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Boat
Dealing with relatively small, usually open, waterbound craft.
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hammock
Boat; General boating
Canvas sheets, slung from the deckhead in messdecks, in which seamen slept. "Lash up and stow" a piped command to tie up hammocks and stow them (typically) in racks inboard of the ...
kissing the gunner's daughter
Boat; General boating
bend over the barrel of a gun for punitive beating with a cane or cat
admiralty law
Boat; General boating
Body of law that deals with maritime cases. In the UK administered by the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice or supreme court.
jury rig
Boat; General boating
Both the act of rigging a temporary mast and sails and the name of the resulting rig. A jury rig would be built at sea when the original rig was damaged, then it would be used to ...
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