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- 03:33, 15 June 2024 Can You Spot The A Trump 2024 Pro (hist) [8,047 bytes] ArnulfoGreer02 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<br> It is, admittedly, a bit early for me to be writing an Apple Vision Pro evaluation: I only acquired it 36 hours ago, and my original plan was to use it for work on an upc...")
- 05:06, 28 May 2024 The Biggest Myth About Bucket Hat Exposed (hist) [4,150 bytes] HildredWillie93 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<br>The Makе America Ԍreat Αgain hat, synonymous ѡith the 2016 election campaign оf former President Donald Trump, һas evolved from mere campaign merchandise іnto a p...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Rules (hist) [878 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> in these Terms and Definitions, Rules means the documents issued by the Society which include: </span><br/> <span class="c7"> (1) Rules f...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 QSCS (hist) [209 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"></span><br/> <span class="c7"></span><br/> <span class="c7"></span><br/> <span class="c7"></span><br/> <span class="c7"></span><br/> <span class="c7"></span><...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Lay-Up / Laid-Up (hist) [1,394 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> A condition in which the unit is taken out of service. One of the key considerations in the early planning of a lay-up is its expected duration as thi...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Yard (hist) [256 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A horizontal spar from which a square sail is suspended. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. The spar on which a lugsail or Gunter sail...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Xebec-frigate (hist) [307 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> A European warship that appeared late in the history of the xebec. It was fully square-rigged but otherwise designed like an ordinary xebec. </s...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Xebec (hist) [713 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Variously spelled zebec, xebeck, xebeque, xebecque, zebeck, zebecque, chebec, or shebeck. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A Mediterrane...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Wharfage (hist) [306 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A collective term for docks, piers, quays, and wharfs. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. A collective term for all wharfs in a given p...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Whaler (hist) [353 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. Also whaling ship. A specialized vessel designed for catching or processing whales. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. A person engaged...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Whaleboat (hist) [708 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A type of open boat that is relatively narrow and pointed at both ends, enabling it to move either forwards or backwards equally well. </span...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Whaleback (hist) [1,292 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A type of cargo steamship of unusual design formerly used on the Great Lakes of North America, notably for carrying grain or ore. The hull continuo...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Warp (hist) [420 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier, especially so as to move a sailing ship through a confined or...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Vang (hist) [603 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A line leading from the gaff to either side of the deck, used to prevent the gaff from sagging. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. One...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Trawler (hist) [462 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. Commercial trawler: a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. A fisherman who u...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Travelers (hist) [583 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. Small fittings that slide on a track, rod, or line. The most common use is for the inboard end of the mainsheet. </span><br/> <span class="c7...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Transom (hist) [508 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A lateral member fastened inside the sternpost, to which the hull and deckplanks are fitted. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. The aft...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Touch and go (hist) [419 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. The bottom of the ship touching the bottom, but not grounding. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. Stopping at a dock or pier for a very...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Tender (hist) [556 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also ship's tender. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A type of naval auxiliary ship designed to provide advanced basing services in unde...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Tack (hist) [411 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A leg of the route of a sailing vessel, particularly in relation to tacking and to starboard tack and port tack. </span><br/> <span class="c7...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Sweep (hist) [580 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A long oar used to row, steer, or maneuver an unpowered lighter or sailing vessel when there is no wind. </span><br/> <span class="c7">...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Submarine (hist) [886 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. Generally, a watercraft capable of independent operations underwater, able to renew its own power and breathing air. A submarine differs from a sub...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Strike (hist) [557 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.). </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. To surrender the vessel to the enemy, from "strike the c...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Storeship (hist) [572 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also store ship or stores ship. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. During the Age of Sail and immediately afterwards, a captured ship used...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Stay (hist) [974 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A strong rope supporting a mast and leading from the head of one mast down to some other mast or other part of the vessel; any rigging running fore...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Station (hist) [720 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. In chiefly 19th- and early 20th-century usage, a naval formation under a commander-in-chief who controls all naval operations, and sometimes all na...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Stack (hist) [184 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also funnel. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. Another name for a funnel. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. Deck cargo....")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Squadron (hist) [1,330 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. In general, any significant group of warships considered too small to be a fleet, but otherwise not strictly defined by size. In some navies, the t...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Spritsail (hist) [304 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A fore-and-aft sail, where the peak is supported by a sprit. It may be free-footed or use a boom. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. A...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Sloop-of-war (hist) [648 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a small sailing warship carried 18 or fewer guns with a single continuous gundeck. </span><br/> <span class="...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Slip (hist) [1,416 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. To let go a rope at a precise moment, such as when releasing the last attachment to a buoy, when getting underway. </span><br/> <span class="...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Shipwreck (hist) [314 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. The remains of a ship that has sunk. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. The remains of a ship that has run aground such that she is no...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Ship graveyard (hist) [452 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also called a ship cemetery. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A location where the hulls of discarded ships are left to decay and disint...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Ship (hist) [1,110 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (n.) Strictly, a sailing vessel of three-masts or more and square-rigged on all masts. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. (n.) More gen...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Sea (hist) [498 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. The ocean. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean and generally forming part of, or connecting w...")
- 22:35, 29 November 2023 Scull (hist) [741 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (v.) In sport or recreational rowing, especially on inland water, to propel a boat by oars, where each of one or several persons uses two oars, one...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Scow (hist) [479 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A method of preparing an anchor for tripping by attaching an anchor cable to the crown and fixing to the ring by a light seizing (also known as bec...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Sail (hist) [965 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A piece of fabric attached to a vessel and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the vessel along. Sails are typically attached to the ves...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Rummage (hist) [595 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also romage. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a vessel. </span><br/> <span class="c7">...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Row (hist) [635 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (in general speech) to propel a boat with oars </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. (more precisely, as used at sea) to propel a boat wit...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Rope yarn (hist) [1,142 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A period, traditionally on Wednesday afternoons, when a tailor boarded a sailing warship while the vessel was in port; the crew was excused from mo...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Reefer ship (hist) [263 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also simply reefer. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. A refrigerated cargo ship used to carry perishable goods that require refrigeration...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Rating (hist) [620 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> Also rate or bluejacket. </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 1. In British usage, a junior enlisted member of a country's navy; i.e., any memb...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Range (hist) [511 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. To lay out a rope or chain on deck in a zig-zag or (for rope) a figure‐eight pattern (as opposed to in a coil) so that it can run freely. The zig...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Ram (hist) [665 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A weapon consisting of an underwater prolongation of the bow of a vessel to form an armored beak, intended to be driven into the hull of an enemy v...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Port (hist) [965 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (facility): A maritime facility on a sea coast, in an estuary, or on a river with loading areas at which a vessel can bring aboard or discharge car...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Pinnace (hist) [455 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. (ship's boat) A small, light boat propelled by oars or a sail, used as a tender to larger vessels during the Age of Sail. </span><br/> <span...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Pendant (hist) [343 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. A length of wire or rope secured at one end to a mast or spar and having a block or other fitting at the lower end. </span><br/> <span class=...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Peak (hist) [356 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; used in many combinations, such as peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. </span><br/> <span cla...")
- 22:34, 29 November 2023 Pay off (hist) [511 bytes] Danburfoot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<span class="c7"> 1. To let a vessel's head fall off from the wind (to leeward). </span><br/> <span class="c7"> 2. During the Age of Sail, the practice of...")