haul around

en-verb

haul around (third-person singular simple present hauls around, present participle hauling around, simple past and past participle hauled around)

hauls around (present singular third-person)
hauling around (participle present)
hauled around (participle past)
hauled around (past)

(nautical, of the wind) To shift to any point of the compass.


in ordinary

(nautical) Out of commission and laid up; said of a naval vessel.


throw about

throw about (third-person singular simple present throws about, present participle throwing about, simple past threw about, past participle thrown about)

throws about (present singular third-person)
throwing about (participle present)
threw about (past)
thrown about (participle past)

That now vnto despaire I gin to growe,
And meane for better winde about to throwe.

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

when they were got about two miles a-head, they threw about, and stood for us again

1805, The Naval Chronicle: Volume 14, July-December 1805:

(obsolete, nautical) To change direction; to change from one tack to another.


gross register ton

en-noun

gross register ton (plural gross register tons)

(nautical, obsolete) A measure of the total enclosed volume of a ship, equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.


net register ton

net register ton (plural net register tons)

(nautical, obsolete) A measure of the cargo capacity of a ship, equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.


train mile

(rail transport) A unit used in estimating railway running expenses, etc.: the total number of miles run by all the trains of a railroad, or system of railroads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure.


square stern

(nautical) A stern having a transom and joining the counter timbers at an angle, as distinguished from a round stern, which has no transom.


make ship

en-verb

make ship (third-person singular simple present makes ship, present participle making ship, simple past and past participle made ship)

makes ship (present singular third-person)
making ship (participle present)
made ship (participle past)
made ship (past)

(nautical) To embark in a ship or other vessel.


block system

Signalling was by the standard 'block' system of the time, which prevents any two trains being on the same track section at once, but this was operated with boldness, with margins shaved. The Metropolitan would prove to have an excellent safety record nonetheless.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 41:

(rail transport) On railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are run by the guidance of electric signals so that no train enters a section or block before the preceding train has left it.


fashion piece

(nautical) One of the timbers which terminate the transom and define the shape of the stern.


pot metal

en-noun

pot metal (countable and uncountable, plural pot metals)

(especially automotive) Synonym of monkey metal.


shoulder-of-mutton sail

shoulder-of-mutton sail (plural shoulder-of-mutton sails)

(nautical) A triangular sail carried on a boat's mast.


leechline

(nautical) A line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by.


cable buoy

(nautical) An empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.


jack block

(nautical) A block fixed in the topgallant or royal rigging, used for raising and lowering light masts and spars.


sail coat

(nautical) A canvas cover laced over furled sails etc. to keep them dry and clean.


mast coat

(nautical) A piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below.


chain pipe

(nautical) An opening in the deck, lined with iron, through which the cable is passed into the lockers or tiers.


landing stage

Close by, across the Parade, are the Customs Examination Rooms and the floating landing stage.

1950 June, K. Longbottom, “Liverpool Riverside Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:

He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:

(nautical) A floating platform attached at one end to a wharf so as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage.


monkey gaff

(nautical) A light gaff attached to the topmast for the better display of signals at sea.


monkey rail

(nautical) A second and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship.


blue pigeon

"Now I'll learn you something Long Jack can't," shouted Tom Platt, as from a locker by the stern he produced a battered deep-sea lead hollowed at one end, smeared the hollow from a saucer full of mutton tallow, and went forward. "I'll learn you how to fly the Blue Pigeon. Shooo!"
[…] The lead sung a deep droning song as Tom Platt whirled it round and round.

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

(nautical, slang) The lead used for sounding.


compass card

(nautical) The circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs.

לוּחַ הַמַּצְפֵּן

the circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass


bear off

en-verb

bear off (third-person singular simple present bears off, present participle bearing off, simple past bore off, past participle borne off)

bears off (present singular third-person)
bearing off (participle present)
bore off (past)
borne off (participle past)

to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat

(nautical) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.


black frost

en-noun

black frost (countable and uncountable, plural black frosts)

The question was raised because of the trawlers of the lost Hull trawlers Lorella and Roderigo, which, it has been suggested, were not adequately warned of the freak black frost conditions by shore-based radio stations.

1955, World Fishing, IPC Industrial Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:

‘Black Frost is like a dense mist and when it lifts it leaves ice all over the ship the ropes round the masts are sometimes 1½ feet in diameter. When black frost hits a ship men are allowed to drink rum by the bottle to keep themselves warm.’

1962, Jeremy Tunstall, The Fishermen, MacGibbon & Kee, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:

The air temperature is most important and a sudden drop may well indicate imminent icing conditions. This drop is often made obvious by the formation of Arctic frost-smoke fog , or ‘black frost’ as it is known by fishermen. It occurs quite frequently in these waters when a sea-air temperature difference exceeds 10 degC and is regarded by fishermen with some apprehension, but there seems little justification for this unless the portent of icing conditions developing is the reason.

1970, The Marine Observer. Published by the Authority of the Meteorological Committee, Air Ministry, London. The Review of the Marine Division in Cooperation with Voluntary Marine Observers, page 29:

The dreaded black frost, that penetrated into every part of ones body and the ship, that enveloped everything, spread a thick coating of ice on rigging, stays and all it embraced, running up the masts, surmounting the superstructure and even the very clothes we wore.

2009 June 30, Ernest Cleveland, Trawlers and Trawler Folk, Pneuma Springs Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 100:

The ship was iced up worse than Dai had ever known it and a heavy swell was running, so when the black frost began to rise from the water everyone had been too busy to notice it. You can't see black frost, but you can feel it; it is black frost which causes each breath you take to include tiny particles of ice, and ice in the lungs can kill a man.

2011 June 30, Katie Flynn, Liverpool Taffy: Family Saga, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:

(chiefly nautical) A mist of very cold droplets that freeze upon impact and coat objects (such as parts of a ship) with ice, potentially causing a ship to capsize.

huurre

mist of droplets that freeze upon impact and coat something with ice


BLIS

information system
information system#English

(automotive) Initialism of blind spot information system, a warning light on a car dashboard that helps the driver avoid accidents when changing lanes.


LATCH

(automotive) Acronym of lower anchors and tethers for children.


CAFE

(automotive) Acronym of Corporate Average Fuel Economy.


DFI

(automotive) Initialism of direct fuel injection.


DRL

(automotive) Initialism of daytime running lights, headlights that cannot be turned off, intended to make cars more visible during the day


sword mat

So called from a wooden implement used in its manufacture.

(nautical) A mat closely woven of yarns.


monkey block

(nautical) A small single block strapped with a swivel.


ERS

(sports, automotive) Acronym of energy recovery system: an electric generation, storage, and propulsion system used in Formula One, which generates electricity by scavenging excess power and energy, stores energy in batteries, and boosts acceleration with electric motors assisting the gasoline engine.


significant wave height

significant wave height (plural significant wave heights)

(oceanographics, nautical) A standardized measure of trough-to-crest wave height calculated for the needs of seafarers; exact mathematical definition has varied over time and currently it is defined as four times the standard deviation of the surface elevation.


fancy line

(nautical) A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; used to haul it down.


up sticks

en-verb

up sticks (third-person singular simple present ups sticks, present participle upping sticks, simple past and past participle upped sticks)

ups sticks (present singular third-person)
upping sticks (participle present)
upped sticks (participle past)
upped sticks (past)

up + sticks, plural of stick (“a mast or part of a mast of a ship; a yard”).

(UK, Ireland, sailing, slang) To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.


countersea

(nautical) A sea running in an opposite direction from the wind.


GTi

Grand Tourer Injection
w:Grand Tourer Injection

(automotive) Initialism of Grand Tourer Injection.


blue light

en-noun

blue light (countable and uncountable, plural blue lights)

Blue lights, or blue fire, is a preparation in which zinc and sulphur, or sulphur alone, are used. The particular colour is communicated by the zinc and sulphur.

1828, Samuel Frederick Gray, The Operative Chemist, page 499:

The blue-light, which, at its first flashing over the ocean, had made the very stars pale their lustre, and lighted up with ghastly radiance the enormous vault of heaven, was now only a point […].

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 57:

When the 'Canandaigua' got astern, and was lying athwart, of the 'Housatonic,' about four ship lengths off, while I was in the fore rigging, I saw a blue light on the water just ahead of the 'Canandaigua,' and on the starboard quarter of the 'Housatonic.'

2015, Mark K. Ragan, quoting Robert Fleming, Proceedings of a Naval Court of Inquiry into the Sinking of the Housatonic, 1864, quoted in Confederate Saboteurs, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 98:

(historical, chiefly nautical) A mixture of chemicals (including nitre, sulfur and antimony) used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for night-time signaling and general illumination.


smart ticket

[T]he commodore pulled out his purse, saying, “Here, you bitch's baby, here's something better than a smart ticket”; and threw it at his silent deliverer, who received and pocketed his bounty […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(nautical, now historical) A certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money.


quarter block

(nautical) A block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clewlines and sheets are reeved.


false keel

(nautical) The timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the ship's lateral resistance.


false tack

(nautical) A coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.


false rail

(nautical) A thin piece of timber placed on top of the headrail to strengthen it.


club topsail

(nautical) A kind of gaff-topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.


shaft alley

(nautical) A passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and containing the propeller shaft.


hag's tooth

(nautical) An ugly irregularity in the pattern of matting or pointing.


