To bind together in order to increase tension or to prevent from blowing loose.

An able-bodied seamen entrusted with the steering of a vessel when entering or leaving a harbor. He is also involved with the use and upkeep of navigational equipment.

Damage Free Car. Boxcars equipped with special bracing material.

Shippers load and count. All three clauses are used as needed on the bill of lading to exclude the carrier from liability when the cargo is loaded by the shipper.

A closed rail freight car.

Is the total gas pressure (static plus velocity) at the discharge port of the compressor. Velocity pressure is considered only with dynamic compressors.

Very small wooden pail having one stave prolonged to form a handle. Used as a bailer in a boat.

Said of a vessel that is firm, strong, and unlikely to develop leaks.

The study of the earth's waters.

On a square-rigged ship, a light weather sail set next above the topgallant-sail in fair weather.

Abbreviation for "Container Freight Station." A shipping dock where cargo is loaded ("stuffed") into or unloaded ("stripped") from containers. Generally, this involves less than containerload shipments, although small shipments destined to same consignee ...

Tools that operate by air pressure.

To take down a sail quickly; the entire action of getting a sail out of the wind and furling it.

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

To take in the slack and secure the standing rigging.

A rail fastened along the inside of the bulwarks of a vessel and pierced to hold belaying pins

A bridge that swings away from the waterway so that boats may pass beside it.

Resistance to flow. Defined as the difference in pressure upstream and downstream.

Side stays from the masthead to the rail..

Open ocean sailing