t'garns'l

Smite me if I haven't been swearing you was a gentleman born and bred ever since I first lugged you out of the t'garns'l.

1896, William Clark Russell, The Convict Ship:

(nautical, slang) Alternative spelling of topgallant sail


monkey bridge

(nautical) The highest navigational platform on the bridge of a ship.


tender-first

In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running.

1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66:

For the first time known in over 10 years, a Stanier Pacific travelled the Windermere branch on June 23, when 46255 (12A) was seen at Aikrigg on an early afternoon local; it had to return tender-first as the Windermere turntable could not accommodate it.

1962 August, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Central Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 136:

(rail transport, also used adverbially) Of a steam locomotive with a tender (a tender locomotive), when it is operating in reverse, with the tender leading.


snotty's nurse

(nautical, slang) A lieutenant who supervises a midshipman.


top-end

(automotive) Of or relating to the higher gears on a geared engine, especially in a motor vehicle.


bottom-end

The lack of bottom-end grunt presents as a particular problem in hilly terrain where the five-speed manual gearbox really earns its keep.

2021 February 12, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 55, column 2:

(automotive) Of or relating to the lower gears on a geared engine, especially in a motor vehicle.


ferry wagon

One train ferry wagon, with the inscription "On hire to L.N.E.R.," was carrying British prisoners; and another odd sight was an L.N.E.R. container on a German flat wagon, offering "Door to Door Transport."

1946 March and April, “Notes and News: Train Watching in a P.O.W. Camp”, in Railway Magazine, page 117:

The first of 150 Continental-type four-wheel ferry wagons ordered by B.R. have been received for the Harwich/Zeebrugge train ferry service. Built by the Pressed Steel Co., the vans have a maximum capacity of 20½ tons in ordinary and 18 tons in express freight service.

1962 October, “New ferry wagons for B.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 225:

(rail transport, UK, dated) Any type of goods wagon built for train ferry traffic to and from continental Europe.


after-hatch

Rasmus sat in the after-hatch at the helm, while the boy was now forward, now aft, as circumstances required.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:

(nautical) A hatch located towards the aft of a vessel.


pilot coat

So called because it was worn by seamen or aviators.

As he sat there with a sou'wester down over his ears, in a long pilot coat, his figure appeared in the misty morning air to assume quite supernatural proportions, and you might almost imagine that you had one of the old Vikings before you.

For some years past the favorite costume of the out-and-out young gentleman has been a rough pilot coat, with two gilt hooks and eyes to the velvet collar; buttons somewhat larger than crown-pieces; a black or fancy neckerchief, loosely tied; a wide-brimmed hat, with a low crown; tightish inexpressibles, and iron-shod boots.

1833-36, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, "The Out and Out Young Gentleman", in The Oxford Illustrated Dickens, p. 596


MCM

en-noun

MCM (countable and uncountable, plural MCMs)

(military, nautical) Initialism of (naval) mine countermeasure(s).


block section

"Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.

1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232:

(rail transport) In railway signalling, a section of track on which, in normal circumstances, only one train is allowed at one time.


VSTB

(automotive) Abbreviation of vehicle system test bed or vehicle systems test bed.; a test bed for system(s) of the particular vehicle being modeled.


direction indicator

direction indicator (plural direction indicators)

(automotive) A turn signal or indicator.


steeple cab

All main line work is carried out by the Type 1s, whose principal design fault is offside "blindness", due to the position of the driving cab behind a long, high nose; a steeple cab would obviously be preferable.

1962 October, M.J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, page 265:

(rail transport) A centrally placed cab on some early electric locomotives.


trip working

trip working (countable and uncountable, plural trip workings)

The provision of the new yard permitted closure of four existing installations, between which there was a great deal of trip working.

1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 267:

(rail transport, UK, uncountable) The operation of short-distance freight trains, e.g. between goods yards.


LCI

(military, nautical) Initialism of landing craft, infantry.


brake fade

To help prevent a runaway caused by brake fade, heavy trucks are required to stop at the top of the downgrade to give their brakes time to cool.

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(automotive, rail transport, mechanical engineering) Partial or total loss of braking force with prolonged continuous or repetitive application of a heavy vehicle's brakes, due to the effects on the brake system of the heat generated by heavy braking.


loading bank

(rail transport, UK, dated) A platform, often with a ramp at one or both ends, provided in a railway goods yard for the purpose of loading and unloading goods wagons.


cattle dock

The depot covers an area of 57 acres and consists of a shed 480ft by 207ft to handle both forwarded and received traffic, a combined office and amenities block, weighbridge and a cattle dock.

1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Walsall sundries concentration depot”, in Modern Railways, page 367:

(rail transport, UK, dated) A pen on a platform in a railway goods yard for cattle travelling by rail.


elliptic spring

elliptic spring (plural elliptic springs)

The bogie bolster itself is mounted on two double elliptic springs, which are spaced by a channel section spring plank suspended from the bogie frame by swing hangers and knife-edge rockers.

1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, page 382:

(mechanical engineering, automotive) A curved leaf spring of different styles.


union station

The Burlington had built a union station at the junction, but the Union Pacific refused to stop its trains there until it received an interest in the townsite.

1978 May, Alice Howell, “Railroads in Buffalo County”, in Buffalo Tales [a newsletter of the Buffalo County Historical Society, Buffalo County, Nebraska], volume 1, number 5, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

(rail transport, US, Canada) A railroad station shared by more than one railroad company, usually to spread the costs and ease the logistics of serving a particular town by rail.


regenerative braking

Dead-man's handle, automatic train stop, quick-acting compressed-air brake specially suited for high-speed working, and regenerative braking are among the features of the new locomotives.

1947 March and April, “Swiss High-Speed Electric Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:

Regenerative braking, whereby the car's kinetic energy is fed back to the supply line, has recently been introduced on the Kei-Han-Shin Kyuko Railway's commuter services feeding Osaka, instead of resistor braking, and on 52 lightweight cars built in 1960 and 1961 advantage has been taken of this feature to install constant speed controls.

1962 December, “Constant-speed electric multiple-units in Japan”, in Modern Railways, page 404:

Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.

2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(rail transport, automotive, electrical engineering) A form of braking used on some electric vehicles in conjunction with the main braking system, where kinetic energy from braking is converted into electricity and fed back into the power supply by using the traction motors as generators.


burrowing junction

burrowing junction (plural burrowing junctions)

The latter and the Basle-Gotthard freight traffic will both pass through Othmarsingen, but an additional line here and a burrowing junction will keep the Gotthard freights clear.

1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Transformation at Zurich”, in Modern Railways, page 417:

(rail transport) A junction where the diverging line descends to a level where it can pass under the main line, the purpose being the avoidance of conflicting movements.


quarterdecker

(nautical) A ship that has a quarterdeck; an officer who serves on a quarterdeck


hard class

One main line only can show any mile-a-minute running, and that is the straight and reasonably level 404 miles between Moscow and Leningrad. There are two diesel-hauled expresses in each direction daily—rather oddly carrying "hard class" passengers only—which cover the distance in 6hr 20min [...].

1962 December, “Beyond the channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:

(travel, informal) A class of accommodation, typically on trains, which is less comfortable than other classes, and might have wooden seating.


crush depth

crush depth (usually uncountable, plural crush depths)

(nautical) The depth at which a submarine's pressure hull will collapse under external water pressure, causing the submarine to implode.


test depth

test depth (usually uncountable, plural test depths)

(nautical, military) The maximum depth at which a submarine is permitted to operate in peacetime.


design depth

design depth (usually uncountable, plural design depths)

(nautical) The maximum depth at which a submarine is designed to be able to operate safely.


Trans-Siberian Railway

Over the Trans-Siberian Railway, although the journey from Moscow to Vladivostock or Pekin, 5,800 and 5,629 miles distant respectively, still extends into the ninth day, it has been cut by about 10hr.

1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:

(rail transport) A network of Russian railway lines which stretch from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the Far East.


operating depth

operating depth (usually uncountable, plural operating depths)

(nautical, military) The maximum depth at which a submarine is permitted to operate when actively engaged in battle.


crush load

(transport) The maximum number of passengers that can physically fit within a transit vehicle without requiring severe contortions by said passengers.

The frequent occurrence of crush loads is indicative of a severely overloaded system requiring immediate improvements to increase its passenger capacity.

(transport) A situation in which one or more transit vehicles are carrying the maximum number of passengers that they can physically accommodate without requiring severe contortion of passengers.


quayful

a quayful of broken cargo

(nautical) As much or many as a quay can accommodate.


arm-chest

This Disappointment chagreen’d the Ship’s Company, who were very intent upon their Market; which was reported to be an Arm-Chest full of Gold, and kept with three Keys;

1724, Daniel Defoe, chapter 11, in A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, page 265:

[…] as soon as he had taken charge of the deck, he saw Mr. Hayward, the mate of his watch, lie down on the arm-chest to take a nap;

1831, John Barrow, chapter 3, in The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty,, London: John Murray, page 87:

[…] there being no line-and-sinker at hand, I sent Jarl to hunt them up in the arm-chest on the quarter-deck, where doubtless they must be kept.

