Originally a seaman who, not wanting to work, preferred to exist by hanging around ports and harbors and living on the charity of others. Now more generally describing any loafer around the waterfront who prefers not to work.

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A derelict seaman found unemployed on the waterfront, especially in a foreign country (seaman without a ship).

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A lighted or unlighted fixed (non-floating) aid to navigation that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. (Lights and daybeacons both constitute "beacons.")

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A ring used to attach certain bellow type flexible members of an air actuators to the mounting surface.

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A form of movable insulation that uses tiny polystyrene beads blown into the space between two window panes.

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Name given to the metal point or ram fixed on the bows of old war galleys and used to pierce the hulls, and thus sink or disable enemy ships.

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(1) The transverse measurement of a boat at its widest point. Also called breadth. (2) One of the transverse members of a ship's frames on which the decks are laid.

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Vessel said to be "on her beam ends" when she is lying over so much that her deck beams are nearly vertical.

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Solar radiation that is not scattered by dust or water droplets.

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A point of sail where the boat is sailing at a right angle to the wind (wind coming from abeam). A beam reach is usually the fastest point of sail. A beam reach is a point of sail between a broad reach and a close reach.

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A situation in which waves strike a boat from the side, causing it to roll unpleasantly.

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One which blows across a boat's side

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A wind at right angles to a vessel's course (wind blowing at the ship's side.)

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Wide, a wide boat is a beamy boat

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An investor who believes share prices are going to fall. He therefore sells shares, sometimes.

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An object bears so and so, when it is in such a direction from the person looking. To bear down upon a vessel, is to approach her from the windward.To bear up, is to put the helm up and keep a vessel off from her course, and move her to leeward.To bear aw ...

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To assist or help.

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To turn the boat away from the wind. Also, Fall Off. The opposite of heading up.

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The purchase of a call with a high strike price against the sale of a call with a lower strike.

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To approach something from upwind

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