shakings
graving
boot-topping
disembark
scraper
bream
bed
bear
shipbuilding
squill-gee
messdeck
holystone
shipbreaking
scupper
futtock shroud
raft port
hull breach
flotsam
greave
ship building
back
jetsam
lucky bag
shell
bowgrace
hulk
arrosion
spring a butt
driftwood
outsweeping
knacker
shipwork
stuff
demast
upmaking
shipfitting
dismastment
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helm port
cofferdam
undock
subdeck
overhead
bootstripe
afore
dogshore
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hog
taffrail
skeet
head chute
cordage
coppered
lock-weir
deck
poop deck
hatch
shell plating
outfitting
sloughage
hardtack
pilot biscuit
pilot bread
sea biscuit
freeboard deck
rig
ship biscuit
erasure
afterbody
boatbuilding
nautiform
plunderage
tying up
water level
fitout
docking
water line
top-hamper
buttock
squeegee
caul
sweepings
afoul
wrecksite
waterline
dockage
bring to
decklike
foul
fouled
moorage
ripping iron
runghead
breakface
slice
shipwrecky
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decklike
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scraper
bed
bear
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squill-gee
messdeck
holystone
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raft port
hull breach
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back
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hulk
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cofferdam
subdeck
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skeet
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cordage
lock-weir
deck
poop deck
hatch
shell plating
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hardtack
pilot biscuit
pilot bread
sea biscuit
freeboard deck
rig
ship biscuit
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afterbody
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waterline
dockage
moorage
ripping iron
runghead
breakface
slice
disembark
bream
greave
spring a butt
demast
undock
bring to
noun
- The process of cleaning the upper part of a ship's underwater hull and daubing it with a protecting layer of antifouling substance.
- Any substance used for boot-topping, especially a mixture of tallow, sulphur or lime and rosin, which was commonly used to paint the bottoms of wooden ships, as a deterrent against weeds and barnacles, and to reduce friction.
- The paint of the part of the hull that is designed to be underwater.
noun
- An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
- A freshwater fish of the carp family, genus Capoeta.
- An instrument drawn by oxen, horses or a tractor, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
- A hoe.
- One who scrapes horns.
- In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
- One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
- A tool used by engravers.
- An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud by drawing them across it.
- A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.
- One who plays a violin incompetently, producing cacophonous sounds.
- A prehistoric unifacial tool thought to have been used for hideworking and woodworking.
verb
noun
- A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
- A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
- A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
- An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
noun
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- Marriage.
- The taut surface of a trampoline.
- Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- Sexual activity.
- A garden plot.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- Time spent in a bed.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- One's place of sleep or rest.
verb
- To settle, as machinery.
- To go to bed.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- To place in a bed.
- To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- To put oneself to sleep.
- To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
noun
- A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
- The meat of this animal.
- A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
- A portable punching machine.
- An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
- Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
- The fifteenth Lenormand card.
- A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
- A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
verb
- To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.
- To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
- To wear.
- To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
- To have or display (a mark or other feature).
- To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
- To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
- To have (a name, title, or designation).
- To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
- To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
- To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).
- To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
- To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
- To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
- To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
- To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
- To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
- To behave or conduct (oneself).
- To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
- To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
- To support or sustain; to hold up.
- To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
- To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
- To carry on, or maintain; to have.
- To push, thrust, press.
- To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
- To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
- To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
- To warrant, justify the need for.
- To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
- Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
- To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
adj
noun
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
postp
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
noun
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
verb
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
noun
- A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Unspecified things or matters.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
verb
- To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- To fill with seasoning.
- To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- To break; to destroy.
- To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- To sate.
- To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
noun
- The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- Wasted money.
- An overhead projector.
- A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- An overhead throw.
- A smash.
adj
adv
noun
- A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop
- A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.
- A quahog (clam)
verb
- To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
noun
- A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
- A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
- The ejaculation of semen.
- A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
- A young working-class person who's occasionally loud, disruptive and poorly educated person.
- news or gossip
verb
noun
- The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- A set of slides for a presentation.
- A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- A pack or set of playing cards.
- A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
- The floor.
- The stage.
verb
noun
- An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A trapdoor.
- An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- The act of hatching.
- A gullet.
- A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
- A bedstead.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
verb
noun
- The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
- Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- A costume or an outfit.
- A ridge.
- A promiscuous woman.
- An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- A large truck such as a semi-trailer truck.
- A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
verb
- To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- To dress or clothe in some costume.
- To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
- To outfit a model with controls for animation.
noun
- a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship
- the level of the surface of a body of water
- underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water
- a water gauge that shows the level by showing the surface of the water in a trough or U-shaped tube
noun
- A long-handled tool used on ships for swabbing the decks and spreading protective coatings.
- A tool used to remove excess moisture from a print.
- A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller made of squeegee blades pulled by a horse.
- A short-handled tool, especially as used on car windshields and home windows.
- Similar long-handled tools used for drying or leveling surfaces such as paths and roadways.
- A tool used to force the ink through the stencil in silk-screen printing.
- A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment.
verb
noun
- A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
- The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
- The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
- An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
- Caul fat.
- A membrane.
- A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
- The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.
adj
- especially of a ship's lines etc
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- offensively malodorous
- violating accepted standards or rules
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- characterized by obscenity
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
verb
- hit a foul ball
- make impure
- become or cause to become obstructed
- commit a foul; break the rules
- spot, stain, or pollute
- make unclean
- become soiled and dirty
adj
noun
noun
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- A contiguous portion of an array.
- A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- That which is thin and broad.
- A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- An amount of anything.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
adj
verb
- To cut into slices.
- To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
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