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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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highfield lever
Transportation; Nautical
a particular type of tensioning lever, usually for running backstays. Their use allows the leeward backstay to be completely slackened so that the boom can be let fully out.
hogging
Transportation; Nautical
when the peak of a wave is amidships, causing the hull to bend so the ends of the keel are lower than the middle. The opposite of sagging.
hold
Transportation; Nautical
in earlier use, below the orlop deck, the lower part of the interior of a ship's hull, especially when considered as storage space, as for cargo. In later merchant vessels it ...
holiday
Transportation; Nautical
a gap in the coverage of newly applied paint, slush, tar or other preservative.
holystone
Transportation; Nautical
a chunk of sandstone used to scrub the decks. The name comes from both the kneeling position sailors adopt to scrub the deck (reminiscent of genuflection for prayer), and the ...
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