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Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..

Water Line :: Water line () Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Radeau :: Radeau (n.) A float; a raft.

Floatable :: Floatable (a.) That may be floated.

Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..

Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed..

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

Aeroplane :: Aeroplane (n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it..

Floating :: Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt..

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

Careen :: Careen (v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel..

Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..

Physograde :: Physograde (n.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia..

Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Floatiersman :: Floatiersman (n.) A man living on the frontier.

Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..

Drive :: Drive (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

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