Beat to windward to avoid being driven onto a lee shore.

A facility or enclosure in which air content and other conditions (such as temperature, humidity, and pressure) are controlled and maintained at a specific level by special facilities and operating processes and by trained personnel.

Hypocritical smile, or sneer.

Starting a compressor from a state of total shutdown. Usually done with "local" control at the compressor. May be done with "remote" control, but only advised with "heavy" instrumentation and monitoring accessories.

A kind of winch, which is applied for deep sea-bed material sampling, and performing the benthonic organism trawl survey.

A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer

A ring of rope made by splicing the ends, and used for slinging weights, holding the parts of a block together, etc. A rope, wire or iron binding, encircling a block and with a thimble seized into it for taking a hook.

Various pieces of rigging which hold a bowsprit in position.

Close alongside; very near; in close proximity to.

The captain or master of a ship.

An anti trust act of the U.S. Congress making price discrimination unlawful.

Term meaning smart or neat.

One whose occupation is to rig or unrig vessels.

Blue working overalls.

A number of yarns, twisted together and which in turn may be twisted into rope; a rope is stranded when a strain is broken; rope may be designated by the number of strands composing. Rope is commonly three-stranded. A vessel run ashore is said to be stran ...

A railroad yard with many tracks used for assembling freight trains.

Is a pipe coming from the top of the airline to feed air to an outlet for tools or air operated devices, so that condensation does not easily flow into the dropleg.

– The confirmed or official ship dimensions.

on square-rigged ships, a platform at the masthead resting on the trestletrees and crosstrees. In addition to being a work platform, it extended the topmast shrouds to give additional support to the topmast.

A system in which air supply is matched to demand by the starting and stopping of the unit.