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lacing - A lineline used to attach a sail to a spar. laid up - A boat in a dry dock. land breeze - A wind moving from the land to the water due to temperature changes in the evening.
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lacinga line used to attach a sail to a sparSearch results: Click on the word(s) below to view the definition.
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Lacing - To pass a rope through the eyelets of a sail and round a spar. Laid - The make of a rope, as cable laid, hawser laid, single laid, laid with the sun.
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P lacing the sampling equipment on the same side of the boat as the boat operator ensures that a concentration of weight will be there anytime samples are collected or measurements are made. This is particularly critical on a small boat.
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Rep lacing terephthalic acid ( right) with isophthalic acid (center) creates a kink in the PET chain, interfering with crystallization and lowering the polymer's melting point.
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Rep lacing the traditional boom, curved sprits side by side on either side of a sail and joined together at a point well up the mast and at the sail's clew. They hold the sail out and down. This is the rig used on sailboards. See snotter. woollies ...
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Rep lacing wet clothing with dry clothing, Wrapping the person in blankets, Placing dry coverings over the person, Covering the person's head and neck, Covering the person with an insulating device and vapour barrier; ...
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Lacing - A length of line or thin rope; A line used to attach a sail to a spar. Ladder - Stairway of inclined or vertical steps on board ship. Lading - That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.
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The 523 has clean deck lines and a fast, flat underwater profile, but it is no lightweight, disp lacing nearly 33,000 pounds. This much boat requires an honest rig and the 523 has one with 1,625 square feet of working sail area.
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The foot of the mainsail should next be made fast to the boom in the same manner as the peak, the lacing going round a wire jackstay rove through eyebolts on the top of the boom.
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Administration; and Navy: History.) At the present time, whether at home or abroad, they lie within the province of the controller of the navy (the third lord of the board of admiralty); and the director of dockyards, whose office, rep lacing that of ...
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A set of documents, rep lacing the various (national) forms for customs declaration within European Community, implemented on January 1st, 1988.
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Inert gas system: a system of preventing any explosion in the cargo tanks of a tanker by rep lacing the cargo, as it is pumped out, by an inert gas, often the exhaust of the ship's engine.
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DISPLACEMENT HULL - A type of hull that plows through the water and is not capable of planning speed, disp lacing a weight of water equal to its own weight even when more power is added.
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A type of hull that plows through the water, disp lacing a weight of water equal to its own weight, even when more power is added. DockA protected water area in which vessels are moored. The term is often used to denote a pier or a wharf. Dolphin ...
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Displacement Hull: A hull that plows through the water, with little or no lift qualities disp lacing water equal to its own weight.
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See also: Boat, Light, Hull, Stand, Line
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