A compressor belonging to the group of displacement reciprocating compressors.

A very strong sail used in stormy weather. It is loose footed, being attached to the mast, but not the boom. This helps prevent boarding waves from damaging the sail or the rigging.

Ties used to tie up the sails when they are furled to the boom or yards.

Letters, numbers, and other symbols placed on cargo packages to facilitate identification. Also known as marks.

A large, swelling wave. To surge a rope or cable, is to slack it up suddenly where it renders round a pin, or round the windlass or capstan.urge ho! The notice given when a cable is to be surged.

Machines in which air or gas is compressed by the mechanical action of rotating vanes or impellers imparting velocity and pressure to the flowing medium. (Raise the pressure of the air by converting the energy from the velocity of the air to pressure.)

A sailor's paradise where amusements were plentiful, and the women were accommodating.

The tide with the least variation in water level, occurring when the moon is one quarter and three quarters full. The lowest high tide and the highest low tide occur at neap tide. The opposite is the spring tide.

To receive goods from a foreign country.

An instrument that can be modified or cancelled at any moment without notice to and agreement of the beneficiary, but customarily includes a clause in the credit to the effect that any draft negotiated by a bank prior to the receipt of a notice of revocat ...

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.

Opposite of absorption or adsorption. In filtration, it relates to the downstream release of particles previously retained by the filter.

The official who is in charge of a harbor, enforcing all its applicable regulations.

A single block such as a snatch block used as a fairlead to bring a line in a more favorable direction.

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.

Difference in air or gas temperature between the outlet of the intercooler and the inlet of the compressor.

A wind moving from the land to the water due to temperature changes in the evening, where the temperature of the land falls below the sea temperature.

A passenger or cargo-carrying ship which is operated between scheduled, advertised ports of loading and discharge on a regular basis.

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.