A barge equipped with tracks on which up to about 12 railroad cars are moved in harbors or inland waterways.

A boat is double banked, when two oars, one opposite the other, are pulled by men seated on the same thwart.

(1) The last position on a chart, when a ship is leaving the land.(2) The number of nautical miles that one place is eastwards or westwards of another. (3)The easting or westing made by a vessel. The bearing of an object on the coast from which a vessel c ...

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A track or groove in the back of the mast to which the sail is attached by means of lugs or the bolt rope.

Equipment used for serving meals.

To watch a vessel at anchor at the turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and some sail if necessary, so as to keep turns out of her cables.

When the water has large or breaking waves in stormy conditions.

That part of a ship's bow where the hawse holes and hawse pipes are situated.

A loop shaped fitting attached to the deck, spar, boom, etc., used to secure a line or block to some part of the vessel.

Enormous sea monster supposed to have been seen off coasts of America and Norway. Sometimes mistaken for an island.

A pin placed through the head of a rudder to prevent it from being lost.

A fabric, usually synthetic, used to make sails.

To heave in until the vessel is riding nearly over her anchor.

To unfold or unroll a sail. The opposite of furl.

An object used as a reference point while navigating.

Indirect heat exchanger designed to transfer heat from combustion gas to the air stream added to the combustion zone.

Maintaining position over the ground when underway in a river or tidal stream.

A law of chemistry and physics: the rate of diffusion of one substance in another is proportional to the negative gradient of the concentration of the first substance.

The inside center strand of rope.