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Shipbuilding
The design, construction and maintenance of both commercial and military ships and floating vessels in shipyards or other marine facilities.
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serve
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
To wrap any small stuff tightly around a rope which has been previously wormed and parcelled. Very small ropes are not wormed.
abaft
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Toward the stern of a ship; back; behind; back of; further aft than.
lifting
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Transferring marks and measurements from a drawing, model, etc., to a plate or other object, by templates or other means.
hawse pipes
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Tubes leading the anchor chain from the deck on which the windlass is located down and forward through the vessel's bow plating. Also a term used to describe the advancement of a ...
turnbuckles
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Used to pull objects together. A link into whose opposite ends two threaded bars, one left-handed, the other right-handed are inserted.
chains
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Usually refers to heavy chains attached to the anchor. Also applied to the lower parts of standing rigging which are attached to the chain plates.
