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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 structure perpendicular to the shoreline to which a vessel is secured for the purpose of loading and unloading cargo.

A steamship. A ship propelled by a steam engine.

A sail attached to the boom at the tack and clew, but not along the foot, or a fore-and-aft sail which is set without a boom.

Liquefied Natural Gas, or a carrier of LNG.

Floating wreckage from a shipwreck.

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.

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

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

Location where cargo enters the care and custody of carrier.

A verb with a variety of meanings. To round in is to haul in quickly; to round up is to bring a sailing vessel head into the wind; to round down a tackle is to overhaul it; to round a mark is to pass a racing mark.

Pull the sail in by pulling on the sheet.

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.

(1) A piece of equipment used to drive piles into the ground. (2) Name given to a ship which because of her short length, cannot ride two consecutive waves, and pitches violently into the second.

Said of a vessel when forced to heave to or lie at anchor due to fog.

The pressure which overcomes the total resistances in a system. It includes all losses as well as useful work.

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.

Country, island or territory the vessel visits.