A slot into which the bolt rope or lugs in the luff of the sail are inserted to attach the sail.

A document that establishes the terms of a contract between a shipper and a transportation company. It serves as a document of title, a contract of carriage and a receipt for goods.

Surrounded by land.

Is pressure as determined by most instruments and gauges.

Relay to all others in order (a signal repeated from one ship to the next astern in column).

To deliberately put a sailor ashore and leave him there while the ship sails away.

Foaming water that rises upward immediately before stem of any craft being propelled through water.

Capacity of a compressor is the full rated volume of flow of gas compressed and delivered at certain set conditions.

ACRONYM - National Pipe Thread tapered. A description of a specific pipe thread

Is the temperature existing at the discharge port of the compressor.

A bun-shaped cover placed over a radar scanner to prevent risk of fouling and to protect it from the weather.

Covers for closing up hatchways.

Cargo to/from regional ports are transferred to/from a central hub port for a long-haul ocean voyage.

See Gunwhale

The ratio of the vapor pressure to the saturated vapor pressure at the temperature considered.

The temperature which would be measured at the stagnation point if a gas stream were stopped, with adiabatic compression from the flow condition to the stagnation pressure.

The porous device which perform the actual process of filtration.

Circular blocks in the shrouds or stays to adjust tension.

The process of coating one metal with another, ordinarily applied to the coating of iron or steel with zinc. The chief purpose of galvanizing is to prevent corrosion.

An unauthoritative story (a tall story).