Elliott eye

(nautical) A loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served.


cut a feather

en-verb

cut a feather (third-person singular simple present cuts a feather, present participle cutting a feather, simple past and past participle cut a feather)

cuts a feather (present singular third-person)
cutting a feather (participle present)
cut a feather (participle past)
cut a feather (past)

(nautical) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows.


make sail

make sail (third-person singular simple present makes sail, present participle making sail, simple past and past participle made sail)

makes sail (present singular third-person)
making sail (participle present)
made sail (participle past)
made sail (past)

(nautical) To extend an additional quantity of sail (i.e. to spread a sail or sails).

éadach a dhéanamh

to extend an additional quantity of sail


strike sail

strike sail (third-person singular simple present strikes sail, present participle striking sail, simple past struck sail, past participle struck sail or stricken sail)

strikes sail (present singular third-person)
striking sail (participle present)
struck sail (past)
struck sail (participle past)
stricken sail (participle past)

[…] at the last, famine and other necessities, caused them in the ende to strike sayle and let fall anker.

1568, André Thevet, translated by Thomas Hacket, The New Found World, or Antarctike, London: Thomas Hacket, Chapter, page 62:

1627, John Donne, Sermon 24 in Fifty Sermons, London: M.F. et al., Volume 2, 1649, p. 202,
[…] a ship which hath struck Sail, will yet goe on with the winde it had before, for a while,

It was accounted Treason, if any Ship whatsoëver had not acknowledged the Dominion of the King of England in his own Sea, by striking Sail:

1652, John Selden, Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea, London, Book 2, Chapter 26, p. 402:

So many new unexpected accidents happen every hour, which no wit of man could foresee; that may make it necessary for us many times to depart from our former most advised resolutions: as the Mariner must strike sail again, (perhaps when he hath but newly hoyst it up,) if the winde and weather change.

1656, Robert Sanderson, “Ad Populum”, in Twenty Sermons Formerly Preached, London: Henry Seile, page 408:

[…] O friend, never strike sail to a fear. Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Heroism”, in Essays, Boston: James Munroe, page 215:

(nautical, archaic) To lower the sails (in preparation for dropping anchor, to salute or signal submission, in sudden gusts of wind, etc.).


Spanish windlass

en-noun

Spanish windlass (plural Spanish windlasses)

(nautical) A wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marlinspike is thrust to serve as a lever.


frame table

(automotive) a supporting framework that is true and square, used to square up a vehicular frame, to elevate a vehicle's frame to work on it, or to build a framework that should be square and true.


spring beam

(nautical) A beam that supports the side of a paddle box.


make foul water

en-verb

make foul water (third-person singular simple present makes foul water, present participle making foul water, simple past and past participle made foul water)

makes foul water (present singular third-person)
making foul water (participle present)
made foul water (participle past)
made foul water (past)

(nautical) To sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.


shuttle driver

(transport) A driver for hire who transports passengers from one location to another, usually within a specific area such as a hotel or airport.


weather cloth

(nautical) A long piece of canvas or tarpaulin used to protect the hammocks from weather damage when stowed in the nettings.


spring the luff

spring the luff (third-person singular simple present springs the luff, present participle springing the luff, simple past sprang the luff, past participle sprung the luff)

springs the luff (present singular third-person)
springing the luff (participle present)
sprang the luff (past)
sprung the luff (participle past)

(nautical) To ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; said of a vessel.


spring a butt

spring a butt (third-person singular simple present springs a butt, present participle springing a butt, simple past sprang a butt, past participle sprung a butt)

springs a butt (present singular third-person)
springing a butt (participle present)
sprang a butt (past)
sprung a butt (participle past)

(nautical) To loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom.


traverse board

(nautical) A small board hung near the helmsman, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It was used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole.

לוּחַ נִוּוּט

Navigational instrument for dead reckoning


break sheer

break sheer (third-person singular simple present breaks sheer, present participle breaking sheer, simple past broke sheer, past participle broken sheer)

breaks sheer (present singular third-person)
breaking sheer (participle present)
broke sheer (past)
broken sheer (participle past)

(nautical) To deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.


stream the buoy

stream the buoy (third-person singular simple present streams the buoy, present participle streaming the buoy, simple past and past participle streamed the buoy)

streams the buoy (present singular third-person)
streaming the buoy (participle present)
streamed the buoy (participle past)
streamed the buoy (past)

I was aft attending to the sails and bringing the brig to her berth, Boyd and some others standing by the anchor. On streaming the buoy it of course went adrift, but was not missed till after the anchor was let go. When I went forward to attend to the cable and looked for the buoy I saw it floating away astern, and was told the buoy-rope must have been cut by the rocks.

1892, James Choyce, The Log of a Jack Tar:

(nautical, dated) To drop the anchor buoy overboard, before letting go of the anchor. This is done to avoid the buoy getting obstructed by the anchor chain.


fetch a compass

fetch a compass (third-person singular simple present fetches a compass, present participle fetching a compass, simple past and past participle fetched a compass)

fetches a compass (present singular third-person)
fetching a compass (participle present)
fetched a compass (participle past)
fetched a compass (past)

(nautical, archaic, idiomatic) To make a circuit; to take a circuitous route to a place.


French fake

(nautical) A way of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely.


good leg

In a minute or two the Swash was under what Mrs. Budd might have called her "attacking" canvas, and was close by the wind, looking on a good leg well up the harbour.

(nautical) A course sailed on a tack near to the desired course.


Spanish fox

(nautical) A yarn twisted against its lay.


Spanish burton

(nautical) A purchase composed of two single blocks, or (double Spanish burton) one double and two single blocks.


watch tackle

(nautical) A small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook.


sail fine

sail fine (third-person singular simple present sails fine, present participle sailing fine, simple past and past participle sailed fine)

sails fine (present singular third-person)
sailing fine (participle present)
sailed fine (participle past)
sailed fine (past)

(nautical) To sail as close to the wind as possible.


dead wind

(nautical) A wind directly ahead, or opposed to the ship's course.


between wind and water

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-between wind and water.wav

(nautical) In that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface.


Spanish reef

(nautical) A knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail.


fiddle block

(nautical) A long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block.


traverse table

(nautical, surveying) A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypotenuse, from 1 to 100.


traverse sailing

(nautical) Sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.


in the wind's eye

(nautical) Directly toward the point from which the wind blows.


slip the cable

slip the cable (third-person singular simple present slips the cable, present participle slipping the cable, simple past and past participle slipped the cable)

slips the cable (present singular third-person)
slipping the cable (participle present)
slipped the cable (participle past)
slipped the cable (past)

(nautical, dated) To release the end of the cable on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor.


fire roll

The dark, dingy smoke which now began to pervade the deck, left no doubt in the captain's mind as to the correctness of the seaman's suspicions. […] Staunch directed the drummer to beat the 'Fire-roll.'

1829, Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, page 76:

As soon as he could recall his scattered senses, with his usual presence of mind he desired the "fire-roll" to be beat by the drummer, and sent down to ascertain the extent of the mischief. A strong sulphureous smell pervaded the ship […]

1838, Frederick Marryat, The King's Own, page 377:

[…] beat the fire roll. Then I hurried back to the main deck, without even thinking of making a report to the captain. The fire drill had been practiced every day […]

2000, Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel, Ronald E. Coons, Pascal James Imperato, Over Land and Sea: Memoirs of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857-1909, page 149:

(nautical, historical) A special drumbeat used to summon men to their quarters in case of fire.


quarter badge

(nautical) An ornament on the side of a vessel near the stern.


spring stay

(nautical) A preventer stay, to assist the regular one; a smaller stay placed above the stays as a duplicate if needed.


shot prop

(nautical) A wooden prop covered with tarred hemp, to stop a hole made by the shot of an enemy in a ship's side.


span iron

(nautical) A special kind of harpoon, usually secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat.


span block

(nautical) Any of the blocks at the topmast and topgallant-mast heads, for the studding-sail halyards.


in the eye of the wind

A ship sails in the eye of the wind.

(nautical) In a direction opposed to the wind.


span shackle

(nautical) A large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit.


dead rise

(nautical) The transverse upward curvature of a vessel's floor.


quarter bill

(nautical) A list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each.


dead rising

(nautical) An elliptical line drawn on the sheer plan to determine the sweep of the floorheads throughout the ship's length.


watch gun

(nautical) A gun sometimes fired on shipboard at 8 p.m., when the night watch begins.


watch and watch

(nautical) The regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided.


horse marine

(nautical, slang) An awkward, lubberly person.

Tell it to the horse marines!

(nautical, slang) One of a mythical body of marine cavalry, for whom wild flights of imagination are best reserved.


quarter gunner

(nautical) A petty officer who assists the gunner.


on the quarter

(nautical) In a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter.


bilgeway

(nautical, historical) Either of a pair of rails down which a ship is launched.


feather spray

(nautical) The spray thrown up, like pairs of feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel.


work double tides

work double tides (third-person singular simple present works double tides, present participle working double tides, simple past and past participle worked double tides)

works double tides (present singular third-person)
working double tides (participle present)
worked double tides (participle past)
worked double tides (past)

Alluding to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day.

(nautical) To perform the labour of three days in two.


shoe block

(nautical) A block with two sheaves, one above the other, and at right angles to each other.


winter sun

(UK, Ireland, travel) The off-season holiday market, typically to destinations in North Africa and Southern Europe.


forecourse

(nautical) The lowest foresail on a square-rigged foremast.


torquey

en-adj

torquey (comparative torquier, superlative torquiest)

torquier (comparative)
torquiest (superlative)

(informal, automotive) Producing a large amount of torque.


devil's claw

(nautical) A metal hook for grabbing a ship's anchor chain.


shortline

(rail transport, US) An independent railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance.


kevil

The following new ones will have to be supplied: Two pairs of sheave chocks similar to those now in use on board, and twelve large kevils at least four feet long and of heavy pattern.

