A method of payment for goods in which cash is paid at the time of order and the transaction becomes binding on both buyer and seller.

The ratio of the actual water-vapor partial pressure to its saturation pressure at the same temperature. (considered only with atmospheric air).

Where the water and sky or ground and sky appear to intersect.

The breaking-up of paint into fine particles or droplets by a paint gun using compressed air.

A vessel whose bow and stern have drooped. The opposite of sagged.

A group of points to which rates are made the same as or in relation to rates to other points in group.

To coil flat down on deck, each fake outside the other, beginning in the middle and all close together.

Sailing with the motor on and in gear

Shipped under rate that includes cost from end of ship's tackle at load port to end of ship's tackle at discharge port.

Said of a man who goes to sea as a rating compared with officers, and lives forward. Forward of a mast.

Imaginary lines drawn through the north and south poles on the globe used to measure distance east and west of the prime meridian at Greenwich, England (designated as 0

Area of high barometric pressure where the wind circulates clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, and counter-clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. These are fair weather systems with light or moderate winds.

To reach the end; to bring one object hard up against another, as when two blocks in a block and tackle arrangement are brought together.

The curved part of a ship's hull where the side and the flat bottom meet.

It is the weight of the column of air existing above the earths surface at 45

To spin out of control and capsize or nearly capsize; The turning of a boat broadside to the wind or waves, subjecting it to possible capsizing; a turning or swinging of the boat that puts the beam of the boat against the waves, creating a danger of swamp ...

A ring-shaped fitting into which the rudder pintle is inserted which allows the rudder to pivot.

A label required on shipments of flammable articles.

(1) To lay a line out in coils so that it can run without fouling. (2) Folding a sail in layers on the boom.

Complete encirclement of a cleat, bollard, pin or winch by a line.