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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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overfalls

Transportation; Nautical

dangerously steep and breaking seas due to opposing currents and wind in a shallow area, or strong currents over a shallow rocky bottom.

overhaul

Transportation; Nautical

hauling the buntline ropes over the sails to prevent them from chaffing.

over-reaching

Transportation; Nautical

when tacking, holding a course too long.

over the barrel

Transportation; Nautical

adult sailors were flogged on the back or shoulders while tied to a grating, but boys were beaten instead on the posterior (often bared), with a cane or cat, while bending, often ...

overwhelmed

Transportation; Nautical

capsized or foundered.

ox-eye

Transportation; Nautical

a cloud or other weather phenomenon that may be indicative of an upcoming storm.

panting

Transportation; Nautical

the pulsation in and out of the bow and stern plating as the ship alternately rises and plunges deep into the water