1898, Annual Reports of the War Department, U.S. War Department, page 3184

The halliard is belayed on the kevil with figure-of-eight turns (not hitched), and the coil is carried up to the pin-rail, where the 1-inch rope is passed round it, the eye at the end of this rope being finally passed over the pin.

1935, Walter Henry Johnston, Building a Little Ship:

(nautical) A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship.


kellet

(nautical) A weight placed on an anchor to stop it dragging.


SUS

sport utility sedan
sport utility sedan#English

(automotive) Abbreviation of sport utility sedan.: An AWD sedan with increased ground clearance and fatter knobbier tires


carloading

From 1940 to 1946, carloadings of grains ranged from about 28 to 35 percent of total shipments of products of agriculture.

1953, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration, A study of conditions affecting the transportation of grain by railroad:

In 1955, for example, 32 railroads reported 168,150 piggyback carloadings; in 1959 50 roads loaded 415,156 cars; [...]. T.O.F.C. still accounts for little more than 2 per cent of all U.S. carloadings but industry experts expect that percentage to reach between 25 and 50 per cent within the foreseeable future.

1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:

(rail transport) The loading of a freight car.


(telematics, transport) a data exchange standard developed for information exchange between traffic management centres


floating car data

In this chapter, we discuss trajectory data and floating-car data, both providing space-time profiles of vehicles.

2012, Martin Treiber, Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation, page 7:

(transport) A method to determine the traffic speed on a road network by monitoring the geolocations of drivers' mobile phones.


intelligent transportation system

en-noun

intelligent transportation system (plural intelligent transportation systems)

intelligent transportation systems (plural)

December 23, 2021, ETSC, New legislation will boost availability of digital speed limit information
In a proposed legislative update to EU rules on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), the European Commission says EU Member States will have to supply data on speed limits. The data will then be available for use by in-vehicle safety systems such as Intelligent Speed Assistance, helping to ensure more accurate information.

(transport) advanced applications that aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management without embodying intelligence as such.


yankee

(nautical) A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest.


PRNDL

From the letters marked on the gearstick, standing for park, reverse, neutral, drive, low, the gears on a standard automatic transmission.

John A. Kuecken (1980) Handbook of microprocessor applications, page 59: “You could close all the doors, place the PRNDL in Park and start the engine.”

James Schefter (1998) All Corvettes Are Red, →ISBN, page 339: “Dave Hill ordered it redone and new PRNDLs were being readied for the next drive out of Milford.”

Rick Wenman (2003) Fresh Tracks, →ISBN, page 69: “I pull the gearshift into reverse. Always do it by feel. The PRNDL on top of the steering column quit working as soon as the warranty was up.”

Noel B Searle (2011) The Visibly Invisible Man and Other Short Stories, →ISBN, page 9: “Jones settled behind the steering wheel, dutifully securing his seat belt, slipped the PRNDL into Drive and eased out of the driveway.”

(US, acronym, automotive, informal or humorous) The gearstick in a car with automatic transmission.


married sector

(travel, aviation, fare construction) Any of two or more flight sectors in an itinerary that can not be rebooked or changed separately from the other sectors, due to fare rules or market restrictions.


DITA

(automotive) Initialism of direct injected turbocharged aftercooled.


plushers

(historical, nautical) Left-over residue in a cask of rum.


forehander

Then he heard the wailing cry of the forehander as the crowd manned the braces.

1940, Roland Barker, Jonah's Ark, page 59:

I had not been below ten minutes when I heard Mr. Hughes shouting orders; then there came the cries of the forehander, and the creaking of brace blocks, as the yards were trimmed once more.

(sailing) The crew member in charge of managing the foresail.


fiddley

(nautical) The iron framework round the deck opening that leads to the stokehole of a steamer, usually covered by a grating of iron bars.

(nautical) The space below this framework.


car body

This was announced in October when details of a £4 million order for car bodies and bogies to complete the Central and Piccadilly Line's rolling stock renewal programmes with 619 more "1959 Stock" cars were made known.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Tube trains from Derby”, in Trains Illustrated, page 706:

(rail transport) The body of a rail vehicle called a car.


ruling gradient

ruling gradient (plural ruling gradients)

For the next mile, the line falls, and then rises again, at a gradient of 1 in 50, the ruling gradient of the line.

1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 839:

In the next 65 miles the train climbs 2,470ft to the Arizona Divide on a ruling gradient of 1 in 70 and in steam days a fleet of helper engines was kept busy assisting the heavy trains over this section.

1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 425:

Minor changes to control gear include the provision of automatic wheelslip protection, since these units will be operated on lines with ruling gradients of 1 in 60 or 1 in 80.

1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 385:

(rail transport) The steepest uphill gradient in one direction on a section of railway line, which determines the load that can be pulled by one locomotive over that section, according to the power rating of the locomotive. A typical ruling gradient could be 1:50 (2%). The ruling gradient can differ in the other direction on the same section.


seatmile

(transport) Alternative form of seat-mile


seat-mile

(transport) A unit of measure of passenger carrying capacity, equal to the number of seats available multiplied by the number of miles flown.


PIR

property irregularity report
property irregularity report#English

(countable, aviation, travel) Initialism of property irregularity report: a form to be filled in when baggage is lost by an airline.


Deltic

Named for the deltic (“Δ-shaped”) arrangement of cylinders in its engines.

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 55 locomotive.


flight status

(aviation, travel) An updated notice of a flight's departure and arrival times compared to its scheduled times.


How much rail horsepower does a 125 have? Well I don't have the actual TE curve on me here (it's at home) but I can approximate.

1999 June 16, Hoppy, “Re: HST from Paddington”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

Most of the cheap tickets are valid on both 125s and Turbos - indeed some are ONLY available on 125s (eg First Plus London Day Out).

2003 December 1, Sean Marshall, “Re: Voyager/Meridian differences”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

When I was an apprentice many years ago, the 125 used to come through Markinch station in Fife at 1.27pm every weekday.

2010 January 6, McKevvy, “Re: Could you safely lie between the rails of an HSL?”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

(UK, rail transport) A high-speed train (HST) powered by two British Rail Class 43s, one at each end.


autotrain

(rail transport) A type of push-pull train incorporating a tank engine and passenger coaches fitted with a driver's cab.


railmotor

(UK, Australia, rail transport) A lightweight railcar.


(automotive) an eight-wheeled vehicle with eight-wheel drive and eight-wheeled steering, each wheel has powered drive, and each axle is steerable. (Abbreviation of 8 wheel steering with 8 drive wheels on 8 wheels.)


BAP

(nautical, military, initialism) The ship prefix for a ship from the navy of Peru


electric multiple unit

electric multiple unit (plural electric multiple units)

(rail transport) A multiple unit train powered by electricity, abbreviated EMU.


marine aerodrome

marine aerodrome (plural marine aerodromes)

(nautical, maritime) a type of airport or airfield where the landing and take-off area is a body of water, such as a lake, river, or the sea.


resignalling

All layout remodelling and resignalling at Stafford has already been finished; the colour-light signals, with their route-indicators, and the power-operated points are operated from the lever frames of existing signalboxes.

1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The L.M.R. electrification”, in Modern Railways, page 220:

"The cost of resignalling is astronomical, and you'd be talking about hundreds of millions of pounds and a pretty lengthy blockade to rip all this stuff up and remodel the tracks."

2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury

It is hoped that this will be increased to 18tph [trains per hour], but this is dependent on resignalling.

2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 72:

(British spelling, rail transport) The act of renewing signalling equipment.


signal aspect

(rail transport) The visual appearance of a railway signal


on the floor

I got a '69 Chevy with a 396/Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor.

(US, automotive) Mounted on the floor of an automobile


BTT

en-proper noun

BTT (countable and uncountable, plural BTTs)

Take note that passing requires you to score a minimum of 45/50. I failed many of my e-trial tests, but passed BTT in the end!

2013 October 8, Joey Ong, iisjong: Getting a Driving License – Part 2:

[Y]ou realized that you need to take a Basic Theory Test (‘’’BTT’’’) in order to get hat Provisional Driving License (PDL) for you to actually drive the vehicle with a qualified driving instructor sitting beside you.

2014, Putera, How to Pass BTT, FTT and TP Test Like A Boss: Singapore Edition, page 3:

[Y]ou do not need to retake the BTT once you have passed it[.]

(Singapore English, transport, countable) Initialism of Basic Theory Test. A computerised knowledge test on the Singapore road rules held at a driving center.


fall aboard of

en-verb

fall aboard of (third-person singular simple present falls aboard of, present participle falling aboard of, simple past fell aboard of, past participle fallen aboard of)

falls aboard of (present singular third-person)
falling aboard of (participle present)
fell aboard of (past)
fallen aboard of (participle past)

(nautical) To strike (the side of another ship).


dark territory

en-noun

dark territory (countable and uncountable, plural dark territories)

(US, rail transport) A section of railroad track not controlled by signals.


frunk

The Model S, showing off both its traditional trunk and its surprising "frunk."

2013 (summer), Standard, issue 17, page 50

I pop the trunk of the Porsche and find ...the engine. […] I walk around the front of the car, pop the other trunk—the frunk?—and discover a tire iron nestled next to the spare.

