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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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square meal
Transportation; Nautical
a sufficient quantity of food. Meals on board ship were served to the crew on a square wooden plate in harbor or at sea in good weather. Food in the Royal Navy was invariably ...
squared away
Transportation; Nautical
yards held rigidly perpendicular to their masts and parallel to the deck. This was rarely the best trim of the yards for efficiency but made a pretty sight for inspections and in ...
squat effect
Transportation; Nautical
the phenomenon by which a vessel moving quickly through shallow water creates an area of lowered pressure under its keel that reduces the ship's buoyancy, particularly at the bow. ...
stanchion
Transportation; Nautical
vertical post near a deck's edge that supports life-lines. A timber fitted in between the frame heads on a wooden hull or a bracket on a steel vessel, approx one meter high, to ...
stand-on (vessel)
Transportation; Nautical
a vessel directed to keep her course and speed where two vessels are approaching one another so as to involve a risk of collision.
starboard tack
Transportation; Nautical
when sailing with the wind coming from the starboard side of the vessel. Has right of way over boats on port tack.
stay
Transportation; Nautical
rigging running fore (forestay) and aft (backstay) from a mast to the hull.
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