An illegal form of discounting or refunding that has the net effect of lowering the tariff price. See also Malpractice.

Anchor is off the sea bottom when being heaved in .

Vessel moves to a new area for a new season.

Any object used to increase the drag of a boat and slow her down. Typically shaped like a parachute or cone opened underwater, drogues decrease a boat's speed in heavy weather. Also see sea anchor.

To lash up.

An old method of cleaning a vessels bottom by burning off weed, barnacles or other growth while the vessel was in dry dock or careened. Breaming was also known as graving.

To turn the boat away from the wind. Also, Fall Off. The opposite of heading up.

The maximum rate at which an engine can do work as measured by the resistance of an applied brake. Expressed in horsepower.

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

The direction at right angles to a ship's heading or the line of her keel

A gas produced by many fruits and vegetables that accelerates the ripening and aging processes.

The top of a wave.

A horseshoe-shaped or circular reef of coral surrounding a lagoon.

The amount of work done on or by a system is equal to the amount of energy transferred to or from the system.

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

A negatively charged ion.

Is a standardized method to determine the carbon formation characteristics of compressor lubricants.

Money paid by shipper to Master of ship for diligence in care of cargo. Not now paid to Master, but added to freight. Amount was usually about 1% of freight.

(Free On Board) (...Named Port of Shipment):An International Term of Sale that means the seller fulfills his or her obligation to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship's rail at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear ...

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.