2014 March 11, T. T. Monday, The Setup Man: A Novel, Doubleday, →ISBN:

[…] a rear cargo area that's more like that of a hatchback than the trunk of a sedan, and a "frunk" where the engine isn't. It's also theoretically safer than a dinosaur-burner, at least in a frontal collision, because the frunk provides a long crumple zone in the front […]

2014 August/September, Charged: Electric Vehicles Magazine, issue 15, page 65

(automotive) A trunk (boot, storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear of a car.


belandre

Borrowed from French belandre, from Dutch bijlander (whence also English bilander), equivalent to by- + lander.

(nautical) A small flat-bottomed craft, used principally on the rivers, canals, and roadsteads of France.


NAC

(rail transport) The station code of Nam Cheong in Hong Kong.


foretackle

(nautical) The tackle that attaches or hooks on to the pendant (on a masthead or foremast) for the purposes of hoisting, tautening, or securing a stay.


observation car

observation car (plural observation cars)

(rail transport) A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route, sometimes with glass sides or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.


raceabout

(nautical) A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.


jury mast

[P]erhaps the Jury Masts may just serve to carry me into Harbour, (as they have done,) and then the ship is to sink:—very likely, for such events happen perpetually.

1787 October 11, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:

(nautical) A temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away or broken.


corridor train

(rail transport) A train whose coaches are connected so as to form a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.


detector bar

(railways) A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train, laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until the entire train has passed the switch.


car mile

(railways) A mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.


telemotor

(nautical) A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.


anchor light

(nautical) The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor.


safety chain

(railways) A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body during a slue.


loofward

en-adv

loofward (comparative more loofward, superlative most loofward)

more loofward (comparative)
most loofward (superlative)

From loof + -ward. Compare Dutch loefwaarts (“loofward”).


close-winded

en-adj

close-winded (comparative more close-winded, superlative most close-winded)

more close-winded (comparative)
most close-winded (superlative)


granger railroad

en-noun

granger railroad (plural granger railroads)

For many granger railroads there was but one choice among the many wheel arrangements available for modern steam power. ….. So in steam what else but the 4-8-4?

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 40:

(rail transport) Synonym of granger road


granger road

The largest single class of 4-8-4's - Rock Island's 65 5000's - was ordered by a granger road as early as 1929.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co, page 40:

(US, rail transport, historical) A railroad used mainly for transporting the produce of farmers or grangers.


torpedo catcher

torpedo catcher (plural torpedo catchers)

(military, nautical) A small, fast gunboat for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.


dugout canoe

(nautical) A canoe made by digging out the centre of a tree trunk.


dipsey

a dipsey line

"Soundin' is a trick, though," said Dan, "when your dipsey lead's all the eye you're like to hev for a week. What d'you make it, Dad?"

1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

(nautical, slang, attributive) Deep sea.


block signal

(railways) One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system, often coupled with a switch so that opening or closing the switch also operates the signal.


tracklayer

(railways) A workman whose work involves putting the track in place.


tracklaying

Bottom ballasting paved the way for the start of tracklaying in March and this £250,000 contract was scheduled for completion in 48 weeks.

1961 July, K. D. Peel, “Carlisle-Border Freight Centre: 2.- The new automated yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 400:

(rail transport) The work that involves putting the track in place.


pony truck

A bogie has been provided at the front end of the engines in place of the original pony truck; it is identical with that fitted to the class "B1" 4-6-0 locomotives.

1944 September and October, “New Pacific Locomotives for the L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 286:

The outermost non-driven axle forms a pony truck within the bogie frame, with its bearings in a cannon box.

1959 June, “The first "Peak" class 2,300 h.p. diesel-electric locomotive for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 296:

(rail transport) Synonym of Bissell truck


cautionary block

cautionary block (plural cautionary blocks)

(railways) A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, with certain restrictions.


clew line

(sailing) Alternative spelling of clewline


running rigging

running rigging (countable and uncountable, plural running riggings)

(nautical) The ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.


standing rigging

standing rigging (plural standing riggings)

(nautical) The shrouds and stays of a sailboat.


turn signal

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-turn signal.wav

(chiefly US, automotive) Each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which is used to indicate the vehicle is moving left or right.


narrow-gauge

On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.

1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:

(rail transport) Relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge.

вузкакале́йны

(rail transport) relating to narrow gauge or having a narrow gauge


doublehand

en-verb

doublehand (third-person singular simple present doublehands, present participle doublehanding, simple past and past participle doublehanded)

doublehands (present singular third-person)
doublehanding (participle present)
doublehanded (participle past)
doublehanded (past)

Whether you're sailing with a full crew complement or doublehanding with your spouse,...

2014, Ralph Naranjo, The Art of Seamanship, →ISBN, page 67:


doublehanded

This section uses a survey of thirteen couples to look at typical shorthanded solutions to watchkeeping and then discusses some standard watch schedules for doublehanded crews.

2006, Beth Leonard, The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising, →ISBN:

(sailing) Requiring or using a crew consisting of two people.


RBD

reservation booking designator
reservation booking designator#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of reservation booking designator.


traffic mile

(railways) Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period.


commerce destroyer

en-noun

commerce destroyer (plural commerce destroyers)

(military, nautical, dated) A fast, unarmoured, lightly armed naval vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy.


lighthanded

en-adj

lighthanded (comparative more lighthanded, superlative most lighthanded)

more lighthanded (comparative)
most lighthanded (superlative)

Being so lighthanded the vessel could not be properly managed and could carry but little sail, consequently her progress was but slow.

1887, The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-day Saints, Volume 8, page 168:

“We will hold on to the last, while he must begin to take in soon, or the squall will come upon him too fast for a light-handed vessel.”

1836, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water Witch:

(nautical or military) Not having a full complement of workers.


ITB

Coordinate term: ATB

(nautical) Abbreviation of integrated tug and barge.

Coordinate term: TB

(automotive) Abbreviation of individual throttle body: an engine configuration with an intake valve per cylinder.


knotter

1905, Hansard, “Navy Estimates,” 13 March, 1905,
His hon. and gallant friend raised the question as to the two classes of destroyers, one for ocean work and the other for work in narrow waters. It was not true to say that the new twenty-five-and-a-half “knotters” had proved inferior to the old thirty “knotters.” In anything like dirty weather the twenty-five-and-a-half “knotters” had shown their superiority. As he had stated to the Committee, they had failed to produce a better design which would combine greater speed with greater stability at a limited cost.

Their engines being “simple,” they consumed a perfectly ruinous amount of coal, sixty-four tons for the round trip; considerably more than the coal consumption of the present twenty-four knotters.

1920, Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, chapter 3, in The Days Before Yesterday, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 62:

(nautical, in compounds) A vessel capable of reaching a specified speed in knots.

“See how the canvass unfurls itself like great white wings, and spreads its volumes upon the air. The wind is a strong eight-knotter, and will give her a firm headway for Tom’s purpose.”

1847, Joseph Holt Ingraham, The Surf Skiff; or, The Heroine of Kennebec, New York: R. M. De Witt, published 1867, page 55:

(nautical, in compounds) A wind blowing at a specified velocity in knots.


sun visor

(automotive) A flap attached to the interior of an automobile by a hinge just above the windscreen/windshield, used to shade the eyes of occupants from the glare of sunlight.


headrail

(nautical) A railing, on a sailing ship, behind the figurehead.

Initially, our man was the favourite, the boat's crew cheering him on as usual: 'Now my boy! Knock out his head rails' . . .

2011, Frederick Chamier, Life of a Sailor, page 148:

(nautical, slang, obsolete, in the plural) A person's tooth.


roader

(nautical) A vessel sheltering in a roadstead


motorail

(rail transport) A train allowing passengers to take their automobile along with them on their journey.


throwline

(nautical) A line that may be thrown to assist a person at peril in the water.


Hikari

(rail transport) A type of Japanese high-speed passenger train; bullet train.


guard's van

(UK, Ireland, rail transport, historical) The last carriage on a passenger train; it was occupied by the guard, had storage space for parcels, bicycles etc, and sometimes had an emergency brake.


bug shoe

(nautical) A length of ironbark or other hardened material on the skeg of a ship that protects from shipworm damage.


supertrawler

The proposition that foreigners may be depriving British workers of their cod is politically potent. […] This argument, of course, denies the long British history of overfishing and the fact that the dread Spanish supertrawlers, which are now so universally denounced, wre a British invention.

(nautical) A very large, industrialised trawler


TBI

(automotive) Initialism of throttle body injection. (fuel injection)


togethering

(travel) The practice of arranging joint travel or vacations, as a group.


wringbolt

(nautical, historical) A bolt with a ring or eye, used by shipwrights to temporarily bend and secure the planks against the timbers until they are fixed in place.


drop anchor

en-verb

drop anchor (third-person singular simple present drops anchor, present participle dropping anchor, simple past and past participle dropped anchor)

drops anchor (present singular third-person)
dropping anchor (participle present)
dropped anchor (participle past)
dropped anchor (past)

(nautical) To release the anchor of a ship or boat, allowing it to fall to the bed of a body of water and thereby securing the vessel in place.


salvagee

The salvagee or sub-division system is intended to remove this objection. The gradual and progressive re-action, which forms a distinctive character of this system, generates the strongest adhesion of the twists, or component parts of the rope, . (which at the same time are in spiral directions) nearly parallel; and of consequence, with a power but fractionally inferior to a combination of yarns parallel to each other.

1800, The Commercial Agricultural and Manufacturer's Magazine:

Take a piece of good rope, splice a thimble in one end, and fit the other like a salvagee.

1834, Charles Martelli -, The naval officer's guide for preparing ships for sea, page 81:

My mind misgives me, sir, that we Were wrong about that salvagee— I should restore it.

