A mop, formed of old rope, used for cleaning and drying decks.

Secretly, to remove spirit from a keg or cask by making a small hole and sucking through a straw. also called Suck the Monkey

Person who assists in saving life or property from a vessel wrecked near the coast. Often applied to a small boat that lies in narrow waters ready to wait on a vessel, if required.

An automatic or manual device designed to control pressure, flow or temperature.

Is one that does not enter into known chemical combination, either with itself or another element. There are four known gases of this type: helium; neon; argon and krypton. or a gas that does not supply any of the needs of combustion.

A port that is not directly listed in the tide tables but for which information is available as a difference from a nearby standard port.

(Free On Board) (...Named Port of Shipment):An International Term of Sale that means the seller fulfills his or her obligation to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship's rail at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear ...

On or near the line of immersion of a ship's hull.

To the bow of the boat, forward of the beam.

Merchant seaman's name for his bed or mattress.

Differences between the compass reading and an actual magnetic direction caused by magnetic forces in the vicinity of the compass, which are usually the result of masses of metal, speaker magnets, etc. (2) Vessel departure from specified voyage course.

The wheel of the block over which the fall of the block is rove.

Wide, a wide boat is a beamy boat

Small stuff seized across a hook to prevent it from unshipping (once hooked, mousing keeps the hook on).

Is that pressure of either motive fluid or discharge at which an ejector returns to stable operation following a period of unstable operation due to having previously reached the breaking pressure. There are two recovery pressures, one for motive fluid an ...

A hoisting apparatus consisting of a block and tackle rigged at the end of a beam.

A published rate that is never assessed because no freight moves under it.

A shortening of the term, "Roll On/Roll Off." A method of ocean cargo service using a vessel with ramps which allows wheeled vehicles to be loaded and discharged without cranes.

Heavy latch by which doors, hatches, portholes, etc., are secured; verb - to latch

Said of a vessel when the depth of water can be measured by the lead (within the 100 fathom curve).