Transportation

Transportation

Any mode or method of locomotion that serves to move people, goods or services from one location to another.

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earrings

Transportation; Nautical

small lines, by which the uppermost corners of the largest sails are secured to the yardarms.

echo sounding

Transportation; Nautical

measuring the depth of the water using a sonar device. Also see sounding and swinging the lead.

embayed

Transportation; Nautical

the condition where a sailing vessel (especially one which sails poorly to windward) is confined between two capes or headlands by a wind blowing directly onshore.

engine order telegraph

Transportation; Nautical

a communications device used by the pilot to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed. Also Chadburn.

extremis

Transportation; Nautical

also known as “in extremis”, the point under International Rules of the Road (Navigation Rules) at which the privileged (or stand-on) vessel on collision course with a burdened ...