The interest rate at which the US Federal Reserve lends money to member.

The interest rate earned on money placed on deposit with banks and financial institutions.

Apparatus designed to measure the amount of precipitation falling in the form of snow. The device determines the weight of the snow or the volume of water after the snow melts.

To place pieces of dunnage in between pieces of cargo in order to prevent shifting of the cargo.

A thick serge jacket worn by seamen while keeping watch at night or in stormy weather.

An all around white light displayed at night by a ship when she is anchored.

A recess into the keel or a framework fixed to the keelson in which the mast is placed

A type of solar thermal system where sunlight is concentrated by a curved reflector onto a pipe containing a working fluid that can be used for process heat or to produce electricity. The world's largest solar thermal electric power plants use solar troug ...

Is the total gas pressure (static plus velocity) at the discharge port of the compressor. Velocity pressure is considered only with dynamic compressors.

To throw an oar out of the rowlock, and raise it perpendicularly on its end, and lay it down in the boat, with its blade forward.

Let the sail out by easing the sheet.

Short ton

Damage Free Car. Boxcars equipped with special bracing material.

Shortening of the old term "boatswain," an unlicensed member of the crew who supervises the work of the deck men under direction of the first mate.

A French or continental European stock.

An untidy loose end of a rope (or rags).

Flat bottomed vessel with a shallow draught.

A business firm which sells its services to organizations which operate vessels

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

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.