, import documents filed, etc., on foreign shipments.

A computerised database of some 50,000 investment firms which have been authorised to conduct.

The difference between the net asset value (NAV) per share of an investment trust and the share.

See 'time.

The structure perpendicular to the shoreline to which a vessel is secured for the purpose of loading and unloading cargo.

The distance between frames.