General term used to denote all activities connected with the catching of fish by any means.

The quantity of contaminant a filter element can trap and hold before the maximum allowable back pressure or delta P level is reached.

Funds sent by one person to another as payment.

To stop the running out of a line by taking a turn around a cleat, piling, etc.; to suddenly stop or secure a line. A ship with too much way can be snubbed by letting an anchor go.

To run a line completely through and out of a block, fairlead, etc.

Surface resistance to relative motion, which slows down movement and causes heat.

The smaller of two mating or meshing gears; can be either the driving or the driven gear.

Country, island or territory the vessel visits.

A slang name for a bullying officer on a ship.

A pattern or template. Also a shape of metal or wood over or in which an object may be hammered or pressed to fit.

(1) A piece of equipment used to drive piles into the ground. (2) Name given to a ship which because of her short length, cannot ride two consecutive waves, and pitches violently into the second.

The process of connecting a moving rail car with a motionless rail car within a rail classification yard in order to make up a train. The cars move by gravity from an incline or "hump" onto the appropriate track.

Pre-Cooling of intake air for compressors and Blowers.

A sail plan in which the main and/or mizzen, or the foresail of a schooner, is of triangular shape, very long in the luff and set from a tall mast. This is almost now universal in all sailing yachts.

Any system, usually block & tackle or hydraulic, used to hold the boom down. This is useful for maintaining proper sail shape by exerting a downward pull on the boom, particularly when running or on a broad reach.

Person who decoys a seaman from his ship and gains money by robbing and, or, forcing him on board another vessel in want of men.

To trim the sheets in.

A verb with a variety of meanings. To round in is to haul in quickly; to round up is to bring a sailing vessel head into the wind; to round down a tackle is to overhaul it; to round a mark is to pass a racing mark.

The bearing which supports the propeller shaft where it emerges from the ship.