Lesson 1 terms and definitions - LOL
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Aboard: on a vessel (assisting or in sympathy with)
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Aboveboard: above the deck (out in the open, honest)
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Adrift: not tied or secured (acting or living without purpose)
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Aground: resting on the seafloor on shore (halted by circumstances)
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Anchor: a heavy object that holds a vessel in place (a person or thing that figuratively keeps another person or thing steady)
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Awash: water level with or slightly covering the deck (overwhelmed)
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Bail: to throw out seawater or rainwater that has collected in a vessel (to help, or to abandon)
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Ballast: stabilizing weights placed in the hull of a vessel (something that steadies or weighs down)
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Beachcomber: a sailor without a berth or a shipboard assignment (a person living on or near a beach or the shore or one who searches such areas for salvage, or both)
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Bearing: one’s position (posture or deportment)
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Becalm: to come to a stop because of a lack of wind (to halt progress)
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Berth: a sailor’s assignment, or a sailor’s bunk (a position or placement, in a location or in rankings)
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Bilge: the lowest part of a hull (outdated or useless comments or ideas)
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Capsize: to overturn (to ruin or interfere)
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Chart: a navigational map, or to map a course (a display of graphical information, or to set a course)
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Cockpit: a steering or berthing compartment (the pilot’s compartment in an airplane, or a place for cockfighting or location notorious for violence)
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Course: the direction a ship is sailing (a procedure or a way of acting)
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Current: a movement of water (the prevailing mood or tendency)
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Heading: the direction a ship is sailing (one’s course)
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Headway: progress or rate of progress in sailing (progress in general)
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Helm: steering apparatus, or to operate such equipment (a position of leadership, or to lead)
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Jury rig: to rig makeshift equipment (to make a quick fix using available materials)
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Keel: the backbone of a vessel, running along the center of the hull (balance, as when someone is on an even keel)
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Keelhaul: to drag a sailor underneath the ship along the hull as punishment (to punish severely)
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Leeway: sideways movement of a vessel because of current or wind (flexibility)
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Log: originally, a length of wood attached to a line and tossed overboard to measure speed, then a device with the same function; also, a record of operation (an accounting of any activity or progress)
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Lookout: a sailor standing watch (someone keeping watch, or the position from which the person does so)
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Manhole: an opening in to a compartment (a hole providing access underground or into a structure)
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Mooring: securing with anchors or lines, or a place where mooring occurs (a stabilizing influence)
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Navigation: the operation of a vessel (direction for traveling or movement through a virtual area, as on a website)
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Overhaul: to ready equipment for use (to rebuild or repair)
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Pilot: a steersman, or to steer a vessel (an operator of an aircraft or spacecraft, or to operate such a craft or to direct an operation or procedure, or a business or organization)
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Quarantine: temporary sequestration of a vessel because of the possibility of spreading disease, or the location of the sequestration (enforced isolation, especially because of contagion, or the place of isolation)
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Quarters: assigned living areas or workstations on a vessel, or an assembly of all crew members (lodging)
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Rudder: an immersed blade of wood, metal, or plastic attached to a vessel and turned remotely to change its direction (a guiding force)
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Salvage: to rescue or save a ship and/or its cargo, or the compensation for doing so; also, the property salvaged (saving something from being destroyed or discarded, or what is saved)
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Scuttle: to sink a vessel by cutting a hole in the hull (to ruin something by abandonment or sabotage)
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Scuttlebutt: a cask for holding drinking water and, by extension, the idle talk exchanged while drinking from it (gossip)
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Seaworthy: in condition to be operated (solid or valid)
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Ship: to send cargo or passengers by sea (to transport or distribute)
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Shorthanded: lacking enough crew members (not having enough people to perform a task)
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Sounding: a measurement of the depth of water (seeking an opinion or a statement of intention)
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Stow: to put away and, by extension, to keep one’s opinion to oneself (to arrange, load, or store)
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Swamped: submerged (overwhelmed)
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Tack: to change a vessel’s direction, or the new direction (to shift one’s viewpoint, as in “take a new tack”)
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Tide: the change of surface level of a body of water because of gravitational fluctuations (a fluctuating or rising phenomenon)
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Under way: in motion (in progress)
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Wake: the visible track of a vessel through water (aftermath)
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Waterlogged: filled or soaked with water but afloat (full of or saturated with water)
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Watertight: capable of preventing water from entering (solid, flawless)
