(1) An old term to denote a lazy sailor who is of little use on the ship. (2) Damaged goods, especially provisions.

An individual legally appointed by a court to settle the affairs of a deceased person who failed to.

Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels.

A continuous-recording barometer.

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Member of The Nautical Institute

National Economic Council

Notice of Protest (see LOP)

Commodity Box Rate.

A component made up of a cylinder barrel, end covers, a piston rod, a steel or stainless steel piston. A device which induces action or motion with compressed air being the medium through which the power is transmitted.

Joint Venture

All the months of a particular futures contract or futures option contract, for example, if all the.

A river gauge in which a weight suspended on a wire is lowered to the water surface from a bridge or other overhead structure to measure the distance from a point of known elevation to the water surface.

American National Standards Institute.

The fibrous material remaining after the extraction of juice from sugarcane; often burned by sugar mills as a source of energy.

A term of measure referring to 42 gallons of liquid at 60o F.

States that the pressure of a gas, at constant volume, varies directly with the absolute temperature.

(1) The metal present in the largest proportion in an alloy; brass, for example, is a copper-base alloy. (2) An active metal that readily oxidizes, or that dissolves to form ions. (3) The metal to be brazed, cut, soldered, or welded. (4) After welding, th ...

Single-celled organisms, free-living or parasitic, that break down the wastes and bodies of dead organisms, making their components available for reuse by other organisms.

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