n
(nautical, slang) The menu in a ship's wardroom.
adv
(nautical) Below the main deck of a ship.
n
(dialectal, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, dated) A canister or dinner pail usually of tin.
n
(military) A deep dugout, often equipped with bunks and other fittings.
n
(logging) A building for housing the operator of the winch that controls a boom which is used to control the flow of logs that float downriver to the sawmill.
n
An apartment in a ship's hold where the bread is kept.
n
(US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
n
(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
n
(mechanical engineering, petrochemistry, maritime) A type of extremely viscous, heavy fuel oil primarily used by large oceangoing ships.
n
(mechanical engineering, petrochemistry, maritime) Synonym of bunker fuel.
n
(nautical) The act of bunkering (loading a vessel with oil or coal)
n
(historical) A man in charge of an industrial coal storage bunker.
n
The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
n
(historical, nautical) A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
n
(nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
n
A kind of dockside gantry crane found at container terminals for loading and unloading intermodal containers from container ships.
n
(construction) A crane operator.
n
Synonym of craneman (“crane operator”)
v
(transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy.
n
A large bag used to transport a petroleum product (especially unprocessed crude oil) by sea.
n
A kitchen built around a long, narrow central passage.
n
(mining, historical) A worker riding upon, and in charge of, a train of underground wagons in a mine.
adj
(military) Of a tank: stopped with its hull protected by ground to the front, so that its occupants or weapons have a line of sight forward.
n
(military) A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.
n
(obsolete) Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.
n
A small house beside a canal or river lock, occupied by the lockkeeper.
n
(nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
n
A large room in a shipbuilding yard where the several parts of a ship's hull are laid off to full size from the construction drawings.
n
(US, military) A fleet of vehicles for use by a military installation; the department that maintains them
n
A worker on an oil rig, responsible for engines and other machinery.
n
(nautical) A ship that transports oil (petroleum)
n
Obsolete form of portass. [(obsolete) A breviary; a prayer book.]
n
Obsolete form of portmanteau. [A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.]
n
A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
n
A room used to store gunpowder, particularly (historical) on a ship equipped with cannon.
n
(colloquial, chiefly US) A refrigerated, insulated trailer, ship or shipping container.
n
(nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
n
Synonym of Scotch marine boiler
v
To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
n
Storage space on a ship.
n
(military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
n
(Britain) A commercial vehicle, fitted with a hydraulic hoist, which delivers skips (for rubble, waste and general rubbish) to customers, and collects them once they have been filled for emptying at a landfill site.
n
(nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
n
(US) A small compartment on a long-distance truck in which the driver can sleep when taking a break.
n
(shipping) A strong, thin pallet-sized sheet of plastic or fiberboard used to transport heavy items.
n
(US) A private cabin in a ship or train.
n
(nautical) A vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship.
n
A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.
n
An area for parking or storage of military tanks.
n
Alternative form of tankodrome [(obsolete, military) A training location for use of tanks; tank park.]
n
(automotive, US) A tank truck.
n
A tanker (vessel for transporting liquid).
n
A container for the transport of liquids, gases and powders as bulk cargo.
n
The quantity that a tender (ship that functions as a mobile base) holds.
n
A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
n
A hitch used to draw a trailer with a car or a traction engine.
n
(shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
n
(US) The trunk of a car; a storage compartment under the hood.
n
(US, Maine, lumber trade) The company store debt of a lumberman.
n
(dated) In a stable or garage, a place in the floor prepared so that carriages or automobiles may be washed there and the water run off.
n
(US, colloquial) A water tank mounted on a trailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.
n
(transport) An unprotected pipe located beneath a cargo tank that is used for loading of liquid products such as petroleum.
n
The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
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