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A horn type of vent designed to let air into a cabin and keep water out.

A hard-chined dinghy with flared sides, considered a useful weight-carrying work boat.

A positive displacement type compressor.

An old term for getting married.

Any Boat Designed with a pointed bow and stern

To double a vessel's mooring lines.

To take down a sail quickly; the entire action of getting a sail out of the wind and furling it.

Line attached to the bottom of the boom used to flatten the sail by pulling the boom down, and thus tightening the luff of the sail. (2) A line used for hauling down a jib or staysail.

The portion of the flow stream which has already passed through the system or the portion of the system located after a filter or separator/filter.

In the direction the wind is blowing. A boat sailing downwind, away from the wind source with the sails let out all the way, is running with the wind.

To take in, or lower a sail. To put out a light. To cover with water.

The depth of a ship in the water. The vertical distance between the waterline and the keel, in the U.S. expressed in feet, elsewhere in meters.

The depth of the boat below the waterline; the amount of vertical distance from a boats water line to the bottom of it's keel.(2) The depth of water necessary to float a vessel(3) The belly or chord depth of the sail, its fullness

The number of feet that the hull of a ship is beneath the surface of the water.

The distance from the surface of the water to the ship's keel (how deep the ship is into the water).

On ships, the stern and stem are marked in feet to show the draft or depth of the vessel.

An order issued by a seller against a purchaser; directs payment, usually through an intermediary bank. Typical bank drafts are negotiable instruments and are similar in many ways to checks on checking accounts in a bank.

A draft to which no documents are attached.

A draft that matures on a fixed date, regardless of the time of acceptance.

A time draft under a letter of credit that has been accepted and purchased by a bank at a discount.