1849, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Mardi, volume 1, New York: Harper, page 79:

[…] he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.

1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 4:

(historical, nautical) A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship.


API donut

From API + donut; from American Petroleum Institute, and its shape.

(US, automotive) An information table found on cans of motor oil, conforming to U.S. standards, which indicates the weight (viscosity) and type of oil. The central circle provides the oil viscosity rating (ie. 10W50), while the upper annulus section provides the oil type (ie. SP).


misfetch

Sometimes you had to work the weather side on account of that being too far to get across the sand to a wreck from the leeward. That wasn't very nice, because you hadn't got no shelter and if you made a misfetch you'd soon be up alongside the wreck yourself.

1980, Hervey Benham, The Salvagers, page 69:

(nautical) The act of fetching to the wrong location.


misfetch

en-verb

misfetch (third-person singular simple present misfetches, present participle misfetching, simple past and past participle misfetched)

misfetches (present singular third-person)
misfetching (participle present)
misfetched (participle past)
misfetched (past)

Furthermore, the direct container handling at shipside can also be controlled by the ACYAS in order to prevent containers from misfetching.

1986, International Journal on Policy and Information - Volume 10, page 41:

In Halfway Reach we mis-fetched and narrowly missed colliding with a fast moving freighter.

1989, Dick Durham, The Last Sailorman, page 85:

(nautical) To steer to the incorrect location when trying to fetch somewhere.


user-worked

A near-miss between a Greater Anglia Class 755 and two cars on a user-worked level crossing near Wroxham is being investigated by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB).

2021 March 10, “RAIB investigates near-miss at user-worked crossing”, in RAIL, number 926, page 18:

(rail transport, UK) Of a level crossing, one where a railway crosses a right of way such as a road on private land, a footpath or a bridleway. Any gates or barriers provided often need to be operated manually, with some crossings requiring users to telephone a signaller to check that it is safe to cross.


non-bogie

A limit of 75 m.p.h., therefore, is reasonable—and will give wagon designers enough to keep them busy, he thinks, as the problems of stability for all categories of freight traffic are far from being solved at present, especially with non-bogie wagons.

1963 April, “Beyond the Channel: France: Freight stock of the future”, in Modern Railways, page 269:

(rail transport, of a vehicle) Not mounted on bogies; having wheels and axles not incorporated in bogies.


NDB

non-directional beacon
nuclear depth bomb

(military, nautical) Initialism of nuclear depth bomb.


disreef

disreef (third-person singular simple present disreefs, present participle disreefing, simple past and past participle disreefed)

disreefs (present singular third-person)
disreefing (participle present)
disreefed (participle past)
disreefed (past)

(nautical) To let out (a reefed sail) to increase the area it exposes to the wind.


halo headlight

(automotive) A kind of headlight arranged in a circular pattern.


jumboization

(nautical) The shipbuilding technique of enlarging a ship by inserting middle sections to it, extending its length.


bank effect

(nautical) The effect of suction from the nearside shore or close watercourse bed, caused by the Bernoulli effect making a low pressure zone in the constricted region, leading vessels to be drawn to that surface.


flying junction

en-noun

flying junction (plural flying junctions)

At the same time, NR will remodel two tracks to form the 75mph slow lines, with a flying junction at Thornhill where the lines from Wakefield Kirkgate and Leeds meet.

2021 April 21, Philip Haigh, “NR submits detailed plans for TransPennine Upgrade”, in RAIL, number 929, page 12:

(rail transport) A junction where the diverging line crosses the main line on a bridge, the purpose being the avoidance of conflicting movements.


dog basket

[…] and would look with quiet scorn on his less punctilious shipmates when they made a rush at the cuddy "dog basket."

1879, The Nautical Magazine, volume 48, page 307:

A very good table was kept, and the dog-basket and menavelings from it alone would have supplied the fo'c'stle twice over.

1893, John Arthur Barry, Steve Brown's Bunyip: And Other Stories, page 34:

(slang, nautical, archaic) A container holding the remnants of meals from the cabin.


LPV

(nautical) Initialism of landing platform vessel/vehicle.


HKU

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


LPD

(nautical) Initialism of landing, platform, dock.


LSV

(automotive) Abbreviation of low speed vehicle.


through the hawsehole

(nautical, slang) Of an officer: having risen from the grade of an ordinary seaman, whose original position in the vessel was forward, before the mast.


horse bus

Southwold was served by horse bus from Darsham until the well-known Ipswich firm of Ransomes & Rapier interested itself in the project for a railway.

1939 July, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Southwold Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:

(transport, historical) A horse-drawn omnibus.


Jacobs bogie

The use of Jacobs bogies, where one bogie supports the ends of two carriages, reduces the number of axles, cutting wheel and track wear. [...] For example, lightweight construction and Jacobs bogies save weight, and a lighter train uses less power.

2021 May 19, David Clough, “Swiss precision meets UK growth”, in RAIL, number 931, pages 56, 57:

(rail transport) A design of bogie used for articulated passenger trains and trams, where the ends of two cars are mounted on the same bogie.


running powers

No wonder, then, that against a background of surging aggressive prosperity, South Wales built up during the last half of the nineteenth century a local railway system of great density and complexity, in which almost every company competed with every other in its area, and in which working agreements, running powers and strategic junctions ran riot across the railway map.

1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 158:

This was done, and in many cases still is done by the main-line railway groups, through the exercise of running powers, which on application to Parliament by the company using them have been granted for the express purpose of affording this access without the necessity for building independent tracks. In other cases, such running powers have been granted without recourse to Parliament, by voluntary agreement between the parties.

1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: Running Powers”, in Railway Magazine, page 318:

(rail transport, UK) Permission given in an agreement allowing one railway company to run trains over certain tracks belonging to another railway company.


shot in the locker

shot in the locker (plural shots in the locker)

(nautical, slang) Money or other resources available on hand.


twice-laid

There should have been there a superb dish of twice-laid, only the rats had eaten up all the salt fish, and the Commodore and his friends had eaten up all the potatoes […]

(slang, nautical, archaic) A dish prepared from cold fish and potatoes.


royal train

The Royal Train which will be used for the forthcoming tour of the King and Queen and the Princesses through the Union of South Africa will consist of 14 coaches, of which eight have been built recently by the Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 36:

(rail transport) A set of railway carriages dedicated for the use of the monarch or other members of a royal family.


slop chest

(nautical) A supply of clothing and other items on board a ship, which can be purchased by the seamen.


tender engine

To prevent glare from open firebox doors on locomotives being observed from the air, all tender engines have been fitted with tarpaulin screens which are carried over the space between the cab and tender during blackout hours. The one shown here is on a Southern Railway locomotive.

1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 316, photo caption:

(rail transport) Any steam locomotive that has a tender attached, carrying its supply of fuel and water; the term is normally used to distinguish from a tank engine.


flag list

(military, nautical) A list of active flag officers.


draw into

en-verb

draw into (third-person singular simple present draws into, present participle drawing into, simple past drew into, past participle drawn into)

draws into (present singular third-person)
drawing into (participle present)
drew into (past)
drawn into (participle past)

The train was drawing into the station.

(transport) (especially of a train) To arrive at.


NOP

(rail transport) The station code of North Point in Hong Kong.


backshunt

Another peculiarity of this branch is that, like the Chard line, it has no direct connection with the main line, a backshunt into a siding being necessary before this can be reached.

1939 December, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: II. Salisbury and Exeter, S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 412:

(rail transport, UK) A section of railway track which gives access to a siding (or another section of railway line) only by reversing direction; also a train movement which uses such track.


end-on

Beyond the station an end-on junction was made with the L.N.W.R., which worked most of the M. & C. trains on to Workington and Whitehaven.

1939 December, “Notes on the Maryport & Carlisle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 417:

(rail transport) Of a link between the tracks of two railway companies that meet end on, forming a through line, at a point called an end-on junction.


brake check

brake check (third-person singular simple present brake checks, present participle brake checking, simple past and past participle brake checked)

brake checks (present singular third-person)
brake checking (participle present)
brake checked (participle past)
brake checked (past)

The CHP said it’s seeing an increase in reports of people being more aggressive on the road. “If somebody honks, they’ll honk back. If somebody cuts them off, they will brake check and they will go back and forth,” said Officer Ceja.

2020, Renée Santos, “Caught On Camera: Driver ‘Brake Checks’ Vehicle, Causing Driver To Lose Control On Highway 50”, in CBS Sacramento:

(automotive) To deliberately brake in an unexpected place to hinder or startle the driver behind.


rerailment

(rail transport) The action of rerailing; restoring a derailed locomotive or train to its rails.


CCB

carbon ceramic brake
carbon ceramic brake#English

(automotive) Initialism of carbon ceramic brake.

(rail transport) Abbreviation of computer controlled brake.


locoshed

Grosmont is the locomotive headquarters of the Railway with the main locoshed and shops of 1973 vintage.

1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:

(rail transport) Short for locomotive shed.


autocoach

It is hoped to feature the historic vehicles to be found on the line in a future article, so that full justice may be done to the painstaking work of renovation on many of them, such as the North Eastern Railway Coach Group's NER autocoach No 3453.

