To bring a sailing vessel to a stop with her sails still set. This can be accomplished on a square rigged ship by bracing the yards aback on her foremast; on fore-and-aft rigged boats it is done by bringing her head into the wind so that the sails are no ...

The upper deck rail along both sides of a vessel to prevent anyone on board from falling overboard.

Seller is responsible for the cost of placing the goods at a named point of exportation. Some European buyers use this form when they actually mean FOB vessel.

In spray painting applications, Spray equipment which delivers material at a low pressure of no more than 10 PSI (at the air cap), however, with greater volume of air.

The compartment at the bow of the vessel

The westerly distance in an arc from Aries, measured as an angle at the pole or as the intercepted arc of the equinoctial between the hour angle of Aries and the hour angle of the body.

SOnar Navigation and Ranging - A device which emits pulses of high frequency sound which are reflected by any solid object they encounter. The time from the emission of the pulse and the arrival of its returning echo is measured, giving a range to the obj ...

A machine which aspirates gas which has already been compressed and delivers the same at higher pressure.

Brass work, polished (also varnished wood work in yachts).

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.

Lie at anchor

An announced warning of an approach of a storm.

Fresh water mixed with sea water, having a density between 1,000 and 1,026 kg/cm3

When flogging a seaman, to run the fingers through the Cat-O'-Nine-Tails after each stroke to separate the strands in preparation for the next stroke.

A dining room on a ship.

Is the reversal of flow within a dynamic compressor that takes place when the capacity being handled is reduced to a point where insufficient pressure is being generated to maintain flow. Also known as surge.

Persons and property carried by transport lines.

- A hitch used for bending a line to a spar, which if tied properly, won't slip. The end of the line is passed around the spar and then passed a second time around so it rides over the standing part. Then it is carried across and up through the bight.

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

A point through which all buoyant forces on an immersed hull are assumed to act.