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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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strake

Transportation; Nautical

one of the overlapping boards in a clinker built hull.

studding-sails

Transportation; Nautical

long and narrow sails, used only in fine weather, on the outside of the large square sails.

surge

Transportation; Nautical

a vessel's transient motion in a fore and aft direction.

sway

Transportation; Nautical

a vessel's lateral motion from side to side

swigging

Transportation; Nautical

to take up the last bit of slack on a line such as a halyard, anchor line or dockline by taking a single turn round a cleat and alternately heaving on the rope above and below the ...

swinging the compass

Transportation; Nautical

measuring the accuracy in a ship's magnetic compass so its readings can be adjusted – often by turning the ship and taking bearings on reference points.

swinging the lamp

Transportation; Nautical

telling sea stories. Referring to lamps slung from the deckhead which swing while at sea. Often used to indicate that the story teller is exaggerating.

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