Abbreviation for "Trailer Load."

Sailor's term for being about to get married, a splice being used to join two ropes together.

General term used to denote all activities connected with the catching of fish by any means.

Pre-Cooling of intake air for compressors and Blowers.

The smaller of two mating or meshing gears; can be either the driving or the driven gear.

A pattern or template. Also a shape of metal or wood over or in which an object may be hammered or pressed to fit.

The process of connecting a moving rail car with a motionless rail car within a rail classification yard in order to make up a train. The cars move by gravity from an incline or "hump" onto the appropriate track.

The bearing which supports the propeller shaft where it emerges from the ship.

To subject petroleum oil to heat for breaking down into lighter products.

Surface resistance to relative motion, which slows down movement and causes heat.

Country, island or territory the vessel visits.

To stop the running out of a line by taking a turn around a cleat, piling, etc.; to suddenly stop or secure a line. A ship with too much way can be snubbed by letting an anchor go.

To run a line completely through and out of a block, fairlead, etc.

Letter of credit in which the specified payment is guaranteed by the bank if all terms and conditions are met by the drawee and which cannot be revoked without joint agreement of both the buyer and the seller.

The naval architect's drawings of a ship showing the various sections.

The tallest mast; the forward mast of a yawl or ketch; the mast furthest aft on a schooner

Cargo shipped in loose condition and of a homogeneous nature.Cargoes that are shipped unpackaged either dry, such as grain and ore, or liquid, such as petroleum products. Bulk service generally is not provided on a regularly scheduled basis, but rather as ...

Liquefied Natural Gas, or a carrier of LNG.

A sail plan in which the main and/or mizzen, or the foresail of a schooner, is of triangular shape, very long in the luff and set from a tall mast. This is almost now universal in all sailing yachts.