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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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