1872, William Schwenck Gilbert, More "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense, page 193:

She had then only to be steered very close to the buoy, when the salvagee was laid hold of with a boat-hook, and the bite of the hawser thrown over the cross-head. But the salvagee, by this method, was always left at the buoy, and was, of course, more liable to chafe and wear than a hawser passed through the ring, which could be wattled with canvas, and shifted at pleasure.

2011, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers, →ISBN, page 119:

(nautical) A free rope on a sailing ship (one that does not have a single dedicated purpose).


lee-ho

(nautical) Used by the helm to announce that the vessel is tacking.


anchor ball

(nautical) A sphere, usually black, that is either attached to the vessel or to the anchor buoy, used as a signal to state the vessel is anchored


Oppy

I suggest you go somewhere else and use your talents where they will be admired, like maybe North Korea, and leave those poor children in their Oppies to have fun.


MIL

malfunction indicator lamp
w:malfunction indicator lamp

(automotive) Initialism of malfunction indicator lamp.


chart table

(nautical) A table, below deck, on which charts are placed to navigate.


tidal diamond

(nautical, navigation) A diamond-shaped symbol on a chart, indicating the direction and speed of tidal streams


tidal stream

(nautical) The flow of the water caused by rising and falling tide


furling drum

(nautical) A drum out of which a sail is furled


drying height

(nautical) On a chart, the vertical distance of the seabed exposed by the tide at the lowest astronomical tide.


lateral mark

(nautical) A buoy or other navigational mark denoting the port or starboard edge of a channel


cardinal mark

(nautical) A sea mark (a buoy or other floating or fixed structure) used in pilotage to indicate the position of a hazard and the direction of safe water.


spinnaker pole

(nautical) A spar used to support the spinnaker.


Targa top

Named after the Porsche 911 Targa, a car model of the 1960s.

(automotive) A semiconvertible car body style with a removable roof section and a full-width roll bar behind the seats.


BEVx

battery electric vehicle with extender#English

battery electric vehicle
battery electric vehicle#English

plug-in hybrid electric vehicle
plug-in hybrid electric vehicle#English

(automotive) Initialism of battery electric vehicle with extender. (a battery electric vehicle with a range extender, a type of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle)


PCG

Philippine Coast Guard
w:Philippine Coast Guard

(Philippines, law enforcement, nautical) Initialism of Philippine Coast Guard.


fare ladder

(aviation, travel, dated) a breakdown of destinations, airfare, taxes, and surcharges, shown on a paper ticket in a vertical multi-column format.


SOG

en-noun

SOG (countable and uncountable, plural SOGs)

Coordinate term: COG

(nautical) Initialism of speed over ground.


clinkerwise

planks laid clinkerwise

(nautical) In the clinker or lapstrake fashion.


blastpipe

From blast (“forcible stream of gas, etc., from an orifice; exhaust steam from an engine”) + pipe.

compound

[W]ith this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.

1944 November–December, “Modified G.W.R. ‘Hall’ Class Locomotives”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 350:

By this time the "King" had been fitted with four-row superheater, double blastpipe and chimney, and all the later modifications effected by Swindon in these engines, to which they responded so well with the poorer quality of fuel of their last years.

1963 September, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 186:

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering, rail transport) A pipe forming part of the exhaust system of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders up into the smokebox beneath the chimney in order to increase the draught through the firebox; this speeds up the release of smoke through the chimney.


ashpan

They have been fitted with a complete rocking grate and a hopper ashpan so that the ashes can be released without the necessity for a man to go underneath the engine.

1944 September and October, “New Pacific Locomotives for the L.N.E.R.”, in -Railway Magazine, page 286:

A new ashpan has been fitted, however, with four bottom doors for self-emptying, and a rocking grate with twelve rocking sections.

1960 March, “Testing a rebuilt "Merchant Navy" Pacific of the S.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 167:

During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.

1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:

(rail transport) A large pan below the grate and firebox of a steam locomotive.


yardsnap

(nautical) A strap equipped with snaps at the outer end of a yard for securing signal halyards.


Mountain

Western Pacific wisely devoted its design energies to the articulateds which produced most of its gross, left the 4-6-0's that came with the road plus a few secondhand Florida East Coast Mountains for its sparse passenger service.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 106:

(rail transport) a steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.


brake van

The provision of sanding-gear on brake vans operating over such lines should be compulsory (this old Highland brake was not so fitted); [...].

1940 November, “Notes and News: A Highland Collision”, in Railway Magazine, page 612:

(British, rail transport, dated) A railway vehicle used to brake a (goods) train, usually placed at the end of the train. These were essential before continuous train braking became universal.


cruising chute

(nautical) A type of spinnaker designed for cruising


goose-wing

en-verb

goose-wing (third-person singular simple present goose-wings, present participle goose-winging, simple past and past participle goose-winged)

goose-wings (present singular third-person)
goose-winging (participle present)
goose-winged (participle past)
goose-winged (past)

(nautical) To sail with the sails in a goose wing position


private car

In the days before televised press conferences, or debates between Presidential contenders, the railroads carried the politicians to the people. Here, President Truman addresses a crowd from the verandah of his private car, at Sacramento during the 1952 campaign.

1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 11, photo caption:

(rail transport, US) A railroad passenger car that is either privately owned or used privately, or both.


hot shot

After being struck by three hot shot from the coastal fort, the attacking ship of the line burned uncontrollably until the flames reached her powder magazine and she blew up.

(historical, military, nautical) Round shot that has been heated to a glow before firing in order to set wooden enemy ships afire.


on the wind

(nautical) As close as possible to the direction that the wind is blowing.


bawley

It is ten o'clock in the day; the bawleys have returned from the fishing grounds, and scores of them have anchored in the Ray—a deep stretch of water lying between the spit of sand that extends from the end of Canvey Island close up to Southend Pier, and the mud-flats of Leigh.

1891, G. A. Henty, chapter 1, in A Chapter of Adventures:

What a sight it must have been a century ago when Harwich Quay was lined with bawleys—east coast sailing craft designed for catching shrimps and whitebait.

2010 June 5, Brian Jackman, “Walton Backwaters: Going with the flow in Essex”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-09-20:

(nautical) A small fishing boat, equipped with sails, used mainly in the estuary of the Thames, England.


heave to

heave to (third-person singular simple present heaves to, present participle heaving to, simple past heaved to or hove to, past participle heaved to or hove to or hoven to)

heaves to (present singular third-person)
heaving to (participle present)
heaved to (past)
hove to (past)
heaved to (participle past)
hove to (participle past)
hoven to (participle past)

(intransitive, nautical, sailing) To cause (one's vessel) to become dead in the water by pointing the bows directly towards the wind.

(intransitive, nautical, of a ship or other naval vessel) To come to a halt.


blirty

en-adj

blirty (comparative blirtier or more blirty, superlative blirtiest or most blirty)

blirtier (comparative)
more blirty (comparative)
blirtiest (superlative)
most blirty (superlative)

a blirty day

(nautical, chiefly Scotland) Characterised by blirts or gusts of wind and rain.


upmaking

en-noun

upmaking (usually uncountable, plural upmakings)

(nautical, historical) Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.


short tag

en-verb

short tag (third-person singular simple present short tags, present participle short tagging, simple past and past participle short tagged)

short tags (present singular third-person)
short tagging (participle present)
short tagged (participle past)
short tagged (past)

(travel, aviation) to check a bag through to an intermediate point on an itinerary rather than the destination.


no no

(nautical) Response to ahoy if no officer is in the boat.


tiddly suit

Probably connected to tidy. Granville (1950) claims that it is "from tidy, influenced by titivate", while Jolly (2018) states that it "appears merely to be a whimsical corruption of tidily".

(nautical) A sailor's best uniform, often tailored and not strictly to regulation.


crossing loop

Some 60 miles of single line (with long and short crossing loops at suitable intervals) will be continuously track-circuited and colour light-signalled under the control of one signalbox at Llandrindod Wells, enabling 18 existing signalboxes to be closed.

1960 April, “Talking of Trains: C.T.C. for Central Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 194:

(rail transport) synonym of passing loop


double track

Between them, and fitted with the necessary turntables, capstans, and other appliances for transferring the small four-wheel carriages and vans from one track to another, were 14 tracks which converged outside the station into double-track through the Maiden Lane Tunnel, 528 yd. in length.

1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 650:

(rail transport) A section of railway line or tramline consisting of two parallel tracks, one being used in one direction and the other in the opposite direction.


passing loop

From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.

1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:

In the east of Yorkshire, Mr. A. M. Ross reports the belief of local railwaymen that the N.E.R. plans to single the York-Beverley line, leaving an adequate provision of passing loops, and to operate it by C.T.C. from York; [...].

1959 June, “Talking of Trains: North Eastern report”, in Trains Illustrated, page 293:

Provision of a passing loop at Brading [Isle of Wight] at a cost of £1 million will allow a half-hourly service to replace the current unbalanced 20/40-minute interval service.

2019 October, “Vivarail EMUs for Island Line”, in Modern Railways, page 13:

(rail transport) On a single-track railway or tramway, an extra track provided at a certain place to allow two trains travelling in opposite directions to pass each other. It can also allow a faster train to overtake a slower one.

раз’езд

place where two trains can pass each other


excursion fare

Bands of Musicians conveyed in ordinary advertised Excursion Trains are charged the full excursion fare, but when accompanying Guaranteed Excursions, or travelling in Excursion Trains to Brass Band Contests, they are conveyed at half the Excursion Fare.

