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Seamanship Definithons Flashcards

Mesmerize

1
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accommodation ladder

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the portable steps from the gangway down to the waterline

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bight

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formed by bringing the end of a rope around, near, to, or across it’s own part

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bitts

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a pair of vertical wooden or iron heads on board ship, used for securing mooring or towing lines. similar to dock bollards

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bollards

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an upright, wooden or iron post to which hawsers or morning lines may be secured, equivalent of a vessels mooring bitts used onshore

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bullwarks

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barrier of stiffened plating at the outboard edge of the main or upper deck to prevent or inhibit entry of the sea

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capstan

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steel warping drum rotating on a vertical axis for the handling of mooring lines and optionally anchor cable

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chock

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a heavy wooden or metal fitting secured on a dock with jaws used for the lead or the guide lines or cables

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cleat

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a fitting of wood or metal with horns used for securing lines

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coil

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to lay down lines in circular turns

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companionway

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a set of steps leading from a ships deck down to a cabin or lower deck

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embark

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going on board

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fairlead

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a ring mounted on a boat or ship to guide a rope keeping it clear of obstructions and preventing it from being cut or chafed

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fake down

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to fake line back and forth on deck

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fantail

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after deck over counter. the part of a a rounded stern which extends past the rearmost perpendicular

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15
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fiddley

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raised platform above the engine room

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forecastle

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raised and enclosed forward superstructure section of the hull. a compartment where the crew lives

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fore-deck

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foremost section of exposed main deck

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gangway

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opening you walk through to get on the accommodation ladder

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hawser

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a large heavy rope used for towing or mooring

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heaving line

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a small line thrown to an approaching vessel or a dock as a messenger

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21
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kink

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a twist in a rope

22
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ladderway

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vertical passage way the holds a ladder

23
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lazzarette

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a low headroom space below decks used for provisions or spare parts or miscellaneous storage. on smaller vessels may contain the steering gear

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line

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a general term for a light rope

25
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messenger line

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a light line used for hauling over a heavier hawser, rope or cable

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mooring

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securing to a dock or to a buoy, or anchoring with two anchors

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mooring line

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ropes used for securing a vessel to shore bollards

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pad eyes

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a metal eye permantly secured to a deck or bulkhead

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painter

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the contiguous bellowing in and bellowing out nature of the ships hull plating due to variable water pressure distribution caused as a result of waves

30
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part

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to break

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pay out

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to slack out a line made fast on board

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piolts ladder

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ladder used for piolt to get on board with

33
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quarter deck

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full width raised hull section and deck extending from the aft shoulder to the stern. the part of a ships upper deck near the stern traditionally reserved for officers

34
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safe working load

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certified load limit applied to lifting appliances and gear

35
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secure

A

to make fast, safe, the completion of a drill or exercise on board ship

36
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seize

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to bind with small rope

37
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slack

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opposite of taut

38
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slip

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to let go by unshackling as a cable

39
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splice

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the joining of two ends of a rope or ropes by so intertwining the strands as but slightly to increase the diameter of the rope

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standing part

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that part of a line or fall which is secured

41
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stopper

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a short length of rope secured at one end and used in securing or checking a running rope

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superstructure

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general term for sections of a vessel constructed on and above the upper or main decks or a vessel

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surge

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to ease a line to prevent it from parting or pulling meanwhile holding the strain

44
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transom

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the fair surface forming the stern of a vessel

45
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weather deck

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uppermost hull deck exposed to the weather at all times

46
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whipping

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a method of preventing the ends of a line from unlaying or fraying by turns of small stuff, stout twine or seizing wire with the ends tucked

47
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winch

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geared rotary machine used for handling of lines wires etc

48
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windless

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winch designed for the rising and lowering of an anchor

49
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bullrail

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heavy rail on the dock which can have line attached to it

50
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bitter end

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the last part of a rope or last link in an anchor chain

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