A large sail that is a cross between a spinnaker and a genoa. Hoisted without a pole, the tack is attached at the bottom of the headstay.

A carrier giving a customer illegal preference to attract cargo. This can take the form of a money refund (rebate); using lower figures than actual for the assessment of freight charges (undercubing); misdeclaration of the commodity shipped to allow the a ...

Pounds.

To fill the seams of a vessel with pitch.

Abbreviation for "Over, Short or Damaged" Usually discovered at cargo unloading.

A method of drying natural gas.

An expression describing a sailing ship set with every sail she can carry.

A plot of expected operating characteristics (e.g.., discharge pressure versus inlet capacity, shaft horsepower versus inlet capacity).

Itemized list of commodities with marks/numbers but no cost values indicated.

A stick with a blade in the end of it used to propel a small boat through the water; The act of using a paddle to propel a boat.

Reversing the position of an object or line.

A heavy colorless gas that does not support combustion but is formed by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances. Found in some ambient air conditions.

Is a positive displacement rotary compressor.

A beam which supports a deck.

An order to stop; as, "Avast heaving!"

The vertical absorption of a liquid into a porous material by capillary forces.

Method of payment for goods in which documents transferring title are given the buyer upon payment of cash to an intermediary acting for the seller, usually a commission house.

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

Is singular for media and is the material...paper, wire, cellulose or a combination... from which the filter element is made and which does the actual filtration or separation.

A compressor belonging to the group of displacement reciprocating compressors.