Amount of time for a compressor to complete one cycle.

The amount of work done on or by a system is equal to the amount of energy transferred to or from the system.

To lash up.

An emergency signal flare that will float down on a parachute after launch, hopefully improving its visibility.

A contract for leasing between the ship owners and the lessee. It would state, e.g., the duration of the lease in years or voyages.

The curved part of a ship's hull where the side and the flat bottom meet.

(1) The edge where the deck joins the hull; top edge of bulwarks. (2) The railing around the deck.

To capsize.

A device which operates compressors in sequence according to a programmed schedule.

To approach something from upwind

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

Vessel said to be "on her beam ends" when she is lying over so much that her deck beams are nearly vertical.

An aid to taking as astronomical sight with a sextant when the sea horizon is obscured through haze, fog, or darkness.

see Watch

Where the water and sky or ground and sky appear to intersect.

Complete encirclement of a cleat, bollard, pin or winch by a line.

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 ...

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

Anchor cable is caught around the fluke or an object is caught around the anchor .

A group of points to which rates are made the same as or in relation to rates to other points in group.