1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 415:

(rail transport) An unpowered railway coach with a driving cab at one end, used in a push-pull train in conjunction with a locomotive or other powered vehicle.


runpast

The Znin Wask (600mm) narrow-gauge line. 0-4-0 tender/tank No T49 114 stages a photographic runpast for the WRS party.

1979 August, P.R.G Kennard, “Polish steam panorama”, in Railway World, page 419, photo caption:

(rail transport, photography) A staged event, usually on a railfans' excursion, where a train runs past a group of photographers, who photograph the scene.


run-flat

(automotive) Of a pneumatic tire, designed to resist the effects of deflation when punctured, and to allow the vehicle to continue to be driven (although usually at a reduced speed).


run-flat

(automotive) A pneumatic tire designed to resist the effects of deflation when punctured, and to allow the vehicle to continue to be driven (although usually at a reduced speed).


four-wheel steering
w:four-wheel steering

(automotive) Initialism of four-wheel steering.


charging point

"[...] This will include identifying ways to improve accessibility, create new commercial space and improve connections with walking, cycling and other transport services, as well as supporting sustainable travel in rural areas with electric vehicle charging points in car parks."

2021 June 30, Anthony Lambert, “A railway station fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 934, page 43:

(automotive) A facility provided for the purpose of charging / recharging batteries of electric vehicles.


budget airline

I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.

2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52:


en-noun

A1A-A1A (countable and uncountable, plural A1A-A1As)

(rail transport, uncountable) A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two three-axle bogies / trucks, the two outer axles of each bogie are powered and the centre axle is unpowered.


mixed gauge

mixed gauge (countable and uncountable, plural mixed gauges)

An ingenious method was used in the early days of mixed gauges on the Great Western Railway, by which narrow gauge and broad gauge trains could be sent on diverging paths without the use of ordinary switches controlled from a signalbox.

1940 May, “Pertinent Paragraphs: Old Time Permanent Way Devices”, in Railway Magazine, page 305:

(rail transport) A description of a railway track with (usually) three rails, which enables trains of two different track gauges to run over it.


bogie bolster wagon

bogie bolster wagon (plural bogie bolster wagons)

(rail transport, UK) A long flat wagon mounted on two four-wheel bogies, with transverse baulks of timber (bolsters) placed at intervals on the wagon's bed to carry the load.


refreshment car

refreshment car (plural refreshment cars)

Five trains only in each direction between Euston and Wolverhampton now incorporate refreshment cars in their formations, as compared with no fewer than thirteen over the shorter distance between Liverpool Street and Norwich.

1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Fewer meals on wheels?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121:

(rail transport) A vehicle included in a train, in which refreshments (food and drink) are provided to passengers.


day return

Special cheap day return facilities have been introduced to popularise the railbuses.

1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Railbuses on the W.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121:

(travel, UK) A reduced-price fare and ticket for a journey on public transport out and back in one day.


track-circuiting

[...] full track-circuiting throughout the area is to be carried over the Royal Albert Bridge so that the employment of single-line tokens over this single-line section can be abandoned.

1959 March, “Talking of Trains: Modernisation at Plymouth”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122:

(rail transport) The provision of track circuits.


fully-fitted

They will be called upon to deal with freight trains of up to 900 tons over gradients considerably steeper than those of the Central Section—for example, the frequent stretches of 1 in 100 between Victoria and the Medway towns—and their running to fast schedules will include the haulage of the "Night Ferry", which may load up to as much as 700 tons, and fully-fitted trains of 30 or more heavy Continental train ferry wagons.

1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 123:

(rail transport) Usually of a freight train, having all brakes connected to the brake pipe running throughout the train, thus being under the control of the train driver.


drop lot

(US, transport) A site where equipment and vehicles transporting goods can be temporarily stored or parked, before resuming the delivery later on.


avcat

From aviation, aviation carrier (aircraft carrier), and aviation turbine fuel (avtur).

(US, military, aviation, nautical) Synonym of JP-5, the U.S. Navy jet fuel.


reporting mark

(rail transport, US, Canada) A code of up to four letters allocated to and used by railroads and other owners of rolling stock for identification purposes, shown on each rail vehicle in combination with an individual number for the vehicle.


red rattler

(Australia, transport, obsolete) Any of various red coloured passenger trains formerly operating in eastern mainland Australia.


retaining valve

retaining valve (plural retaining valves)

(rail transport, mechanical engineering) A device that retains some air pressure in a train's air brake cylinders even when the automatic brake valve is set to the fully-released position, used on steep downgrades to allow a degree of continuous braking effort to be maintained without depleting the pressure in the train's brakepipe (which would result in the loss of nearly all braking ability, causing a runaway).


coal roller

(automotive) One that rolls coal; one that produces copious amounts of partially burnt fuel as black smoke in automotive exhaust on purpose.


railwayist

The importance of the British railways in the prosecution of the war makes it necessary to restrict the broad tolerance and even encouragement with which the railway companies in the past have viewed the enthusiasm of the railwayist.

1940 July, “Notes and News: The Appearance of Evil—A Warning to Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, page 418:

(rail transport, UK, dated) A railway enthusiast or railfan.


ambulance train

ambulance train (plural ambulance trains)

For example, in the case of ambulance train movements, the War Office makes the request and indicates the time the train will be required, and it is for the Operating Office to arrange for the throughout working in conjunction with the railway companies concerned.

1940 July, “Notes and News: The Work of the R.E.C.”, in Railway Magazine, page 420:

(rail transport, dated) In wartime, a special train provided for the conveyance of wounded servicemen.


brakepipe

(rail transport, mechanical engineering) A continuous pipe or hose filled with high-pressure air and running the length of a train, used to recharge the train's brake reservoirs with compressed air and to control the train's air brakes through changes in its internal air pressure.


shot soup

Beside this, every other day we had what English seamen call "shot soup" — great round peas, polishing themselves like pebbles by rolling about in tepid water.

1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas:

They ate in relays, surprised to find their appetites good: they wolfed salt junk and a weak concoction of peas in broth called shot soup.

1950, Robert W. Krepps, The Courts of the Lion, page 80:

(nautical, slang, archaic) A weak soup containing whole peas.


brassbounder

(nautical, historical) A young ship's apprentice whose parents paid for him to have certain privileges on board.


QF

(military, chiefly nautical, of artillery) Initialism of quick-firing.


base tunnel

(transport, civil engineering) A tunnel driven through the base of a mountain pass, rather than through the upper slopes of the mountains.


mark of the beast

mark of the beast (plural marks of the beast)

From Middle English, 1350–1400; earliest use in Wycliffe's Bible. Calque of Ancient Greek χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου (kháragma toû thēríou).

calque

χάραγμα τοῦ θηρίου

(nautical, slang, archaic) The patches on the lapels of a midshipman's jacket.


by the lay

Sailors on whaling ships were traditionally shipped by the lay.

(nautical) Paid a portion of any profits from the voyage, rather than receiving wages.


triple-headed

Some further pictures of his are reproduced at the head of this article and on page 557. One shows an example of a triple-headed train attacking the gradient, and results from one of the latest 2-10-4 "Selkirk" type locomotives, which can handle 1,000-ton trains up the grade, having been diverted to another duty ; as a heavy eastbound train (the Dominion) has had to leave Field with a Calgary Pacific as train engine, the assistance of a 2-10-2 has been insufficient, and a 2-8-2 has been added, making three engines in all.

1940 October, “Field Hill on the C.P.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 530:

(rail transport) Of a train, hauled by three locomotives.


summit tunnel

(transport, civil engineering) A tunnel driven through a pass at fairly high altitude to minimize the length of tunnel required, at the cost of requiring steeper and more winding routes up to each end of the tunnel.


logging railroad

en-noun

logging railroad (plural logging railroads)

(rail transport, forestry, US) A railroad built for the purpose of transporting logs out of a forest.


black sand

black sand (countable and uncountable, plural black sands)

(tourism) Basaltic sand of volcanic origin, frequently found associated with volcanic islands.


jackcrosstree

(nautical) The highest of the crosstrees of a ship; it supports the jackstaff


jackyard

(nautical) A spar at the top of a mast that supports a topsail


drawhook

[...] as to wrought iron drawhooks, the failure of one of which, in a coarsely crystalline condition, was the principal cause of the accident, it was laid down in March 1934, that all new wagon drawbars must be of steel to British Standard Specification No. 80, [...].

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


tender cab

But the 0-8-0 tender engines often run tender first, and No. 8932 has been fitted with a tender cab to give better protection to the enginemen when reverse running takes place.

1940 November, “Notes and News: Locomotive Working at Abergavenny”, in Railway Magazine, page 616:

In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running.

1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66:

(rail transport) A section of cab added to the front of a steam locomotive tender, to provide protection for the engine crew in inclement weather when running tender-first.


OBD

(automotive) Initialism of on-board diagnostic.


Elon time

From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates.

(automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commercial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla, Inc.; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk.


hike out

en-verb

hike out (third-person singular simple present hikes out, present participle hiking out, simple past and past participle hiked out)

hikes out (present singular third-person)
hiking out (participle present)
hiked out (participle past)
hiked out (past)

(nautical) to lean over the edge of a boat, in order to counterbalance its weight when it is tilted, to avoid heeling.


spurling pipe

(nautical) A pipe leading the anchor cable from the gypsy of a ship's windlass to the chain locker.


goashore

(nautical, historical, in the plural) A sailor's best clothes, to be worn when going on land.


CAW

Coordinate term: UAW

Canadian Auto Workers
w:Canadian Auto Workers

(labour, automotive, Canada) Initialism of Canadian Auto Workers.


hammer blow

The balancing of the engine is unusual, with the rotating masses fully balanced and 40 per cent of the reciprocating masses statically balanced by lead weights in the coupled wheels; the reciprocrating balance weights are in the same phase on both sides of the engine. This system saves balance weight and reduces the wheel hammer-blow.

1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:

(rail transport) A pounding of the rails by the driving wheels of a steam locomotive caused by the inertia of unbalanced parts.


closed loop

closed time loop
closed time loop#English

(time travel) Clipping of closed time loop.


train pipe

(rail transport) A brake pipe on a rail vehicle through which compressed air or vacuum is passed to operate the brakes throughout a train.


trackage rights

en-noun

trackage rights pl (normally plural, singular trackage right)

In addition, the combined system has trackage rights into Memphis, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama.

1941 January, “Notes and News: An Important American Amalgamation”, in Railway Magazine, page 34:

(rail transport, US) Synonym of running powers.


wheelbox

(nautical) A box beneath a ship's wheel containing the steering gear.


recovery time

Actually, the point-to-point times in general were not varied; the additions were all in the form of blocks of recovery time over certain selected stretches of line.

1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 475:

(rail transport) Additional time built into a train timetable to allow the train to recover from any delays en route, without arriving at its destination late according to the published arrival time.


bag reef

(nautical) The fourth or lower reef of a topsail.


MAIB

(UK, nautical) Initialism of Marine Accident Investigation Branch.


road pricing

If it was a part of a much wider range of policies designed to reduce the impact of transport - ranging from road pricing to free bus travel, much higher fuel prices to widespread adoption of low traffic neighbourhoods, just to name a few - then it might be worthwhile.

2021 September 22, Christian Wolmar, “A minimal contribution to decarbonisation targets”, in RAIL, number 940, page 77:

(transport) The practice of charging users or owners of motor vehicles for the use of the roads they travel on, whether it be on busier roads or at busier times, or as a method of discouraging road congestion.


electric locomotive

electric locomotive (plural electric locomotives)

(rail transport) A locomotive with its motors powered by electricity from overhead lines or (less commonly) from a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.


single-wheeler

It links the time when single-wheelers were still being used on crack expresses to our modern streamline age, when up to the outbreak of war developments both at home and overseas were following thick and fast upon each other.

1941 February, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part 1—G.N.R. 1911-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

(rail transport) A steam locomotive with a single driving axle.


banking engine

When the widening is complete, the majority of the trains from Tees-side and the North which have hitherto had to be routed via the Leeds Northern line (Ripon, Harrogate and Wetherby) will be diverted over the main line via York. This avoids the necessity to provide banking engines on the Leeds Northern route and will result in speedier transit times and the more efficient and economical use of engines and train crews.

1959 November, “Talking of Trains: Widening north of York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 518:

(rail transport, British) Synonym of banker (“type of railway locomotive”)


lifting shop

The new depot, on which work started in May, 1956, has three reception roads leading to 13 sidings capable of taking 25 trains, a 450 ft.-long car examination shed with nine roads, a lifting shop with two roads and three permanent way sidings.

1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 527:

(rail transport) A workshop where vehicles are lifted off their bogies for maintenance work to be carried out.


flat crossing

(rail transport, UK) A crossing where two railway lines cross each other on the same level.


wetline

[…] safety risks associated with the transportation of flammable liquids in unprotected product piping – known as wetlines – on DOT-specification cargo tank motor vehicles.

2003, Commercial Carrier Journal, volume 160:

Perhaps the best example is wetlines. Wetlines are unprotected piping located beneath a cargo tank that is used for the bottom loading of gasoline or other petroleum products. In April 2009, we asked PHMSA how many wetlines incidents occurred since 2000.

2009, Concerns with Hazardous Materials Safety in the U.S.: Is PHMSA Performing Its Mission?, United States Congress House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure:

(transport) An unprotected pipe located beneath a cargo tank that is used for loading of liquid products such as petroleum.


From vehicle-to-load technology, the capability of battery electric vehicles to provide power to electric appliances.

(countable and uncountable, automotive, electricity) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-load.


(automotive, power grid) Initialism of vehicle-to-load.


trap car

(automotive) A vehicle infused with very dark tints in order to evade capture or scrutiny.

(rail transport) A railroad car used for much smaller shipments usually within terminal or city limits.


swap body

(transport, freight) A demountable body, a type of freight container which can be transported by road or rail.


goods shed

And it wasn't just station buildings - workers' cottages, stationmasters' houses, signal boxes and goods sheds largely survived at a time when main line intermediate stations were being demolished.

2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 42:

(rail transport) A building in a railway goods yard for the storage of goods before or after transport by train, typically with a track running through it to allow goods wagons to be unloaded under cover, although sometimes they were built alongside a track with possibly just a canopy over the door.


locking room

Within these boxes, interlocking between points and signals was the most crucial safety aspect, with the signalman's pulling of levers further safeguarded through the equipment in the locking room (often beneath the signalman's station), which prevented conflicting movements.

2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 53:

The [Arboath North Signal Box] locking room's collection of chains, pulleys and wires resembles the inside of a piano, stretching to the 72-levered frame above. Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.

2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57:

(rail transport) A room in a signal box, usually at ground level beneath the operating room, containing the interlocking mechanism for signals and points (track switches) below the lever frame in the operating room.


(automotive) A motor vehicle fuel blend of 15% gasoline/petrol and 85% ethanol used in flex-fuel-rated vehicles


grand tourer

(automotive) A kind of sports car designed for high speeds and long distances, combining performance and luxury attributes.


scissors crossing

scissors crossing (plural scissors crossings)

Meantime, alterations at King William Street had become imperative, and by December 22, 1895, the station had been remodelled, as at Stockwell, to provide an island platform with lines each side, and a scissors crossing.

1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 224:

At Newton Abbot, in addition to the four platform roads, there are two outside through roads. Halfway along the platforms there are scissors crossings between each through road and the adjacent platform road.

1953 February, Norman Crump, “Aller Junction Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:

scissors crossover
scissors crossover#English

(rail transport) Synonym of scissors crossover.


DDG

guided-missile destroyer
guided-missile destroyer#English

(military, nautical) Initialism of guided-missile destroyer.


TEE

Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees / Leave Paris in the morning with T-E-E

1977, “Trans-Europe Express”, in Trans-Europe Express, performed by Kraftwerk:

Trans Europ Express
w:Trans Europ Express

(rail transport, historical) Initialism of Trans Europ Express.


nonrailroader

Instead, the approach would be to discredit the value of paradigm learning from experience, and embrace new ideas from nonrailroaders. The idea was that these new folks' thinking wouldn't be “polluted” by railroad experiences.

2011, Charles F. Mori, In Between the Rails, page 118:

(rail transport) One who is not a railroader.


perway

(rail transport, Australia) Synonym of permanent way


destroke

en-verb

destroke (third-person singular simple present destrokes, present participle destroking, simple past and past participle destroked)

destrokes (present singular third-person)
destroking (participle present)
destroked (participle past)
destroked (past)

(automotive, transitive) To reduce or shorten the stroke of (an engine).


waterdrome

Blend of water + aerodrome. May be analyzed as water + -drome.

(nautical, aviation) A facility for landing and launching aircraft, where the runway is the surface of a body of water.


jockey box

(dialectal, Northwestern US, especially Idaho and Oregon, automotive) A glove compartment.


black gang

(nautical) A group of workers who fed the furnaces of a coal-powered steamship or other vessel.


hammock netting

en-noun

hammock netting (countable and uncountable, plural hammock nettings)

(nautical) A net, or later (by extension) a box or trough, for stowing hammocks.


wheelslide

wheelslide (countable and uncountable, plural wheelslides)

Andrew Hall, deputy chief inspector at the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, said: "The evidence suggests the most likely cause of this was wheelslide, almost certainly as a result of low adhesion between the wheels and the track."

2021 November 17, Paul Clifton, “Network News: "Slippery rails" cause train collision at Salisbury”, in RAIL, number 944, page 7:

(rail transport) A condition caused when railway vehicle wheels lose adhesion when the brakes are applied, due to slippery rails, and the train slides along the track instead of slowing down.


drive-by-wire

(automotive) The use of electrical or electromechanical systems to perform vehicle functions traditionally achieved by mechanical linkages.


Flemish coil

/ˌflɛmɪʃ ˈkɔɪl/

From Flemish (“of or relating to Flanders”) + coil, the fact that the technique of coiling rope in this manner began with sailors from Flanders.

compound

(nautical) A rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil.


