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Advance
verb · 78% connection
A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment before…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Assume
verb · 78% connection
To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Attach
verb · 78% connection
To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Bail
v./t. · 78% connection
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be fait…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Barratry
noun · 78% connection
A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Bottom
noun · 78% connection
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
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: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Cargo
noun · 78% connection
The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Charter
noun · 78% connection
The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Crew
noun · 78% connection
The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Cry
verb · 78% connection
To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Distrain
verb · 78% connection
To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Draught
noun · 78% connection
The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet dra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Entrepot
noun · 78% connection
A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shippi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Entry
noun · 78% connection
The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a sh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Factor
noun · 78% connection
One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
Factory
noun · 78% connection
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: take, ship, vessel, goods.
