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

(HRP)A scheme which preserves your rights to a basic state pension during periods when you are caring for.

A plan which offers elderly people the opportunity of raising cash on their property. A.

A credit line offered by banks and mortgage lenders which grants the homeowner the opportunity of.

A form of property insurance which provides cover against such items as damage to the building,.

The region between an n-layer and a p-layer in a single material, photovoltaic cell.

Slang for anchor

An instrument used to measure changes in the level of the water in an evaporation pan. The gauge is normally placed in a Stillwell and adjusted so that the point of the hook just breaks the water surface. The change in water level is read on the attached ...

An instrument used to measure changes in the level of the water in an evaporation pan. The gauge is normally placed in a Stillwell and adjusted so that the point of the hook just breaks the water surface. The change in water level is read on the attached ...

On gaff-rigged sailing vessels the luff of the mainsail is secured to the mast by wooden hoops, which slide up or down the mast as the sail is raised or lowered.

Jail

A barge which loads material dumped into it by a dredger and discharges the cargo through the bottom.

Horizontal

Where the water and sky or ground and sky appear to intersect.

See: 'calendar.

Turbines in which the axis of the rotor's rotation is parallel to the wind stream and the ground.

A heavy longitudinal timber that angles upward from the stern to support the underside of the fantail.

(1) The points of the jaws of a boom or gaff where they embrace the mast. (2) The outer ends of the crosstrees.

Areas of the ocean lying between the mostly westerly winds of the higher latitudes, and the trade winds. These areas usually have prolonged calms, and in the older days of sail it could take quite a while to clear out of this area, by which time the seame ...

The latitudes on the outer margins of the trades where the prevailing winds are light and variable.