LEV

(automotive) Abbreviation of low-emissions vehicle.


phantom jam

(automotive) A slowdown in traffic that occurs without an apparent reason.

(automotive) A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion.


trailer car

Of the trailer cars, one is a 64-seater open second, with two lavatories; the other is the buffet car, with three first class compartments and a first class lavatory of larger dimensions than the others throughout the train.

1960 September, “Inter-city diesel units for the Hull-Liverpool service of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 560:

diesel multiple unit
diesel multiple unit

electric multiple unit
electric multiple unit

(rail transport) An unpowered car / coach / carriage included in the formation of a diesel multiple unit or an electric multiple unit.


stem for stem

(nautical, obsolete, of ships) Side by side so that both ships’ prows or stems are even with one another, abreast.


give the stem

en-verb

give the stem (third-person singular simple present gives the stem, present participle giving the stem, simple past gave the stem, past participle given the stem)

gives the stem (present singular third-person)
giving the stem (participle present)
gave the stem (past)
given the stem (participle past)

(transitive, nautical, obsolete) To ram with a ship.


self-drive

self-drive (third-person singular simple present self-drives, present participle self-driving, simple past self-drove, past participle self-driven)

self-drives (present singular third-person)
self-driving (participle present)
self-drove (past)
self-driven (participle past)

From self- + drive,
as a back-formation from self-driving.

Motorists could legally allow their cars to “self-drive” on British motorways later this year – but only slowly, the government has announced.

2021 April 27, Gwyn Topham, “‘Self-driving’ cars could get green light for use on UK motorways this year”, in The Guardian:

By self-driving vehicles, we mean those listed as automated vehicles by the Secretary of State for Transport under the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018. (...) These vehicles are capable of safely driving themselves when the self-driving function is correctly turned on and the driver follows the manufacturer’s instructions.

2022 December 31, “The Highway Code 2022 valid 2023, UK, page 4”, in The Highway Code 2022 valid 2023, UK, page 4:

(automotive, intransitive) To drive autonomously; (of a motor vehicle) to drive itself without a human operator, by means of sensors and computer technology.


security distance

en-noun

security distance (plural security distances)

(automotive) The amount of space required between two vehicles on a roadway in order to maintain a safe following distance.


overtrack

Relics of the old GWR broad gauge are rare on the national network. This overtrack canopy was one such, so the decision by the C&WR to retrieve it after electrification necessitated its demolition was a brave one, because its condition by then was parlous.

2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Chairman's Special Award: Cholsey & Wallingford Railway”, in RAIL, number 946, page 54:

(rail transport) Over and above a railway track.


light vehicle

(automotive) A vehicle designed to carry small loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially set weight or number, such as a car, van, motorbike, scooter, etc.


heavy vehicle

(automotive) A vehicle designed to carry large loads or a high number of passengers beyond an officially set weight or number, such as a semitrailer, bus or coach, vehicle carrier, livestock transport, road train, etc.


VDA

Initialism of Verband der Automobilindustrie (literally “German Association of the Automotive Industry”)

initialism

There's enough space for five passengers and 461 litres (VDA) of cargo space[.]

2021 December 12, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 55, column 2:

(automotive) A standard for measuring the capacity of a car's boot or trunk.


MDOT

(US, transport) Acronym of Maryland Department of Transportation.

(US, transport) Acronym of Michigan Department of Transportation.

(US, transport) Acronym of Mississippi Department of Transportation.

(US, transport) Misspelling of MaineDOT. (Maine) (department of transportation)

(US, transport) Misspelling of MnDOT. (Minnesota) (department of transportation)

MnDOT

(US, transport) Misspelling of MoDOT. (Missouri) (department of transportation)


centercab

(rail transport) A diesel or electric locomotive designed with its driving cab in the middle, between its two ends.


helper grade

On February 5-6, 1960, this westbound train made its run in 25 hr. 40 min. despite falling temperatures, fog, rain, sleet and snow; a 1 in 54 helper grade to the summit of the Alleghenies; and a load of 55 cars carrying 100 trailers for a gross tonnage of 3,856 tons.

1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:

(rail transport, US) A railroad gradient where helper locomotives are required to assist the train locomotives.


carbuilder

At least three companies (including two carbuilders) lease the latest piggyback cars to individual railroads, which enables the carriers to escape a capital investment or obligation for debt service.

1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 687:

(rail transport, US) A manufacturer of railroad cars.


fog signal

The layman does not realise the dreadful nightmare of running in fog, especially at night, when the safety of everyone depends on the driver hearing the fog signal detonate.

1943 November and December, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 344:

The last train—a three-coach A.E.C. unit—from Belfast to Crumlin and back, was bade farewell with fog signals as it carried a capacity crowd of last-trip travellers.

1960 November, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 691:

(rail transport, UK) A small explosive charge (detonator) which can be placed on a railway line in fog, to be detonated by a train passing over it as a warning signal to the driver.


longblock

(automotive) Alternative form of long block


shortblock

(automotive) Alternative form of short block


long block

From the larger size of the engine block assembly compared to a short block.

(automotive) An engine subassembly that consists of the assembled short block, plus the crankshaft, cylinder head, camshaft (usually), and valve train.


crate engine

From the crates in which such engines are shipped to the installer.

(automotive) a new, fully-assembled automobile engine that is shipped to the installer


big block

From the larger size of the engine block compared to a small block engine.

(automotive, of an engine) Having or characterised by a large, heavy and powerful engine block.


small block

From the smaller size of the engine block compared to a big block engine.

(automotive, of an engine) having or characterised by a relatively small and lighter engine block


short block

From the smaller size of the engine block assembly compared to a long block.

(automotive) An engine subassembly comprising the portion of the cylinder block below the cylinder head gasket but above the oil pan (and including neither).


crate motor

From the crates in which the motors are shipped in.

(automotive) Synonym of crate engine: An assembled, new fresh motor, shipped from the builder.


batchy

[…] two of them [the crew] were now temporarily incapable of either good or harm. They had gone quite “batchy” with fright, requiring a not too gentle application of the tiller to their heads in order to keep them quiet.

1898, Frank T. Bullen, chapter 5, in The Cruise of the “Cachalot,”, London: Smith, Elder, page 39:

“Does that mean we have to go out in those small boats?” he asked of Sherwood […].
“Nothing less! But buck up, old man, and don’t go batchy, as these whalers call it!”

1925, Patrick Casey, chapter 10, in Sea Plunder, Boston: Small, Maynard, pages 68–69:

He’d seen a great deal older and more seasoned men than that lot go batchy through fatigue or some inexplicable, inner nervous flaw.

1958, Robert Carse, chapter 6, in Great Circle,, New York: Bantam, page 73:

(nautical, slang, obsolete) Experiencing a loss of courage and self-control.


return fare

To coincide with the launch, LNER has introduced fixed-price all-in-one return fares for two adults and up to four children, priced at £129 between London, Thornaby and London.

2021 December 29, “Network News: LNER launches King's Cross-Middlesbrough direct service”, in RAIL, number 947, page 12:

(travel) A fare charged for a two-way journey, to one's destination and back to the starting point.


sea link

However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, to save hauliers from custom's bureaucracy of driving via Britain.

2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25:

(shipping) A regular connection between two (or more) ports, such as that provided by a ferry service.


platelaying

(rail transport) The work of a platelayer, inspecting and maintaining the permanent way.


unrebuildable

en-adj

unrebuildable (comparative more unrebuildable, superlative most unrebuildable)

more unrebuildable (comparative)
most unrebuildable (superlative)

A Kentucky salvage certificate of title may be issued from an out-of-state junking certificate or other ownership document bearing a designation of "junk," "unrebuildable,” or other similar classification that disqualifies the vehicle from being titled for use on the highway in that state with the following provisions:

1969, Absalom Crosem Russell, Ray Corns, Baldwin's Kentucky Revised Statutes, with Rules of Practice, page 45:

Just as far as when a vehicle is determined unrebuildable and salvage, basically it is good for parts only.

2006, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Car Title Fraud, page 134:

These are the same vehicles that are not allowed on the road in the U.. but they bring the cars here and fix them back to about 85% of their original state. The U.S. calls these vehicles salvage vehicles and unrebuildable title cars and they can only be shipped out of the country or used for parts.

2011, Julian Pedican, Progress: Answers and Solutions for a More Progressive Bahamas, page 47:

(law, automotive) Unable to be made roadworthy; legally usable for parts or scrap only.


track magnet

Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.

1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording electric operation”, in Trains Illustrated, page 707:

(rail transport) A magnet incorporated in railway track for various purposes.


upper deck

(nautical) The topmost full-length deck of a ship.


steam age

The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.

1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:

(rail transport) The time when trains were powered by steam locomotives.


monkey forecastle

en-noun

monkey forecastle (plural monkey forecastles)

(nautical) A small, low forecastle, with an open aft, and used for stowage.


hourly rating

The year 1926 saw the putting in service of the first of the magnificent 1-Co-Co-1 locomotives of Type Ae 6/8, which at the time of their construction, with their hourly rating of 4,500 h.p., were the most powerful single electric locomotive units in the world.

