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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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scandalize
Transportation; Nautical
to reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (slacking the peak and tricing up the tack) without properly reefing, thus slowing boat speed. Also used in the past ...
scow
Transportation; Nautical
1) a method of preapring an anchor for tripping by attaching an anchor cable to the crown and fixing to the ring by a light seizing (becue). 2) a type of clinker dinghy, usually ...
scudding
Transportation; Nautical
a term applied to a vessel when carried furiously along by a tempest.
scuttling
Transportation; Nautical
cutting a hole in an object or vessel, especially in order to sink a vessel deliberately.
sea anchor
Transportation; Nautical
a stabilizer deployed in the water for heaving to in heavy weather. It acts as a brake and keeps the hull in line with the wind and perpendicular to waves. Often in the form of a ...
seaboots
Transportation; Nautical
high waterproof boots for use at sea. In leisure sailing, known as sailing wellies.
sea chest
Transportation; Nautical
a watertight box built against the hull of the ship communicating with the sea through a grillage, to which valves and piping are attached to allow water in for ballast, engine ...
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