Seamen who worked on the masts and yards of square-rigged ships.

(1) A line by which the end of a spar is hoisted or lowered. (2) A line that holds up the boom when it is not being used. (3) A line from the upper mast which controls the height of the spinnaker pole.

A schooner with a square rigged sail on the forward mast.

Above the main deck.

Torsional moment or couple. It usually refers to the driving couple of a machine or motor.

A unit of pressure used with vacuum pumps, equal to 1mm of mercury and 133.32 Pascal's.

To throw an oar out of the rowlock, and raise it perpendicularly on its end, and lay it down in the boat, with its blade forward.

The total electrical power input to a compressor, including drive motor, cooling fan, motors, controls, etc.

To touch the ground, with the keel, for a minute or so and then proceed again.

Tanker Owners Voluntary Agreement concerning Liability for Oil Pollution Agreement between most tankers owners who agree to pay jointly for clean-up costs in case of pollution by oil discharge from one of their vessel.

When one or more vessels are being towed; when a tug is towing one or more floating objects; to pull an object in the water by means of a rope.

To pull a boat with another boat, such as a tugboat towing a barge. When used as a noun, it refers to the vessel being towed.

To pull through water; vessels towed.

Charges for the services of tugs assisting a ship or other vessels in ports or other locations; the act of towing a ship or other objects from one place to another.

The charge made for towing a vessel.

(1) Prospective course over the ground for boat to follow. (2) A strip of metal attached to a mast to take the slides affixed to the luff of a sail.

The path of the vessel.

Unit of highway motive power used to pull one or more trailers/containers.

A time or a date draft that has been accepted by the buyer (the drawee) for payment at maturity.

Steady regular winds in a belt approximately 30