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Nautical
of or relating to boats, sailing, maritime topics
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relative bearing
Transportation; Nautical
a bearing relative to the direction of the ship: the clockwise angle between the ship's direction and an object. See also absolute bearing and bearing.
righting couple
Transportation; Nautical
the force which tends to restore a ship to equilibrium once a heel has altered the relationship between her centre of buoyancy and her centre of gravity.
roll
Transportation; Nautical
a vessel's motion rotating from side to side, about the fore-aft/longitudinal axis. List (qv) is a lasting tilt in the roll direction.
rolling-tackle
Transportation; Nautical
a number of pulleys, engaged to confine the yard to the weather side of the mast; this tackle is much used in a rough sea.
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