A charge made for a service performed in a carrier's terminal area.

European Union

Companie d'Affretement

Based upon damage patterns, classifies twisters into six categories of wind speed (F0 thru F5), ranging from 40 to 318 mph estimated wind speed.

Reversing

Working Party on Electricity (IACS)

To sail closer to the wind than another boat on the same tack.

Slang for the leg irons which were used to secure men under punishment.

A municipal bond whose interest and principal payments are supported by the full faith and credit of.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (UK)

Portable Measurement Unit

Small

To Be Scrapped

Fisheries Training vessel.

Same as river gauge.

A device which surrounds a rain gauge and acts to maintain horizontal flow in the vicinity of the funnel so that the catch will not be influenced by eddies generated near the gauge. See Alter shield, Nipher shield, Wild fence.

Wash trading, bucketing, cross trading, or other types of trade to give the appearance of trading.

An individual crystal in a polycrystalline metal or alloy; it may or may not contain twinned regions and subgrains; a portion of a solid metal (usually a fraction of an inch in size), in which the atoms are arranged in an orderly pattern.

The top of the mast

The stock markets of countries which have a low per head income compared with the developed world.