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ironclad
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laden
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nacelle
cockscomb
raftload
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caulker
rother nail
reballasting
tow iron
saddletank
unballast
outfitting
block
auncel
bilge
bilge water
weighlock
brightwork
pram
Parliamentary heel
tow
bilgewater
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shipowning
tender
waterlog
seakeeping
brace
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supply ship
hydrofoil
dumb barge
barretter
spur
mudlark
stock tackle
weightedness
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ball load
shears
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overballast
sew
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reweight
rig
displace
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unballast
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waterlog
mudlark
boxhaul
verb
- To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
- To weigh down with a ballast.
- To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
noun
- Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
- Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
- A material, such as aggregate or precast concrete pavers, which employs its mass and the force of gravity to hold single-ply roof membranes in place.
- That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
- device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
- Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
prep_phrase
noun
- A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight.
- A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
- A hard, stone-like deposit.
- A small piece of stone, a pebble.
- A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
- A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
- The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
verb
- To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
- To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- To wall with stones.
- To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
- To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
adv
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
adj
verb
- To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
- 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 outfit a model with controls for animation.
noun
- 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.
- The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- A large truck such as a semi-trailer truck.
- A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
noun
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- A responsibility, onus.
- The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- Theme, core idea.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- A heavy load.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.
- An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
- American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
- A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
- The field on which American football is played.
- An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
- Any object resembling the rack or grate.
verb
noun
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a preliminary sketch of a design or picture
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- any of the various versions in the development of a written work
- a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace
- a dose of liquid medicine
- compulsory military service
- a large and hurried swallow
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
noun
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- a large and hurried swallow
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a dose of liquid medicine
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- To put out of place; to disarrange.
- To repress.
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
- To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
adj
- Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- Sick; unwell.
- Strange, weird, odd.
verb
- To turn.
- To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- To turn by means of a crank.
- To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- To turn a crank.
- To be running at a high level of output or effort.
noun
- Synonym of methamphetamine.
- A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
- The penis.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- a fit of temper or passion.
noun
- A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
- A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
- A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
- An act of ramming.
- A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
- A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
- A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
verb
- To thrust during sexual intercourse.
- To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
- To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
- To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.
- To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.
adj
noun
- The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH hulled boat.
- A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew.
- The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola.
- The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine.
noun
- A serrated cleat once fitted to the yards of a square-rigged ship and used when the sail was being reefed
- A yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor (flowering plant native to Eurasia)
- The fleshy red crest of a rooster
- An annual garden plant (Celosia argentea var. cristata, syn. Celosia cristata), having showy red clusters of flowers
- A red cap once worn by court jesters
noun
- A rod or piece of iron used to ascertain the depth of water in a ship's hold. It is let down in a groove by a pump.
- A probe used in urethral sounding
- A sex toy consisting of a metal or plastic rod, generally with a ball at the end, generally inserted into a man's urethra but may also be made for women
noun
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour.
- A type of dinghy with a flat bow.
- A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position.
- A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter.
noun
- A maintenance manoeuvre for sailing vessels during the Age of Sail — similar to careening — during which weight (such as ballast, guns or crew) is shifted to one side of the vessel to make it heel; thereby providing relatively quick access to the underside of the vessel for cleaning or repair at low expense.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see parliamentary, heel.
noun
- Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
- The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
- The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
- A rope or cable used in towing.
- Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
- A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
- An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
verb
noun
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
verb
- offer or present for acceptance
- propose a payment
- make a tender of; in legal settlements
- make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
adj
adj
noun
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- two items of the same kind
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
verb
noun
noun
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A tern.
- A branch of a vein.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Roots, tree roots.
- A very short branch line of a railway line.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- The short wooden buttress of a post.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
verb
verb
noun
- A soldier of the Royal Engineers.
- Any of various birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud, especially Anthus petrosus and Alauda arvensis.
- The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape.
- A child who plays in the mud; a child that spends most of its time in the streets, a street urchin.
- A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks.
noun
- An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. Also sheers.
- A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for cutting cloth, or for removing the fleece from sheep etc.
- Anything resembling a pair of shears in shape or motion, such as a pair of wings.
- The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured.
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
- A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
- A large structure with a dominating presence.
- An excessively muscled person.
- A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
verb
- To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
- To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
- Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
- To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
- To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
- To move (a large, hulking body).
noun
- The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
- Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
noun
- The weight, or mass of metal, used in weighing, to balance the substance weighed.
- Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.
- That which causes a balance; a counterweight.
- A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.
- Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
- A condition of hovering, or being suspended.
- A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimetre.
verb
noun
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
verb
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To hit or kick off target.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
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