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Anchor
noun · 78% connection
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Beakhead
noun · 78% connection
A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Bitts
n. pl. · 78% connection
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Boatswain
noun · 78% connection
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Bottomry
noun · 78% connection
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Camber
noun · 78% connection
An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Cant
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Clamp
noun · 78% connection
A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Controller
noun · 78% connection
An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Cross-spall
noun · 78% connection
One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-paw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Davit
noun · 78% connection
Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, ri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Elevator
noun · 78% connection
A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from differ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Flat
noun · 78% connection
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Frap
verb · 78% connection
To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by dr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Frigate
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Gangway
verb · 78% connection
That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Girt
adjective · 78% connection
Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or ti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
Gunwale
noun · 78% connection
The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lowest, deck, vessel, ship, consisting.
