Nautical

Nautical

of or relating to boats, sailing, maritime topics

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highfield lever

Transportation; Nautical

a particular type of tensioning lever, usually for running backstays. Their use allows the leeward backstay to be completely slackened so that the boom can be let fully out.

hitch

Transportation; Nautical

a knot used to tie a rope or line to a fixed object. Also see bend.

hogging

Transportation; Nautical

when the peak of a wave is amidships, causing the hull to bend so the ends of the keel are lower than the middle. The opposite of sagging.

in earlier use, below the orlop deck, the lower part of the interior of a ship's hull, especially when considered as storage space, as for cargo. In later merchant vessels it extended up through the ...

holiday

Transportation; Nautical

a gap in the coverage of newly applied paint, slush, tar or other preservative.

holystone

Transportation; Nautical

a chunk of sandstone used to scrub the decks. The name comes from both the kneeling position sailors adopt to scrub the deck (reminiscent of genuflection for prayer), and the stone itself (which ...