local attraction
compensator
magnetic needle
catenary
dygogram
deviation
magnetic bearing
dip of the needle
pyxis
northness
south pole
binnacle
magnetic dip
set the land
coiling
stay
southness
degaussing
boat hook
south-seeking pole
inclination
rake
dip
magnetic inclination
S-pole
dipping needle
angle of dip
rectifier
MOT
spring
swatchway
compass needle
mariner's compass
sternboard
corrector magnet
pilot
boathook
shank-painter
cable-laid
magnetic dipole
gyrocompass
antialigned
power pole
viol
magnetic north
club haul
hawsehole
magnetic compass
geoeffective
mine dial
degauss
compass error
voice coil
fairlead
yaw
trend
clubhaul
lubber's point
lubber's line
parrel
skitter
apeak
gripe
lubber line
headfast
grapnel
hook
magnetotactic
lubber's mark
balance
pole face
aftermast
sweep net
Halbach array
stabilizer
trammel
lay
maglev
compass deflection
chine
dipolar
countertug
thole
buzzbait
supermagnetic
pushpit
shroud
becue
cargo net
bobstay
rail
jig
sternson
death roll
dockline
transmagnetic
heel
cable-laid
antialigned
geoeffective
magnetotactic
dipolar
supermagnetic
transmagnetic
apeak
local attraction
compensator
magnetic needle
catenary
dygogram
deviation
magnetic bearing
dip of the needle
pyxis
northness
south pole
binnacle
magnetic dip
coiling
stay
southness
degaussing
boat hook
south-seeking pole
inclination
rake
dip
magnetic inclination
S-pole
dipping needle
angle of dip
rectifier
MOT
spring
swatchway
compass needle
mariner's compass
sternboard
corrector magnet
pilot
boathook
shank-painter
magnetic dipole
gyrocompass
power pole
viol
magnetic north
hawsehole
magnetic compass
mine dial
compass error
voice coil
fairlead
yaw
trend
lubber's point
lubber's line
parrel
gripe
lubber line
headfast
grapnel
hook
lubber's mark
pole face
aftermast
sweep net
Halbach array
stabilizer
trammel
lay
maglev
compass deflection
chine
countertug
thole
buzzbait
pushpit
shroud
cargo net
bobstay
jig
sternson
death roll
dockline
heel
set the land
spring
club haul
degauss
clubhaul
skitter
balance
becue
rail
noun
- One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass
- Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance.
- A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
- A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and the temperature of water or air provided to spaces or zones within the building for purposes of heating or cooling.
noun
- The curve of an anchor cable from the seabed to the vessel; it should be horizontal at the anchor so as to bury the flukes.
- The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon by no other forces than a uniform gravitational force due to its own weight and variations involving additional and non-uniform forces.
- A cable, the segments of which between supports take a catenary geometric shape, supporting in turn an overhead conductor that provides trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity, or the combination of the conductor, the cable, and supports.
- Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.
adj
noun
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
adv
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
- (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees
- (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)
- that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
- the act of inclining; bending forward
noun
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A lot, plenty.
- A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- The act of raking.
- In cellular automata: a puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
- A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- Rate of progress; pace, speed.
verb
- Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To search through (thoroughly).
- To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
noun
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a brief immersion
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief swim in water
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
verb
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- dip into a liquid while eating
- go down momentarily
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- take a small amount from
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- lower briefly
- appear to move downward
- slope downwards
- dip into a liquid
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
noun
- A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- An erection of the penis.
- The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- A race, a lineage.
- a period of political liberalization and democratization
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- A youth.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
verb
- To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- To cause to well up or flow out of the ground.
- to descend or originate from.
- To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur.
- To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- To have something crack.
- To grow taller or longer.
- to catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To announce unexpectedly, to reveal.
- To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- To extend, to curve.
- To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up.
- To cause to rise from cover.
- To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up.
- To cause to crack.
- to arise, to come into existence.
- To build, to form the initial curve of.
- To gush, to flow out of the ground.
- To rise from cover.
- To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- To bring forth.
- To sprout, to grow,
- To crack.
- To come upon and flush out
- To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- To come dramatically into view.
- To spend the springtime somewhere
- To gush, to flow suddenly and violently.
- to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc.
- to find or get enough food during springtime.
- To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate.
- To be born, descend, or originate from
- To appear, to dawn.
- To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
adj
noun
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A racing driver.
- A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- One who flies a kite.
- A cowcatcher.
- A person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- A pilot vehicle.
verb
- To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.)
adj
noun
- A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
- The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
- The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
- A single tumor in the disease called yaws.
- The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
verb
- To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
- To swerve off course to port or starboard.
- To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
- To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
noun
- The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
- The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
- A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
- A tendency.
- An inclination in a particular direction.
- A fad or fashion style.
verb
noun
- The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
verb
noun
- A ship's anchor.
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
verb
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
verb
- To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
- To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
- To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
- To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling.
- To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
- To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
- To make (concepts) agree.
- To have matching credits and debits.
- To be in equilibrium.
noun
- A pair of scales.
- The remainder.
- A state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
- A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
- Something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium; counterweight.
- Awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
- A device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
- The result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
- The overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately "weighs" more than others.
- Mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
- Apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
noun
- A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
- Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it.
- A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
- An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
- An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
- For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
noun
- A beam compass.
- A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
- A net for confining a woman's hair.
- A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle.
- A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
verb
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
- Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
- Not trumps.
- Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
verb
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
noun
- Differences, expressed in degrees, between magnetic north directions and the direction a magnetic compass points, owing to local magnetic interferences; magnetic deviation.
- The difference, expressed in degrees, between the direction a magnetic compass needle points and true or astronomical north; magnetic declination.
noun
- A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
verb
noun
- One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
verb
verb
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- complain bitterly
- enclose with rails
- provide with rails
- separate with a railing
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- lay with rails
- spread negative information about
- criticize severely
noun
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
noun
- In a keel boat, the act of broaching to windward, putting the spinnaker pole into the water and causing a crash-gybe of the boom and mainsail, which sweep across the deck and plunge down into the water.
- The behaviour where a crocodile or alligator rolls underwater so as to drown its prey or tear off pieces to eat.
noun
- the lower end of a ship's mast
- the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- the back part of the human foot
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
- (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft
verb
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