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Deck :: Deck (v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel..

Frap :: Frap (v. t.) To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together..

Sail :: Sail (n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.

Navigation :: Navigation (n.) The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

Lumper :: Lumper (n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.

Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..

Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.

Bilander :: Bilander (n.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland..

Deplete :: Deplete (a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine..

Crankness :: Crankness (n.) Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Skid :: Skid (n.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.

Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure..

Wheeler :: Wheeler (n.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.

Flask :: Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the

Steven :: Stevedore (n.) One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner..

Crare :: Crare (n.) A slow unwieldy trading vessel.

Run :: Run (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter..

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