The compartment at the bow of the vessel

To bind together in order to increase tension or to prevent from blowing loose.

Sufficient movement through the water to allow the boat to be controlled and steered by the rudder.

A dust-collection chamber containing numerous permeable fabric filters through which the exhaust gases pass. Finer particulates entrained in the exhaust gas stream are collected in the filters for subsequent treatment/disposal.

Of, relating to, or using air. Moved by air pressure. Filled with compressed air.

The after rail at the stern of a ship. Also called a Pushpit

A machine which aspirates gas which has already been compressed and delivers the same at higher pressure.

Shell or body of a ship.

Division of the circumference of the magnetic compass card into thirty-two points, each of 11

A harbor restriction placed on a ship which has an infectious disease on board, or which has arrived from a country where such a disease is prevalent. The crew may not go ashore until the ship is granted pratique.

Water service between two coasts; in the U.S., this usually refers to water service between the Atlantic and Pacific or Gulf Coasts.

Pounds per square inch, absolute.

Swing of the boom from one side of the ship to the other when the tack is changed.

In spray painting applications, Spray equipment which delivers material at a low pressure of no more than 10 PSI (at the air cap), however, with greater volume of air.

The weight of water vapor in the air vapor mixture per pound of dry air.

Areas of corrosion.

Shipper's communication(s) to its agent and/or directly to the international water-carrier. Instructions may be varied, e.g., specific details/clauses to be printed on the B/L, directions for cargo pickup and delivery.

see Devil

A line used to control the tension along a sail's luff in order to maintain proper sail shape.

The study of the earth's waters.