1869 January, Regulations of the Railway Clearing House, James Truscott & Son (London), p. 109 (Google preview)

As of Jan. 1, Pan American will offer lower round‐trip economy excursion fares in some instances.

1964 December 27, “The Field of Travel”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-10-20:

The excursion fare of £64 return, for trips of up to six nights, includes a berth in an "economy" cabin.

2014 February 5, Simon Calder, “of the Week: A Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-10-20:

(travel) A fare for travel by land, air, or water which is less expensive than the regular fare, and which usually depends on special conditions, such as round-trip travel, payment in advance, or restrictions in duration of stay.


railbound

(rail transport) confined to running on rails.


able whackets

Possibly from able, as in able seaman, and whack.

The chief amusement or game in use in the midshipmen's berth, was ‘able whackets’, a pastime in which cards, blasphemy, and hard knocks were agreeably mingled.

1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time, section IV:

Instead of the usual sailors' games of cards and ablewhackets, there was the clicking of dice, with games of parcheesi unfolding on chequerboards of rope […].

2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 15:

(nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games.


kickdown

kickdown linkage

automatic transmission
automatic transmission

(automotive, often attributive) In a vehicle with automatic transmission, a downshift triggered by pressing down the throttle pedal.


death roll

(nautical) In a keel boat, the act of broaching to windward, putting the spinnaker pole into the water and causing a crash-gybe of the boom and mainsail, which sweep across the deck and plunge down into the water.


Pretendolino

But let's not forget that loco-hauled trains are regularly operated by Arriva in Wales, First Great Western and Northern Rail (Workington to Maryport) and even Tim's beloved Virgin Trains has the Pretendolino set that runs regularly on the WCML, and the Pendolino drag to/from Holyhead.

2010 January 25, Bruce, “Re: EMT Frustration”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

Tonight the Pretendolino is due to work it's regular route, but I saw it working the Birmingham loop of the WCML yesterday, usually when this happens the EUS-PRE service is booked with a 390 or 221, does anybody know which unit is working it tonight?

2010 July 30, Tom, “Pretendolino Workings 30/07/10”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

It is seen here satback at Preston, awaiting departure while working the 5Z41 Kilmarnock–Wembley InterCity depot, dragging the Virgin 'Pretendolino' stock which has been contracted to be moved back south by DRS after maintenance at Hunslet-Barclay.

2015, Ross Taylor, Lancashire Traction, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

(rail transport, UK) A British Rail Class 90 train with Mark 3 coaching stock formerly used on services normally operated by Pendolinos.


boardsman

Earley in the morning there was an altercation between some of the Boardsmen and one of the Ships Corperals.

1865 February 20, William Benjamin Gould, Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor, page 223:

Why, blast, I mind when I wor boardsman o' the Rose of Sharon. The mate, I f 'rget his name, went hoom unexpected-like one night and found a man in bed 'long o' his old woman.

1948, George Goldsmith Carter, The smacksmen: a story of the fishermen of the Borough:

The crews of the later ketches numbered nine; a master (who was often also owner), mate, boardsman, and under-boardsman, whose duties were to bait and shoot the lines, the haulers and backer-in, who coiled down and removed the stale bait, and the boy, who was also cook.

(nautical) A sailor on a smack whose job is to bait and shoot the lines

By adjusting their position on the boards, the crew can compensate for subtle changes in wind and course. One wrong move may be enough to send everyone into the drink, so the job of the boardsman is a tricky one.

1984, July 2, The Star-Democrat (Easton, Maryland), page 27

Roger Vaughn explains the tack, in relation to the boardsmen, stating: Part of the fun, not to mention exercise, in log canoe sailing smooth crew work with the heavy planks that keep these hulls on their feet or close to it.

1989, Nelson Lyles Forbes, The racing log canoe: Ancient traditions alive on the Chesapeake Bay, thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 34-36

In a stiff wind, the boardsmen run up 12-15 foot boards from side to balance the craft

2010, Stephen R. Brown, Tidewater: Images of the Chesapeake Bay, page 62:

(nautical) One who rides on the boards of a log canoe in order to balance it.


red light camera

en-noun

red light camera (plural red light cameras)

(law, automotive) An automatic traffic light enforcement camera which captures images of vehicles violating red lights.


trywork

From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) + work.

affix

(nautical) A furnace on a ship used to heat try pots.


try pot

From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) + pot.

Along Salamanca Wharf […] was a reminder of what first made the early colony of Tasmania: a large black whaler's trypot, used to boil stripped whale blubber so as to produce oil.

2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 183:

(nautical) A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans, pinnipeds and also to extract oil from penguins.

taraipāta

large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber and to extract oil from penguins


bring to

en-verb

bring to (third-person singular simple present brings to, present participle bringing to, simple past and past participle brought to)

brings to (present singular third-person)
bringing to (participle present)
brought to (participle past)
brought to (past)

(nautical, transitive) To turn into the wind; to check the course of (a ship) by trimming the sails so as to counteract each other.


go below

go below (third-person singular simple present goes below, present participle going below, simple past went below, past participle gone below)

goes below (present singular third-person)
going below (participle present)
went below (past)
gone below (participle past)

The weather's getting bad; you had better go below!

(intransitive, nautical) To go below deck on a ship; to leave the top deck of a ship.


send below

send below (third-person singular simple present sends below, present participle sending below, simple past and past participle sent below)

sends below (present singular third-person)
sending below (participle present)
sent below (participle past)
sent below (past)

(transitive or intransitive, nautical) To order someone to go below the top deck on a ship.


midshipmite

CHAPTER VII. In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel, what might be called midshipmite compunction.

1836, [Frederick Marryat], “In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel, what might be called midshipmite compunction”, in Mr. Midshipman Easy […], volume III, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 127:

(nautical, slang, archaic) A little or petty midshipman.


NGP

Nagpur Junction railway station
w:Nagpur Junction railway station

(rail transport) The station code of Nagpur Junction railway station in India.


reefable

(nautical) Of a sail: capable of being reefed.


beamshelf

(nautical) The structure that supports each end of a crossbeam


careener

(nautical) A person employed to expose the side of a ship by tilting it to carry out cleaning and repairs.


reval

(travel, aviation, informal) A revalidated ticket.


mooring post

(nautical) A bollard, or similar fixed post that a vessel may be moored to


Egg

(automotive, informal) A Koenigsegg car.


ship ahoy

(nautical) Interjection used to hail another ship or vessel, or to attract attention to the presence of another vessel nearby.

vaixell a la vista

interjection used to hail another ship or vessel, or to attract attention to it


TNC

(transport) Initialism of transport/transportation network company.


dunsel cap

"[The suspect was] described as black, 17-20 years old and wearing a dunsel cap and black plaid jacket..."

1975 December 18, The Cincinnati Enquirer:

"McLaughlin said the suspect was wearing a yellow tank top shirt and possibly glasses and a dunsel cap, which is similar to a ski cap with a tassel."

"Her long white hair was stuffed haphazardly into a dunsel cap..."

2011, Joani Lacy, Hollister House: The Banyan Tree Awakens, page 83:

In the school yard he saw his grammar-school self in dunsel cap and leather boots...

2013, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love: A Novel (Open Road Media), pages not numbered


dunsel

Possible coinage as a variation of English dunnage as dun + -sel with the suffix indicating singulative or diminutive. Earliest so-far documented use was in a Star Trek episode, "The Ultimate Computer". May not be a real word but merely an invention by a Star Trek writer.

If I'm not part of the crew and earn my keep, then I'm a dunsel. And you'll not have a dunsel aboard long […]

1982, Marteen Dee Graham, Silver Sundown, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:

[page 229] For those of you who don't recognize the term, dunsel was a term first used in Star Trek to characterize Captain Kirk in the episode "The Ultimate Computer." The plotline was about a scientist, Doctor Richard Daystrom, who installs a computer that is designed to operate the Enterprise without the need for the crew. The new M5 computer would enable mankind to explore the galaxy without putting human life in danger. Without a crew, a captain is pretty useless, and at one point Kirk was referred to as Captain Dunsel. […] Well, I'm using dunsel here to describe software or applications that don't need to be on your computer. […] [page 234] More than a few systems have been accessed via the guest account or other default accounts, so one thing we need to do is to remove all the dunsel default user accounts.

2007, Mark S. Kadrich, “Linux”, in Endpoint Security, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, pages 229 and 234:

I struggled down through the galley. / And again up to the mast. / I even checked on the dunsel, / Wrapped my girl's sails down, I wrapped 'em low and I wrapped 'em fast.

2015 September 2, Chris Mentch, “In the Face of Her Storm”, in As I See It: Reasons, Rhymes, and Reflections; the Spirit of a “Well-versed” Philosophy, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN:

(nautical) Something (especially part of a vessel) that is useless, or superfluous or unnecessary.

McCoy: “Who the blazes is ‘Captain Dunsel’?” / Spock: “Dunsel, Doctor, is a term used by midshipmen at Starfleet Academy. It refers to a part which serves no useful purpose.”

[1968, D[orothy] C[atherine] Fontana, “The Ultimate Computer”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 53 (DVD), Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount Pictures, published 2014, →ISBN:

DUNSEL – slang term for token human commanders aboard EDF [Earth Defense Force] rammer ships.

[2005, Kevin J[ames] Anderson, Scattered Suns (The Saga of Seven Suns; book 4), New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, glossary:

In EARTHBOUND we have the exact same story. There is nothing wrong with Simmonds per se, but, just like Captain Kirk in THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER [a Star Trek episode], he has become "Captain Dunsail"^([sic – meaning Dunsel]) in the sense of no longer having any function. He is suffering from the same state of lacked recognition that Gwent talks about.