1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:

(electrical engineering, rail transport) A measure of the maximum output, usually expressed in horsepower, that can be obtained from the motors of an electric locomotive for a period of one hour without the motors overheating.


coaling plant

Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.

1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:

The final stages will be the demolition next year of the remaining part of of the steam Jubilee Shed and the removal of the great, unroofed coaling plant nearby (said to be the oldest in the country); the turntable is also to disappear.

1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:

(rail transport, dated) A tall structure provided at a locomotive depot to supply coal to steam locomotives.


unreef

en-verb

unreef (third-person singular simple present unreefs, present participle unreefing, simple past and past participle unreefed)

unreefs (present singular third-person)
unreefing (participle present)
unreefed (participle past)
unreefed (past)

(nautical, transitive) To release (a sail that was previously reefed, or taken in).


MARPOL

(shipping, international law) The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships.


(UK, rail transport) Initialism of High Speed 2, a branched high-speed railway under construction between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Wigan.


AETR

(road transport, international law) The European arrangement in regard to the work of driving personnel engaged in international traffic.


non-gangwayed

[...] and the introduction of standard train formations with the elimination of all trains made up of unrostered or non-gangwayed stock.

1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 17–18:

The arrival of the first Class 313 was a jaw-dropper for long-suffering commuters used to non-gangwayed Class 31 locomotive-hauled rakes of 1950s slam-door coaches, […].

2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:

(rail transport, British) Not provided with a gangway between carriages.


en-noun

V2H (countable and uncountable, plural V2Hs)

From vehicle to home technology, technology for battery electric vehicles to provide battery backup power to homes.

(countable and uncountable, automotive, power grid) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-home technology.

(countable, automotive, power grid) Abbreviation of vehicle-to-home unit.


(automotive, power grid) Initialism of vehicle-to-home.


HMB

It has taken 22 years for experts to prove His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour, renamed Lord Sandwich, was one of 13 ships sunk in Newport Harbour in 1778.

2022, Charis Chang, “How did the HMB Endeavour end up near the coast of Rhode Island in the United States?”, in news.com.a (Usenet):

(initialism, nautical, military, UK, historical) His/Her Majesty's Bark


beam-on

Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.

2015, Duncan Bruce, Tanker Jetty Safety – Management of the Ship/Shore Interface (1st 2015 ed; second ed. January 2022), 1st edition, Witherby Seamanship International, →ISBN, 3.1.2:

"The jetski slewed around and hit the buoy beam-on. A bystander on the dock hastily threw a lifeline, which flew over the swimming jetskier's head and hit our boat beam-on, tangling itself in the shrouds."

(nautical) Coming from a point abeam (neither directly ahead/head-on, nor well before the beam, nor directly astern, nor well abaft the beam/quartering); said of waves or any object moving relative to the vessel.


AVGP

armoured vehicle
armoured vehicle#English

(military, automotive) Abbreviation of armoured vehicle, general purpose.


covered wagon

(transport, historical) A wagon with a frame (typically arched) over which a canvas cover is fixed.

The advantages of the train ferry in combining through running (without double handling) with speed and relatively large loads are shown in the decision of the Swedish State Railways to build 100 large covered and 50 open wagons for working to Britain by the ferry services, although the route from Sweden to any destination in the U.K. via Zeebrugge/Harwich is comparatively circuitous; the first of the Swedish covered wagons has already run through to London.

1962 February, “Talking of Trains: British-owned ferry wagons”, in Modern Railways, page 83:

(rail transport, British) A covered goods wagon.


mis-shunt

Consequently, the coupler must be designed so that no undue damage is caused should a mis-shunt take place.

1962 February, G. Richard Parkes, “Automatic couplers in Britain and Europe”, in Modern Railways, page 131:

(rail transport, British) An incorrectly made shunting operation, possibly causing a mishap.


curb extension

(traffic engineering) A traffic calming measure that widens the sidewalk for a short distance.


hydroflight

(nautical, aviation) A method of tethered flight using an umbilicus to provide power and reaction mass via a hydrojet supplied from a surface pump on a body of water.


autoalarm

(nautical, radio) An automatic radio receiver on a ship, for picking up distress calls.


bunker fuel

bunker fuel (usually uncountable, plural bunker fuels)

(mechanical engineering, petrochemistry, maritime) A type of extremely viscous, heavy fuel oil primarily used by large oceangoing ships.


bunker oil

bunker oil (usually uncountable, plural bunker oils)

(mechanical engineering, petrochemistry, maritime) Synonym of bunker fuel.


dead section

A new glass fibre insulating section will ultimately equip all neutral sections, simplifying maintenance work and greatly reducing the length of dead sections.

1962 March, “Talking of Trains: The future of B.R. a.c. traction”, in Modern Railways, page 148:

(rail transport, electrical engineering) Part of a neutral section.


front wing

(automotive) Part at the front of a Formula 1 car which deflects the turbulent air that is generated on the sides of the wheels so that it does not disturb the rest of the car.


suck, squeeze, bang, blow

From the action of each stroke of the 4-stroke Otto cycle. The intake stroke, compression stroke, power stroke, exhaust stroke.

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine#English

(automotive, engineering) A reference to the Otto cycle and four-stroke internal combustion engines.


ROW

(travel, video games, digital rights management) Initialism of rest of world.


ÖBB

(rail transport) Austrian Federal Railways (Österreichische Bundesbahnen).


Aton

(nautical) Alternative letter-case form of AtoN


dandy cart

Three examples of the dandy cart in which horses descended inclines at the rear of gravity-operated trains.

1942 March, “The Dandy Cart”, in Railway Magazine, page 86, image caption:

(rail transport, historical) A wagon in which a horse could rest and travel downhill on a gravity-worked railway, before hauling wagons back up the incline.


Viking ship

(historical, nautical) A marine vessel of unique structure, used in Scandinavia from the Viking Age through the Middle Ages, and generally slender and flexible boats, with symmetrical ends with true keel.


stub axle

The axles of the Talgo section are U-shaped and the ends form stub-axles on which the wheels revolve freely and independently.

1962 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Talgo trains of Spain”, in Modern Railways, page 177:

(automotive, mechanical engineering) An axle supporting only one wheel of a pair on opposite sides of a vehicle.


surface combatant

surface combatant (plural surface combatants)

(nautical, military) A warship that floats on the surface of the ocean, as opposed to a submarine. Aircraft carriers are also generally excluded.


through station

through station (plural through stations)

That is according to a leading academic who has told MPs to heed the lessons from Germany where terminus stations, like those planned on the route of HS2 in Birmingham and Manchester, are currently being replaced by higher-capacity and more operationally efficient through-stations.

2022 March 23, Paul Stephen, “IRP adherence risks repeating other countries' mistakes”, in RAIL, number 953, page 20:

(rail transport) Any railway station having one or more tracks running through it, and that is not built as a terminus where trains can go no further without changing direction.


(automotive) A grade of hydrogen (“H”) refuelling capacity, comprising hydrogen delivery at 10,000 psi / 70 MPa


(automotive) A grade of hydrogen (“H”) refuelling capacity, comprising hydrogen delivery at 5000 psi / 35 MPa


forced induction

(mechanical engineering, automotive, aviation) The process of blowing compressed air into the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine to increase the compression ratio and power of the engine, typically by using a turbocharger or supercharger.


PBV

PBV (countable and uncountable, plural PBVs)

(automotive) Abbreviation of purpose-built vehicle.


unbrail

en-verb

unbrail (third-person singular simple present unbrails, present participle unbrailing, simple past and past participle unbrailed)

unbrails (present singular third-person)
unbrailing (participle present)
unbrailed (participle past)
unbrailed (past)

(nautical) To undo the brailing of a sail.


treble-heading

Treble-heading was again recorded on the Highland line on September 2 when the 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. from Inverness both passed Pitlochry with three Type 2 diesels.

1962 November, “Motive power miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways, page 354:

(rail transport) The use of three locomotives at the front, or head, of a train.


haul out

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

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

It is mostly the way to man the clue-lines and the bunt-lines, to ease off the lee-sheet and clue it up; then man the weather-brace, let go the lee-brace and bunt-lines at the same time; when the sail is spilled, haul out the reef-tackles, and reef as before.

1800, John Hamilton Moore, The New Practical Navigator:

Haul up and spill the sail, as if you were going to furl it, then haul out the reef-tackles and reef it.

1871, Thomas Liddell Ainsley, A Guide Book to the Local Marine Board Examination, page 297:

When the yard is down, but not before, haul out the reeftackles, and haul taut the buntlines — the yard will brace in easier if the ship is luffed to make the weather leach of the sail lift.

1876, George Strong Nares, Seamanship: Including Names of Principal Parts of a Ship, page 202:

Hoist Away, Haul Out! taking in the slack of the outhaul and inner halliards. When halfway up between the deck and lower yard, haul out the squilgee, and as the sail falls, haul out on the outhaul, and hoist the sail up taut to the topmast studding-sail boom; then haul out the outhaul and pull up on the inner halliards.

