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Boat; General boating
The width of a vessel at the widest point, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length.
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Boat; General boating
The weight of water displaced by the immersed volume of a ship's hull, exactly equivalent to the weight of the whole ship.
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Boat; General boating
The vessel's angle of lean or tilt to one side, in the direction called roll. Typically refers to a lean caused by flooding or improperly loaded or shifted cargo (as opposed to 'heeling', which see).
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