The Chancellor of the Exchequer's least favourite part of the economy - also known as the cash.

Nautical slang for the engineroom crew. Included the chief engineer, who ran the engine and supervised; oilers and wipers, who lubricated and maintained the engine; and firemen and coal-passers, who fed the steam boilers.

Member of the engine-room force, which included the engineers, firemen, oilers, and wipers.

(1) The flag traditionally flown by pirate ships. (2) The name given by sailors to the bubonic plague, whose victims were said to turn black.

A company (or person) making an unwanted, hostile bid for another.

The liquid material remaining from pulpwood cooking in the soda or sulfate paper-making process.

Monday 19th October 1987 when stock market values around the world fell heavily triggered by a large.

A black finish on a metal produced by immersing it in hot oxidizing salts or salt solutions.

Crude oils.

A sudden squall of wind accompanied by lightning.

Tuesday 29th October 1929 when stock prices on Wall Street.

September 16, 1992: the day the pound was driven out of the Exchange Rate.

A thermometer whose sensitive element has been made to resemble a black body by covering it with lamp black. The thermometer is placed in an evacuated transparent chamber which is maintained at a constant temperature. The instrument responds to insolation ...

The operation of tarring and blacking the rigging or hull to act as a preservative against the action of salt water. the best mixture was said to be coal tar, vegetable tar, and salt water boiled together and laid on hot.

A pricing model devised by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in 1973.

An ideal substance that absorbs all radiation falling on it, and reflecting nothing.

See B/L

To block the wind from the sails of a boat that is to leeward; a tactical maneuver whereby a boat uses its sails to blanket the competitor's wind, slowing him down; to take wind from a sail.

A bond covering a croup of persons, articles of properties.

A rate applicable to or from a group of points.- A special rate applicable to several different articles in a single shipment.