Wind-bound. When a vessel is kept in port by a head wind.

An occasional sprinkling dashed from the top of a wave by the wind, or by its striking an object.

A point of sail where the boat is sailing away from the wind, but not directly downwind; Sailing with the wind coming from any direction from abeam to on the quarter, with the bow approximately 135 degrees to the wind source and the sails let out nearly a ...

The bottom of a wave, the valley between the crests.

The seller must deliver the goods to a pier and place them within reach of the ship's loading equipment. See Terms of Sale.

A container fitted with a rear door and a minimum of one side door.

This property is the ratio of the specific weight of air or gas to that of dry air at the same pressure and temperature.

Unit of highway motive power used to pull one or more trailers/containers.

A watertight cockpit with scuppers, drains, or bailers that remove water.

Small line used for whipping other light duties.

Pieces of ice, about the size of a small house, that have broken off a glacier.

Passing another vessel.

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

A position of a flag when lowered part way in salute (method of salute between vessels, like planes dipping wings).

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.

To attach a boat to a mooring, dock, post, anchor, etc.

To mark a course on a chart.

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.

DC. A continuous, one directional flow of electricity.(2) A type of electricity transmission and distribution by which electricity flows in one direction through the conductor; usually relatively low voltage and high current; typically abbreviated as dc.