2015 January 10, “The Infernal Machine”, in John K. Balor, editor, SPACE: 1999 – The 40th Anniversary Celebration: A New Episode by Episode Commentary and Analysis by Online Alpha, Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu, published September 2015, →ISBN, page 290:

(nautical, by extension) A captain of a vessel who has little or no authority.


warning triangle

en-noun

warning triangle (plural warning triangles)

If your vehicle breaks down, [...] put a warning triangle on the road at least 45 metres (147 feet) behind your broken-down vehicle on the same side of the road.

2007, The Official Highway Code, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 91:

(automotive) A triangle made of (usually) red reflective material, used to warn other road users of a broken-down vehicle.

مُثَلَّث التَنْبِيه

a triangle used to warn other road users


butterfly door

(automotive) A car door similar to scissor door, but while scissor doors move straight up via hinge points at the bottom of the A-pillar, butterfly doors move up and out via hinges along the A-pillar.


trailable

(railways) Of a system of points: arranged so that the train may run through them in a trailing direction, even if it is not set for that route.


ETCS

(railways, transport) Initialism of European Train Control System (a signalling, control and train protection system, especially for high-speed lines.)


axle load

To keep the axle load within a 28-ton maximum, two eight-wheel bogies are employed, all axles of which are motorised.

1963 August, “New 5,000 H.P.-Plus Diesels for U.S. Railroads”, in Modern Railways, page 127:

(transport, rail transport) the total weight, including load carried, transferred by one axle and its wheels to a road or railway surface. This is especially important in relation to what weight road and railway structures can carry, bridges in particular.


boomless

Another advantage of our boomless staysail is that it can overlap the mast a bit. This gives you a little more sail area and an increase in slot efficiency compared to the shorter-footed boomed staysail.

2010, Lin and Larry Pardey, The Capable Cruiser: 3rd edition, page 102:


mailcatcher

(railways, historical) A device on a train for picking up mailbags while the train is in motion.


midshipman's nuts

(nautical, slang) Broken pieces of biscuit eaten as dessert.


heavy cruiser

US Navy hull classification symbol: CA

(nautical) A type of cruiser, defined in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty and 1930 London Naval Treaty as having a main gun battery of roughly 8-inch caliber (203mm).


hexerei

(historical, nautical) A galley with six banks of oars.


LNWR

London and North Western Railway
w:London and North Western Railway

(rail transport, British) Initialism of London and North Western Railway.


funnel stay

(nautical) Any of the ropes, wires or rods steadying a ship's funnel.


gun deck

(nautical) The deck on an armed ship (man-of-war) on which the guns are placed.


helm port

The advantage arising from this form of rudder and mode of hanging it is this, that the hole through the counter or stern of the ship which is called the helm port, is wholly closed up by the head of the rudder passing through it, with almost a close joint, as the line of the centre of the pintles or hinges is made to pass through the centre of the rudder head, whereby the round head of the rudder becomes a large pintle before the fore side of the rudder head, and the rudder, necessarily working on the centre of the pintles, required that the hole through the counter of the ship for the reception of the head of the rudder should be made large enough to allow of the rudder working over with a radius equivalent to the diameter of the rudder head; the large helm port which was thence formed was found to be the source of leakage in the ship at all times, and, in the event of the loss of rudder at sea, the large aperture endangered the safety of the vessel.

1897, The Elementary Principles of Naval Architecture, page 273:

The 16th-century fluyts underwent yet another change: the cove, which we can see on Brueghel's engraving, and which had a helm port in it, through which the tiller entered the ship, disappeared.

1968, Hans Jürgen Hansen, Art and the Seafarer, page 32:

Towards the end of the century the size of the helm port on large ships was much reduced by bringing the head of the rudder inside the ship.

1989, Michael W. Marshall, Ocean traders, page 89:

(historical, nautical) A hole through the counter of a ship, through which the rudderstock passes.


horn timber

The truncated horn timbers had been led through the transom (exposing end grain to the elements incidentally) and firmly fastened to it.

1986, Jonathan Watson, Janet, the restoration of a Victorian yacht, page 28:

The rabbet for the comparatively horizontal horn timber is taken from the sections in the body plan.

1993, Robert Steward, Boatbuilding Manual, →ISBN, page 147:

The archboard assembly can now be erected, springing aft from the after most frame, and supported by the horn timber.

2013, Nick Miller, The Lancashire Nobby, →ISBN, page 96:

(nautical) A timber that angles up from the sternpost to support the overhang of the stern. A single vessel may have multiple horn timbers.


LHA

Abbreviation
* (data compression): Short for Lempel-Ziv Huffman archiver, after the mathematicians on whose work it was based.

Coordinate term: LHD

amphibious assault ship
amphibious assault ship#English

(nautical, military, aviation) Initialism of landing, helicopter, assault.: A type of amphibious assault ship, a warship.


XUV

XUV (countable and uncountable, plural XUVs)

sport utility vehicle
sport utility vehicle#English

(countable, automotive) Initialism of crossover utility vehicle or crossover sport utility vehicle.


navigation light

navigation light (plural navigation lights)

(nautical, aviation) one of two or more lights fitted to a ship or aircraft, which indicate position and direction taken, especially important at night. Internationally recognised colours are red on the port side, and green on the starboard side.


shoulder belt

(chiefly automotive) A seat belt worn over one shoulder and diagonally across the upper body (following the lower margin of the ribcage as it descends), providing restraint for the upper torso (often coupled with a lap belt which restrains the pelvic area and prevents submarining).

портупей

A belt worn diagonally across the upper body


property irregularity report

property irregularity report (plural property irregularity reports)

(aviation, travel) An official form to be filled out if checked baggage is lost or damaged by an airline.


VLT

Very Large Telescope
Virtual Link Trunking

(transport) A light rail system in Brazil.


weatherbound

en-adj

weatherbound (comparative more weatherbound, superlative most weatherbound)

more weatherbound (comparative)
most weatherbound (superlative)

WEATHERBOUND IN THE SUBURBS [title]. The air is damp, the skies are leaden; / The ominous lull of impending rain / Presses upon me, and seems to deaden / Every sense but a sense of pain. // Hopes of getting again to London / Lapse into utter and grim despair; […]

1869, Henry S[ambrooke] Leigh, “Weatherbound in the Suburbs”, in Carols of Cockayne, London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 99:

[I]n Denmark, a proverbially windy country, the season was exceptionally stormy. In consequence of all this we were frequently weather-bound, as a rule in the least interesting harbours, for several days at a time; […]

1889, Edward Frederick Knight, The “Falcon” on the Baltic. A Coasting Voyage from Hammersmith to Copenhagen in a Three-ton Yacht, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →OCLC:

We shall have to lie here weatherbound more than one twenty-four hours, with the southwest wind beginning work like this.

1908, Knud Rasmussen, edited by G. Herring, The People of the Polar North: A Record, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. Dryden House, Gerrard Street, W., →OCLC, page 86:

A crowd of Arabs, Zeid's men, weather-bound here on their way to Feisal, ran out when they heard her trumpeting approach, and shouted with joy at so distinguished an entry into the village.

1927, T[homas] E[dward] Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

The idea behind the cruiser is a vessel in which my wife and I could cruise in comfort the year round, and yet fast enough to take part in an occasional ocean race, a vessel that in meeting a head wind in the channel could make good on her passage instead of spending weeks weatherbound. For having left trading schooners and ketches and wholesome yachts weatherbound in Dover when in a little 6-metre, which made the passage to Newhaven dead to windward in 12 hours, I realise that the ability to go to windward is very desirable however much cruising men may scorn it, for it was not the weather, although it blew hard, that kept these vessels weatherbound, but the knowledge that with the wind and sea against them they would only fetch back to Dover again after a long tack off and on.

1934, Uffa Fox, Sailing Seamanship and Yacht Construction, London: Edward Davies, OCLC 3581707; republished Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2002, ISBN 978-0-486-42329-6, page 262

Next morning a gale was blowing and even the fishing fleet was weatherbound, huddled together in the lee of the outer breakwater as the sea feathered and plumed over the esplanade.

1986, Jonathan Raban, Coasting, London: Collins Harvill, ISBN 978-0-00-272119-6; republished London: Picador, 1987, ISBN 978-0-330-29977-0, page 55

I see in the paper circulated, that the enemy last night used 210 bombers over Great Britain. Have they had losses similar to those we suffered? Or are our aerodromes far more weatherbound than theirs?

1995, Geoffrey Williams, Flying through Fire: FIDO – the Fogbuster of World War Two, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:

[T]here is Judgment Day—a sense of visitation, the smell of fear, the appearance of the unwanted, ten nights in a barroom and the thrill of waiting around for the end of the world—in the most weatherbound.

1997, Greil Marcus, Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 978-0-8050-3393-9; republished as The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, New York, N.Y.: Picador, 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-42043-7

(often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.


VCU

vehicle control unit
vehicle control unit#English

(transport) Initialism of vehicle control unit.


train time

(rail transport, often plural) The time when a scheduled passenger train departs or arrives according to the timetable.


TOD

en-noun

TOD (countable and uncountable, plural TODs)

transit-oriented development
w:transit-oriented development

(urban studies, transport) Initialism of transit-oriented development.


railwaywoman

Some 100,000 railwaymen have been released to join the fighting forces, 90,000 are training as Home Guards in addition to their railway work, 170,000 members of the railway staffs have been fully trained in A.R.P. duties, and 100,000 railwaywomen are now employed.

