Cargo-securing devices mounted in the floor of containers; allow lashing and securing of cargo.

Funds sent by one person to another as payment.

(1) A longitudinal crack in a mast or other spar. (2) The shivers of a sail when sailing too close to the wind. (3) As a verb, to let it out.

Seaman who was born aboard a warship. As this was once considered to be one of the essentials of the perfect seaman, it has long been a complimentary term.

Polytetrafluorethylene.

To break into a conversation.

Straps to hook your feet under in cockpit when hiking out.

The transverse partition between the cockpit and the cabin.

A steamship. A ship propelled by a steam engine.

A group of vessel operators joined together for the purpose of establishing freight rates.

Old expression for the engraving of the wind-rose on charts.

An inland location where cargo is received by the ocean carrier and then moved to a coastal port for loading.

Chemical species slated to replace CFCs in the near future.

A pneumatic percussive drill designed as a boring tool.

2,240 pounds (1016.05 kilograms)

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

Attempting to import merchandise into a country at a price less than the fair market value, usually through subsidy by exporting country.

A positive displacement type compressor.

all material and energy present in and around an operating system, such as dust, air moisture, chemicals, and thermal energy.

A pallet designed so that the forks of a fork lift truck can be inserted from all four sides. See Fork lift.