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Boat
Dealing with relatively small, usually open, waterbound craft.
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Boat; General boating
1. A barrel with a hole in used to hold water that sailors would drink from. By extension (in modern naval usage), a shipboard drinking fountain or water cooler. 2. Slang for ...
brig
Boat; General boating
1. (historically) A vessel with two square-rigged masts. 2. (in the US) An interior area of the ship used to detain prisoners (possibily prisoners-of-war, in war-time) & ...
vang
Boat; General boating
1. A rope leading from gaff to either side of the deck, used to prevent the gaff from sagging. 2. See boom vang.
aid to navigation
Boat; General boating
(ATON) Any device external to a vessel or aircraft specifically intended to assist navigators in determining their position or safe course, or to warn them of dangers or ...
sagging
Boat; General boating
When the trough of a wave is amidships, causing the hull to deflect so the ends of the keel are higher than the middle. The opposite of hogging.
embayed
Boat; General boating
The condition where a sailing vessel (especially one which sails poorly to windward) is confined between two capes or headlands by a wind blowing directly onshore.
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