The area of sea not under the sovereignty of nations with a seaboard.

Words incorporated when signing under duress and not concurring entirely with import of document signed, and after stating grounds of non-concurrence.

Heat exchangers for removing the heat of compression between stages of a compressor.

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

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.

On square-rigged ships, a small light square sail set above the skysail in fair weather. If the sail were triangular, it would be called a Skyscraper.

The navigable water to leeward of a vessel.

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

The moisture content of air.

To leave; to push a boat away from a pier or vessel's side.

A time draft under a letter of credit that has been accepted and purchased by a bank at a discount.

Line attached to the bottom of the boom used to flatten the sail by pulling the boom down, and thus tightening the luff of the sail. (2) A line used for hauling down a jib or staysail.

2,240 pounds (1016.05 kilograms)

(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.

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.

Articles which are taken apart to reduce the cubic footage displaced or to make a better shipping unit and are to be re-assembled.

Location where cargo enters the care and custody of carrier.

A call on the bo'sun's pipe at night for the hands to turn in, for silence in the messdecks, and for lights to be extinguished. Also a term used by a sailor to another to make them stop talking.

Said of a boat which turns end over end in very rough seas.

Wooden shoulders attached below the masthead to either side of a wooden mast which originally supported the trestle trees.