A transportation arrangement in which truck trailers with their loads are moved by train to a destination. Also known as Rail Pigs.

To know and to be able to recite the points of a compass from north to south to north again, both clockwise and counter-clockwise.

Sailor's slang for anchor.

A trailer or semi-trailer with no sides and with the floor of the unit close to the ground.

A small channel or opening in a filter medium which allows passage of gas.

Long bars or bolts with a padlock on the end, on which iron shackles could slide, which were used on board ship to confine the legs of prisoners.

Is a process taking place under constant temperature. To compress the gas from state 1 to state 2, heat must be removed to keep the temperature constant. The pressure change is reciprocal to the change in specific volume.

A pneumatic device with a rotary output. Typically of a vane or rack-and-pinion construction.

A pillar or handhold on a boat - Hand-hold fittings mounted on cabin tops and sides for personal safety when moving around the boat.

A single masted cutter built expressly for the prevention of smuggling and the enforcement of customs regulations.

Crew store managed by crew members offering everything from snacks to toiletries. Originally the name given to clothing that was issued to seamen.

A pointed spar driven into the bottom and projecting above the water; when driven at the corners of a dock, they are termed fender piles.

A name usually given to a State body having control or regulation of public utilities.

To take in the slack and secure the standing rigging.

Joining the ends of two lines without increasing the thickness over the length of the splice, so that the splice will pass freely through a block.

Division of the circumference of the magnetic compass card into thirty-two points, each of 11

Maintenance performed after a machine has failed to return it to an operating state.

Prepare for going to sea, extra lashing on all movable objects.

Is any gas or gas mixture that contains no water vapor and/or in which all of the constituents are substantially above their respective saturated vapor pressures at the existing temperature.

A device actuated by inlet static pressure and designed to open during an emergency or abnormal condition to prevent a rise of internal pressure in excess of a specified value.