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Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4..

Consign :: Consign (v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods..

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

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo..

Shipload :: Shipload (n.) The load, or cargo, of a ship..

Insure :: Insure (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured..

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..

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

Damageable :: Damageable (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo..

Seaworthy :: Seaworthy (a.) Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship..

Garnet :: Garnet (n.) A tackle for hoisting cargo in our out.

Unload :: Unload (v. t.) To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel..

Valuable :: Valuable (a.) Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo..

Barratry :: Barratry (n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo..

Condemn :: Condemn (v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Hold :: Hold (n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed..

Freightage :: Freightage (n.) Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.

Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard..

Fraughting :: Fraughting (a.) Constituting the freight or cargo.

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