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Alluvium
noun · 78% connection
Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently subm…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Atoll
noun · 78% connection
A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Bar
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Barnacle
noun · 78% connection
Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Berthing
p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection
of Berth
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Boottopping
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a tempo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Brattice
noun · 78% connection
A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Calf
noun · 78% connection
The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Ceiling
p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection
of Ceil
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Cirriped
noun · 78% connection
One of the Cirripedia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Cleading
noun · 78% connection
A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Cylinder
noun · 78% connection
A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Cyma recta
noun · 78% connection
a cyma in which the upper section is concave and the lower section is convex
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Dousing-chock
noun · 78% connection
One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Eelgrass
noun · 78% connection
A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Ellipse
noun · 78% connection
An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
End
noun · 78% connection
The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
Faucet
noun · 78% connection
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desire…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: submerged, section, vessel, planking.
