To haul in or bind something together in order to create more space.

Broadly, insurance covering loss or damage of goods at sea. Marine insurance typically compensates the owner of merchandise for losses sustained from fire, shipwreck, etc., but excludes losses that can be recovered from the carrier.

Boat carried at davits on quarter of ship, and kept ready for immediate use when at sea.

(1) In good condition. (2) To adjust to proper shape or size.

A line led to a sail, but is not currently in use. The line currently in use is known as the working sheet. Usually the working and lazy sheets change when the boat is tacked.

The country in which the vessel is registered.

A deck exposed to the wind and sea.

Small staysail located between the foremast and mainmast.

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

A lighted or unlighted fixed (non-floating) aid to navigation that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. (Lights and daybeacons both constitute "beacons.")

A gauge that measures air flow as a percentage of capacity, used in rotary screw compressors as an estimator during modulation controls.

Recapitulation of the terms and conditions agreed

The top of a mast.

Having no sails up. In heavy weather the windage of the mast and other spars can still be enough to move the boat.

Is the ratio of the computed isentropic temperature rise to the measured total temperature rise during compression.

A depth measuring device.

A container fitted with a means of forced air ventilation.

Any person or entity who, in a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or to procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway or by a combination of such modes.

That part of a shaft or axle that rotates or angularly oscillates in or against a bearing or about which a bearing rotates or angularly oscillates.

Is a gas that follows the perfect gas laws without deviation. There is no such thing, however it is the basis from which calculations are made and corrections applied.