Term for a seaman's short leave from his ship, permitting him to go ashore for the day or night.

(1) A sailing vessel common in the Far East. It's flat-bottomed, high sterned, has square bows, and has two or three masts carrying lugsails. (2) Old and condemned rope.

A mast that is stepped (placed) on the deck of a boat rather than through the boat and keel stepped. The mast of a deck stepped boat is usually easier to raise and lower and are usually intended for lighter conditions than keel stepped boats.

Above the upper deck (above).

Practice of loading iron ore cargoes into every alternate hold, leaving the remaining holds empty.

Quantity of gas actually compressed and delivered to the discharge system at rated speed of the machine and under rated pressure conditions.

The interval between full moon and change of moon and the highest high tide.

Underwriters Lab.

The gingerbread woodwork on the stern of old sailing ships.

An old name for high waves when they break with a white crest.

Privilege to use the rate producing the lowest charge.

Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radiobeacons, and lighthouses, and to indicate safe and unsafe waters.

A line rove through a single block secured aloft.

Altitude

Nautical name for an argumentative person.

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. A mixture of individual gases. The gaseous mixture surrounding the earth. Standard density of dry air free of carbon dioxide (0

Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.

A representative of a government commission or agency vested with power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, take testimony, and conduct hearings of cases submitted to, or initiated by, that agency. Also called Hearing Examiner.

To sail large, with wind about four points abaft beam.

The angular distance North or South of the equator, measured from the center of the earth. It thus corresponds to latitude on the earths surface.