An amount added or deducted from base rate to make a rate to or from some other point or via another route.

Specific Power Consumption.

A fitting of wood or metal, with horns, used for securing lines (tying up).

A small toggle used on a flag.

To sail around the world

A machine that compresses air, gases.

On a bellow type air actuator, that part of the flexible member forming an annular protrusion larger than the O.D. of the end retainers or bead rings.

As close to the wind as possible, with all sails full, and no wrinkles in them.

States that the volume of a gas, at constant pressure, varies directly with the absolute temperature.

A crane, with its boom structure consisting of several sections, each section being capable of telescoping along the boom’s axial direction and changing its boom length, and its boom being of luffing.

This is the covering form or letter sent by a bank or seller asking that the enclosed shipping documents and bill of exchange are released to a buyer to be accepted or paid.

The radio operator.

A valve that permits flow in one direction only.

Decorative ropework with an even number of strands to form a herring-bone pattern.

Ship's intercom system

A rate applicable to or from a group of points.- A special rate applicable to several different articles in a single shipment.

In the US, an individual or firm who directly or indirectly advises others about buying or selling.

A hawser or line attached to an anchor.

A representation on a plane surface of the spherical surface of the earth. The equivalent of a map for use by navigators.

(1) A point of sail between close-hauled and a run, with the wind coming from abeam. (2) A distance, or fetch. (3) Straight stretch of water between two bends in a river or channel.