1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship, page 407:

(nautical) To pull on an outhaul in order to extend (a sail) along a spar, or to pull on a reef-tackle to reef (a sail).

She may then steer by the eye, keeping about three times as far off the islet Chapany, as from the shore, until all the islands be in one, she will then be in the narrowest part of the channel; she must then haul out to the westward, so as to get midchannel between the shores of Zanzibar and Chapany, when the latter bears N.W.b.N. (true).

1844, The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, page 275:

If stop-off point is not on the direct run, a charge of 1 cent per ton per mile (minimum 20 miles) for haul out of direct run will be made in addition to stop-off charge, except that such charge will not be made between Sudbury Junction and Sudbury, Ont., on lumber for dressing at Sudbury, Ont., and reshipment to points south of Sudbury Junction, Ont.

1934, Report of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada, page 181:

They led me into less than 3 fathoms water and a very narrow Channel formed by Isles, that led into a deep Bight; and as I went in with a large wind, and not having room to haul out either way, or even bring the Ship's head to, to the wind, I was obliged to let go the anchor all Standing, and send my Boat to sound the Passage out.

1940, James Colnett, The Journal of Captain James Colnett, page 245:

(nautical) To turn sharply in order to deviate from the current heading or course.

They managed to haul out their motorboat by paying a local to drag it ashore with a line hitched to a truck.

A small marine railway at Fleming Landing can haul out boats up to 35 feet in length.

1953, United States Coast Pilot, page 32:

That is why, wherever there is a threat of ice forming, mariners haul out their boats, if they possibly can, or escape the threat.

1988, Tristan Jones, The Improbable Voyage of the Yacht Outward Leg Into, Through, and Out of the Heart of Europe, page 64:

Boats of all sizes have to be hauled out for maintenance sooner or later.

(nautical) To pull a boat out of the water; (by extension, loosely) to drydock a ship.


twingle

(automotive) A four-stroke twin-cylinder engine with an altered firing order designed to give power pulses similar to a single-cylinder four-stroke engine.


unwhip

unwhip (third-person singular simple present unwhips, present participle unwhipping, simple past and past participle unwhipped)

unwhips (present singular third-person)
unwhipping (participle present)
unwhipped (participle past)
unwhipped (past)

(transitive, nautical) To unbind the end of a rope that was previously whipped or bound up to prevent its unlaying.

(intransitive, nautical) To become unbound in this way.


untrice

untrice (third-person singular simple present untrices, present participle untricing, simple past and past participle untriced)

untrices (present singular third-person)
untricing (participle present)
untriced (participle past)
untriced (past)

Then ordering the boy of the mess to untrice his hammock, and staggering towards it, after several attempts he succeeded in springing into it from a chest, […]

1847, John Ross Dix, Jack Ariel, Or, Life on Board an Indiaman, volume 1, page 83:

I walked forward and untriced the bowsprit dolphin-striker, to get ready for sailing.

1996, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, page 249:

(transitive, nautical) To release something previously triced, i.e., hoisted and tied up.


antipooling

(US, historical, railways) Opposing or banning associations of rival railroads.


LVW

(automotive) Abbreviation of loaded vehicle weight.

(automotive, military, nautical) Abbreviation of landing vehicle, wheeled. (amphibious truck)


PUV

(Philippines, road transport)
Initialism of public utility vehicle.

public utility vehicle
public utility vehicle#English

(Philippines, road transport)
Initialism of public utility van.

public utility van
public utility van#English


petrol cap

(automotive) The cap that closes a petrol tank and may be opened to refill it.


FV

(maritime, nautical, fishing) Initialism of fishing vessel. (also a ship prefix)


R.V.

(nautical) Initialism of research vessel.

Alternative form of RV
Initialism of research vessel.

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle#English

(automotive) Initialism of recreational vehicle.

Alternative form of RV
Initialism of recreational vehicle.


IAC

en-noun

IAC (countable and uncountable, plural IACs)

idle air controller
w:idle air controller

(automotive engineering) Initialism of idle air controller.


superfiring

(military, nautical, of a gun turret on a warship) Mounted higher than one or more other turrets within its firing arc, allowing it to fire over the top of the lower-mounted turret(s).


V-berth

(nautical) An approximately V-shaped berth at the extreme forward end of the hull, usually in a separate cabin called the forepeak.


differential steering

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(automotive, mechanical engineering) Steering by means of driving the wheels or treads on one side of a vehicle faster than those on the other side, or driving the wheels or treads on one side in the forward and on the other side in the reverse direction.


dynamic brake

The sloping topography of the site also allows regenerative braking to charge the batteries as the locomotives run downhill towards the exchange sidings. Around 80% of braking is done by the electric dynamic brake, rather than traditional tread brakes. However, all the hard work is done heading uphill with loaded flask trains.

2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 22:

(rail transport) A mechanism for performing dynamic braking.


raise steam

en-verb

raise steam (third-person singular simple present raises steam, present participle raising steam, simple past and past participle raised steam)

raises steam (present singular third-person)
raising steam (participle present)
raised steam (participle past)
raised steam (past)

[…] the fireman has to divide his time between getting up into the bunker to throw more turfs into the cab, and getting down on his hands and knees to get it into the firebox, and even then a reserve supply of turf must be carried on a truck behind the engine, and stops must be made on each steep ascent to raise more steam.

1945 January and February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Firing with Turf”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:

(engineering, nautical, rail transport) To build up a useful head (pressure level) of steam in a steam-engined vehicle's boiler.


neutral area

(US, road transport) Triangular area of road surface adjacent to the gore at a fork or merge, set off by painted lines and optionally covered in chevron markings.


TATA

Tatanagar Junction railway station
w:Tatanagar Junction railway station

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


traybody

They were re-engined and modified as required, then had either turntables attached for semis or else traybodies fitted and some trailers tacked on.

2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 47:

(Australia, automotive) The flat bed of a truck on which goods are loaded.


hambroline

en-noun

hambroline (countable and uncountable, plural hambrolines)

(nautical) A three-stranded tarred hemp cord.


CHG

Chinchpokli railway station
w:Chinchpokli railway station

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


cross someone's T

en-verb

cross someone's T (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's T, present participle crossing someone's T, simple past and past participle crossed someone's T)

crosses someone's T (present singular third-person)
crossing someone's T (participle present)
crossed someone's T (participle past)
crossed someone's T (past)

From the shape formed by the opposing battle lines, which resembles a capital letter T.

No sooner has the fleet settled onto this course than a small group of Japanese cruisers and actual, real, live, all-singing, all-dancing, all-features-included, protected-by-the-Emperor torpedo boats begin to move to cross the T of the Russian fleet. Worried about a torpedo attack on his lead battleships and determined to sweep this small formation aside, Rozhestvensky orders his main ships into a line abreast, a far-more-potent display of force that allows every forward-pointing gun on his capital ships to bear at the same time.

2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 12:24 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

(military, nautical) To sail one's battle line across the front of the enemy battle line, allowing one to bring one's full firepower to bear on the enemy battle line while limiting the firepower that the enemy can use in return.


downflood

downflood (third-person singular simple present downfloods, present participle downflooding, simple past and past participle downflooded)

downfloods (present singular third-person)
downflooding (participle present)
downflooded (participle past)
downflooded (past)

Once seawater flowed down (downflooded) to the fourth deck through the ventilation trunks and their unsecured (open) closures, the vessel would have sunk deeper because of the weight of the added water and rolled more easily as it lost its residual righting arm.

2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.4.2 Flooding”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, page 194:

(nautical, of water or other liquid) To enter a boat, ship, or other vessel through openings that are normally above the waterline.


downflooding angle

en-noun

downflooding angle (plural downflooding angles)

Figure 60 shows the downflooding angles for the downflooding points described above, plus the angle at which the edge of the freeboard deck would have been immersed (about 15°). The downflooding angles are superimposed on two righting arm curves. The upper curve is the righting arm for El Faro in the intact condition on the morning of the sinking, before flooding began and with no wind. The lower curve is the righting arm for the vessel with hold 3 flooded to 20 percent and a sustained 80-knot beam wind.

2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.10 Postaccident Analysis of Stability, Structures, and Sinking”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, page 156:

(nautical) The minimum bank angle which will submerge at least one non-watertight opening on a boat, ship, or other vessel, allowing for downflooding into the interior of the vessel.


downflooding point

downflooding point (plural downflooding points)

The El Faro stability booklet did not identify the cargo hold ventilation trunk openings as potential downflooding points, nor did it indicate that they should be closed to prevent downflooding. None of the former officers or crew of El Faro remembered the dampers being closed at sea (even for expected heavy weather), except when they were periodically tested. When asked what a captain should have done if faced with the risk of fire or flooding, an ABS representative stated that the captain would have to "trade off one risk against another risk and maintain certain weathertight integrity while not compromising or not reintroducing some other risk."

