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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grapeshot

Transportation; Nautical

small balls of lead fired from a cannon, analogous to shotgun shot on a larger scale. Similar to canister shot but with larger individual shot. Used to injure personnel and damage ...

grave

Transportation; Nautical

to clean a ship’s bottom.

grog

Transportation; Nautical

watered-down pusser's rum consisting of half a gill with equal part of water, issued to all seamen over twenty. (CPOs and POs were issued with neat rum) From the British Admiral ...

groggy

Transportation; Nautical

drunk from having consumed a lot of grog.

grounding

Transportation; Nautical

when a ship (while afloat) touches the bed of the sea, or goes "aground"

gybe (or jibe)

Transportation; Nautical

to change from one tack to the other away from the wind, with the stern of the vessel turning through the wind. When ready to gybe the helmsman or skipper calls "Ready to gybe", ...