1943 March-April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

(rail transport) A woman who works on a railway.

железничарка

woman who works on a railway — see also railwayman


mooring buoy

(nautical) a buoy at which a boat or ship can moor (tie up), usually in a harbour, but also in coastal waters for large ships.


light buoy

(nautical) A buoy with a light on top which is lit at night to aid navigation.


smart steaming

(nautical) The optimisation of ship speed with respect to competing targets to reduce fuel usage while maintaining good customer service.


slow steaming

(nautical) The practice of deliberately operating a ship at a speed slower than its design speed in order to achieve a reduction in total fuel usage.


PDL

passenger dedicated line
passenger dedicated line#English

(rail transport) Initialism of passenger dedicated line.


passenger dedicated line

passenger dedicated line (plural passenger dedicated lines)

(rail transport) A railroad line which is dedicated for the exclusive use of passenger trains.

客運專線

railroad line dedicated for the exclusive use of passenger trains


portsill

(nautical) A horizontal wooden member that forms the sill of a gunport.


courtesy flag

(nautical) a flag (of the country being visited) flown by a visiting vessel as a token of respect, as well as the vessel's own national or house flag.


deadleg

Companies can transport on a nationwide basis but usually only carry their products out and have a deadleg on the return trip, e.g., the sugar distributors.

1984, Gavin Grant Maasdorp, Transport Policies and Economic Development in Southern Africa:

Our convoy appeared as a huge centipede, winding its way uphill that had acquired various deadlegs at random.

2001, Andrew Gurr, A Little Piece of England, page 79:

(shipping) A vehicle that is traveling on a leg of its route in which it does not carry any cargo.


six-water grog

(nautical, historical) Rum diluted with six measures of water instead of the normal three, formerly used as a disciplinary measure for sailors.


rodmeter

(nautical) A blade that extends into the water under the hull of a vessel, used in measuring the vessel's speed.


pitometer

(nautical) A log (speed measuring device) somewhat similar to a pitot tube.


put to sea

en-verb

put to sea (third-person singular simple present puts to sea, present participle putting to sea, simple past and past participle put to sea)

puts to sea (present singular third-person)
putting to sea (participle present)
put to sea (participle past)
put to sea (past)

(nautical, of a boat or ship) To leave a port or harbour on a voyage, or for other purposes such as fishing.


oil change

(automotive) the process of draining old oil from an engine or gearbox and refilling with fresh oil, often done at recommended intervals.


TJI

turbulent jet ignition
turbulent jet ignition#English

(automotive) Initialism of turbulent jet ignition. (an ignition system for cylinders in internal combustion engines)


GER

Great Eastern Railway
w:Great Eastern Railway

(UK, rail transport) Initialism of Great Eastern Railway.


PHEVLER

plug-in hybrid electric vehicle with long electric range#English

(automotive) Abbreviation of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle with long electric range. A PHEV (“plug-in hybrid electric vehicle”) with sufficient battery capacity for about twice the average daily driving distance.

BEVx

Battery Electric Vehicle w/ Range Extender


WPG

(US, military, nautical) Initialism of weather, patrol, gunship/gunboat. (a designation shiptype for the U.S. Coast Guard ocean-going cutters) These USCG patrol vessels also function as meteorological stations, and are equipped with deck guns.

WDE

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval frigate shiptype

WAVP

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the seaplane tender shiptype

WHEC

high endurance, cutter; a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval light cruiser shiptype

WMEC

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval destroyer shiptype

WPC

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval patrolcraft shiptype

WPB

a USCG ocean-going cutter of the naval patrolboat shiptype


reaccommodate

reaccommodate (third-person singular simple present reaccommodates, present participle reaccommodating, simple past and past participle reaccommodated)

reaccommodates (present singular third-person)
reaccommodating (participle present)
reaccommodated (participle past)
reaccommodated (past)

(aviation, travel) to rebook a passenger on a flight when the original flight is cancelled.


afterguardsman

1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html
"I found an afterguardsman in our part of the ship here and I bid him be off where he belongs."

(historical, nautical) A member of the afterguard on a sailing ship


logboard

Attested since 1659 as log-board. A compound of log + board.

1659, Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale New Plain'd, by John Collins
Every Noon the Master and his Mates take the reckoning off the Log-board, and double the Knots run, and then divide the Product, which is the number of Miles run by three, the quotient is the Leagues run since the former Noon, and according to custom the Log is thrown every two hours, and I never knew the course nearer expressed on the Log-board, then to half a point of the Compass.

(nautical) A board on a vessel displaying the current portion of the log, to be transcribed later into the logbook.


brake line

(automotive) A line that conveys fluid from a vehicle's brake pedal to the brakes when they are applied.


ASDS

autonomous spaceport drone ship
autonomous spaceport drone ship#English

(aerospace, nautical) Initialism of autonomous spaceport drone ship.


metre gauge

The first thing that strikes the stranger is the sharpness of the curves on the metre gauge; it is not unusual for a long train to be travelling in three directions at once, and the engine is frequently in full view of the windows of the ninth or tenth carriage.

1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:

(rail transport) A track gauge of one metre.


shikara

You can also take a shikara to a library right in the heart of the Dal.

2016 June 19, “Cafe culture brews in chinar country”, in The Times of India:

(India, nautical) A type of small wooden boat


cess path

[…] the truck was lifted and the crumped mass freed from wheels and springs and rails and laid on a blanket on the cess-path […]

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 202:

So successful are the spray mixtures applied in early summer each year that along mainlines very little grows on the permanent way or cess path.

1989, Oliver Gilbert, The Ecology of Urban Habitats, London: Chapman & Hall, published 2012, section 8.1:

(rail transport) Path running along the cess next to a railway line.


DCT

en-noun

DCT (countable and uncountable, plural DCTs)

dual clutch transmission
dual clutch transmission#English

(automotive) Initialism of dual clutch transmission.


COMPACFLT

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.


USPACFLT

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.


COMSUBPAC

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, submarine force, U.S. Navy Pacific fleet.


MARCOM

(nautical, military) Abbreviation of maritime forces command.


MARPAC

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces, Pacific.


COMMARCOM

(nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, maritime forces command.


CANMARCOM

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of Canadian maritime forces command.


COMMARPAC

Unlike NORAD where a formally constituted bi-national command staff existed to handle emergencies, the bilateral naval organization, which was every bit as complex as that of NORAD but did not have the same history of political sensitivity, relied on liaison between the key headquarters: COMASWFORLANT in the United States and COMARLANT in Canada to deal with the Atlantic with a parallel structure on the Pacific through COMTHIRDFLT and COMMARPAC respectively.

2007, Peter T. Haydon, “Canadian Involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis Re-Reconsidered”, in The Northern Mariner, volume 17, number 2, CNRS & NASOH, →ISSN, page 62:

When I was assigned to COMMARPAC headquarters in 1973, it was for two reasons. The first was to get headquarters staff officer experience which helps your career down the road, and the second was I had some health issues and the flight surgeons wanted me out of the cockpit for a while.

2021, Lewis Allen Lambert, chapter 28, in On the 8th Day, God Created a Marine, Bloomington: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

(Canada, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, maritime forces, Pacific.


swirl flap

(automotive) A small butterfly valve fitted to the intake manifold just before the cylinder head intake ports of many modern automotive diesel engines, and around which air can pass even when it is closed.


COMSUBFOR

(US, nautical, military) Abbreviation of commander, submarine forces.


landlubbing

Back-formation from landlubber, using -ing.

Some sweet motion of the sea
And feathered form the Chickadee
Twenty-seven miles from land
it makes landlubbing mind expand.

1983 August 20, “Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 18:

(nautical, derogatory) Unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship.


deep draft

(nautical) Synonym of draft (depth of water needed to float a vessel)


air draft

(nautical) The distance from the surface of the water to the highest point on a vessel


engine compartment

engine compartment (plural engine compartments)


engine bay

(automotive) The section in a vehicle where the engine is situated.


car part

(automotive) A part that can be fitted to a car, often as a replacement for a worn-out or damaged part.


roll hoop

(automotive) A roll bar behind the headrest of a seat in a vehicle.


masthead sloop

(nautical) A sailboat whose forestay goes from the masthead to the bow


unweatherly

en-adj

unweatherly (comparative more unweatherly, superlative most unweatherly)

more unweatherly (comparative)
most unweatherly (superlative)


forehood

Where the curvature is sharp they should be scribed very close together. The batten is next taken off the ship and laid on the timber from which the forehood is to be cut.

1919, William Henry Curtis, The Elements of Wood Ship Construction:

(nautical, ship-building) One of the most forward of the outside and inside planks


luff up

en-verb

luff up (third-person singular simple present luffs up, present participle luffing up, simple past and past participle luffed up)

luffs up (present singular third-person)
luffing up (participle present)
luffed up (participle past)
luffed up (past)

(nautical) To turn towards the wind so that the sails flap


lay to

lay to (third-person singular simple present lays to, present participle laying to, simple past and past participle laid to)

lays to (present singular third-person)
laying to (participle present)
laid to (participle past)
laid to (past)

(nautical) To turn towards the wind so that the boat stops; to remain stationary in open water or to lie to.


straddling bus

en-noun

straddling bus (plural straddling buses)

(transport, automotive) A bus with a passenger compartment raised above road level, allowing other traffic to pass underneath and hence helping to avoid traffic jams.


mizzensail

Six of the Krabben's massive tentacles had wrapped themselves around the mizzensail.

2015, J. L. Ficks, J. E. Dugue, The Weeping Grounds:

(nautical) A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast.