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Transportation
Any mode or method of locomotion that serves to move people, goods or services from one location to another.
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the doldrums
Transportation; Nautical
also called the "equatorial calms", is a nautical term for the equatorial trough, with special reference to the light and variable nature of the winds.
dolphin
Transportation; Nautical
a structure consisting of a number of piles driven into the seabed or riverbed in a circular pattern and drawn together with wire rope.
downhaul
Transportation; Nautical
a line used to control either a mobile spar, or the shape of a sail.
dressing down
Transportation; Nautical
1) treating old sails with oil or wat to renew them 2) a verbal reprimand
driver-mast
Transportation; Nautical
the fifth mast of a six-masted barquentine or gaff schooner. It is preceded by the jigger mast and followed by the spanker mast. The sixth mast of the only seven-masted vessel, ...
dunnage
Transportation; Nautical
1) loose packing material used to protect a ship's cargo 2) personal baggage
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