A carrier giving a customer illegal preference to attract cargo. This can take the form of a money refund (rebate); using lower figures than actual for the assessment of freight charges (undercubing); misdeclaration of the commodity shipped to allow the a ...

A small vessel fitted for towing.

A rail around the mast or on the bulwarks with holes for belaying pins to which lines or halyards are attached.

Meddling or fooling around.

Person given a passage in one of H.M. ships; usually on compassionate grounds.

The tide with the least variation in water level, occurring when the moon is one quarter and three quarters full. The lowest high tide and the highest low tide occur at neap tide. The opposite is the spring tide.

Is singular for media and is the material...paper, wire, cellulose or a combination... from which the filter element is made and which does the actual filtration or separation.

A method of drying natural gas.

To make life onboard for the crew as uncomfortable as possible, by keeping them at work at all hours, often unnecessarily.

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

U.S. Commerce Department document, "Shipper's Export Declaration."

A phrase preceding the signature of a drawer or endorser of a negotiable instrument; signifies that the instrument is passed onto subsequent holders without any liability to the endorser in the event of nonpayment or nondelivery.

Abbreviation for "Over, Short or Damaged" Usually discovered at cargo unloading.

Order given to a boat's crew when going alongside under oars. Denotes that boat has sufficient way, and that oars are to be placed inside the boat.

The line to which a vessel is submerged with a full cargo on board.

Seaman's scornful name for any lead of a rope by which effort is lost or wasted.

Ties used to tie up the sails when they are furled to the boom or yards.

Nautical equivalent of ceiling

A board with cleats, forming a bridge reaching from a gangway of a vessel to the wharf.

A sailor's paradise where amusements were plentiful, and the women were accommodating.