2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.4 Methods of Assessing Stability”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, pages 138-139:

(nautical) An opening above the waterline of a boat, ship, or other vessel through which water or other liquid can enter if the vessel rolls to an excessive angle or rides lower than normally.


righting arm

Figure 60 shows the downflooding angles for the downflooding points described above, plus the angle at which the edge of the freeboard deck would have been immersed (about 15°). The downflooding angles are superimposed on two righting arm curves. The upper curve is the righting arm for El Faro in the intact condition on the morning of the sinking, before flooding began and with no wind. The lower curve is the righting arm for the vessel with hold 3 flooded to 20 percent and a sustained 80-knot beam wind. The smaller area under the lower righting arm curve, compared with the area under the upper curve, illustrates the severely reduced energy the vessel had available to right itself after hold 3 flooded and the ship lost power, with hurricane winds on its beam (blowing at a 90° angle to its starboard side).

(nautical, physics) The horizontal distance between the center of mass of a tilted vessel and the vertical line connecting its center of buoyancy and its metacentre (conventionally taken as positive if the aforementioned line lies on the low side of the center of mass, and negative if the line lies on the high side of the center of mass), measuring the strength of the vessel's tendency (or lack thereof) to return to an upright orientation.


metacentric height

metacentric height (plural metacentric heights)

The distance from a ship's center of gravity (G) to its metacenter is known as the metacentric height (GM). GM is a measure of the vessel's ability to right itself when experiencing an overturning moment. For the same vessel, a higher GM value indicates a greater initial static stability.

2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12 Stability Information - 1.12.1 Concepts”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, page 132:

(nautical, physics) The vertical distance between the metacentre and center of mass (conventionally taken to be positive when the metacentre is above the center of mass, and negative when the center of mass is above the metacentre) of a vessel (such as a ship or a boat) when the vessel is upright with zero bank angle; measures the vessel's tendency to resist being rolled from the upright orientation; must be positive in order for the vessel to have positive static stability.


downflooding

The tops of the baffle plates installed to limit water from entering holds 3 and 2A through the fire dampers, which were about 25 to 26 feet above the accident voyage still waterline, were found after loss of propulsion to submerge at heeling angles of 26° to 29°, with only hold 3 flooded to 20 percent at 0.7 permeability. No damage control plan or emergency plan was found that might recommend securing the fire dampers in extremely high seas to prevent potential downflooding through ventilation openings into cargo holds.

2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.10 Postaccident Analysis of Stability, Structures, and Sinking”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, page 155:

(nautical) The entry of water or other liquid into a boat, ship, or other vessel through openings that are normally above the waterline.


HMNB

(UK, nautical, military) Initialism of Her (or His) Majesty's Naval Base; prefix used in the names of naval bases of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.


mainboom

(nautical) The boom (spar) of the mainsail.


sofar channel

(hydrology, physics, nautical) The depth in the oceans, usually around 750 m below the surface, where the speed of sound is the lowest, causing it to transmit sound waves generated within this channel for long distances with little attenuation by acting as a waveguide.


sofar bomb

(nautical, military) A device (usually an imploding metal sphere or an explosive charge fuzed to explode at depth) which sinks in the ocean and creates a loud, low-frequency sound when it enters the sofar channel; used to determine the location of sunken vessels.


rose box

(nautical) A perforated box attached to the input pipe of a bilge pump, to trap any solid material that might otherwise clog the pump.


Chopper

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 20 locomotive.


Warship

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 41 locomotive, dating from the late 1950s.


Bagpipe

In allusion to the subclass' jumper cables, which were installed on both ends to allow push-pull operation.

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 33/1 locomotive.


Baby Deltic

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 23 locomotive.


Teddy Bear

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 14 locomotive.


Baby Warship

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 22 locomotive.


Slim Jim

In allusion to the subclass being 7 inches narrower, due to being constructed for use on the gauge-restricted Hastings line.

(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 33/2 locomotive.


gauge-restricted

en-adj

gauge-restricted (not generally comparable, comparative more gauge-restricted, superlative most gauge-restricted)

more gauge-restricted (comparative)
most gauge-restricted (superlative)

a gauge-restricted line

(rail transport, UK) Having a restrictive loading gauge, limiting which rail vehicles may be used.


metre-gauge

Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.

1960 December, 'Voyageur', “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:

(rail transport) Built as or for metre gauge.


heavy frigate

(nautical) A type of frigate, characterised by its heavy armament.


LASH

(nautical) Acronym of lighter-aboard-ship.


super-heavy frigate

en-noun

super-heavy frigate (plural super-heavy frigates)

(nautical) A type of frigate, characterised by its very heavy armament.


fourth-rate

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.


fourth-rate

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line.


twin-masted

1 But the typical Indonesian twin-masted square-sail rig is indeed in evidence in West Africa. Picture 33 shows such a craft - a model made in Ghana.

1964, Africa and Indonesia the Evidence of the Xylophone and Other Musical and Cultural Factors, Brill Archive, page 191:

The most daring was that of Team Philips, the twin-masted cat skippered by Pete Goss. The boat was fast but simply not strong enough to resist the battering she received from an Atlantic storm during pre-race sea trials.

2009 October 27, Miles Kendall, Ultimate Sailing Adventures: 100 Extraordinary Experiences on the Water, Fernhurst Books Limited, →ISBN:

Smaller cruisers bore a variety of rigs, mostly fore-and-aft in character, such as the single-masted cutter, the twin-masted schooner, or the two- or three-masted lugger.

2014 February 28, Richard Woodman, The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson, Seaforth Publishing, →ISBN, page 348:


double-masted

Some years ago all the owners of racing schooners were up in arms against the Wildfire, and declared she was not one, but a double-masted cutter, or some such thing, and not a fair vessel to sail in their races, merely because she had a running bowsprit and cutter’s stem.

1866, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, page 110:

In the tomb of a noble called Abibi, also of the IVth dynasty, there is a scene in which men are in the act of lowering the double mast (Fig. 44), and what is probably a double-masted ship under sail is found in the tomb-sculpture of a IVth dynasty noble called Ipi (Fig. 45).

1990, Somers Clarke, Reginald Engelbach, Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 43:

to the 1st to 2nd century AD.19 A double-masted Satavahana ship has also been found on a seal from the Bengal Bay area (Pargadas), dated to the 2nd century AD; this oval seal is now in the National Museum of Kolkata.

2016 June 22, Ahmed Abushouk, Mahjoob Zweiri, Interdisciplinarity in World History: Continuity and Change, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 157:


triple-masted

[…] E'en now
He gnaws with keen exasperated tooth
The rock that holds him shorebound to his seat,
Buffets the pier and basis of the cliff,
Seizes the tilting triple-masted bark,
Light as a feather in his pow'rful grasp,
Kindles her sleeping thunder, and enjoys
Her frequent flashes of nocturnal woe.
[…]

1800, The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged: From September to December, inclusive, M,DCCC. With an Appendix., volume XXXIII, page 284:

Just off the coast, to the right, a fine triple-masted Dutch cog of the sixteenth century heads for the open sea, its fore and aft sails already unfurled. The sailors are visible in the rigging, about to unfurl the remaining sails.

2010 October 19, Piero Boitani, Professor of Comparative Literature Piero Boitani, Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 251:

If they had looked a little harder, the couple would have seen a square-rig, triple-masted clipper go by that was built in the nineteenth century. Nobody sails these kinds ofvessels anymore.

2013 July 1, Gerry Burke, Paddy’s People: Tales of Life, Love, Laughter, and Smelly Horses, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 46:


sixth-rate

The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.

2023, David Grann, chapter 1, in The Wager, Doubleday:

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.


sixth-rate

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A sixth-rate warship.


single-masted

The yacht club burgee may be displayed between morning and evening colors, at anchor, made-fast or under way, by (a) Mastless yachts or single-masted yachts with bow staff, at the bow staff, (b) single-masted yachts without bow[…]

1949 07, “Motorboating - ND”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 111:

Until the 15th century even the largest ships were single-masted. After experimentation with double-masted ships a standard three-masted rig was settled on by most shipwrights.

2006, Cathal J. Nolan, The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 581:

Painting of small single-masted craft and extracted outline. In other respects, the vessel seems to resemble Boat 1, but with extra detail. We see here also the inclusion of the bow sprit or bob stay chain.

2008 June 1, Geoffrey Richard Clark, Sue O'Connor, Bryan Foss Leach, Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes, ANU E Press, →ISBN, page 405:


fifth-rate

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.


fifth-rate

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.


track gauge

(rail transport) The specified distance between the rails of a railway.


middlemast

(nautical) The mast between the mainmast and mizzenmast on a ship having five or more masts.


spankermast

(nautical) The aftmost mast on a schooner.


full-rigged

(nautical) Of a sailing ship, having at least three square-rigged masts, each mast being in at least three segments; having a ship rig sail plan.


fully rigged

(nautical) Alternative form of full-rigged.


SUN

(rail transport) The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.


SKM

(rail transport) The station code of Shek Kip Mei in Hong Kong.


decap

en-verb

decap (third-person singular simple present decaps, present participle decapping, simple past and past participle decapped)

decaps (present singular third-person)
decapping (participle present)
decapped (participle past)
decapped (past)

(military, chiefly nautical) To cause an armor-piercing shell to lose its hardened cap, degrading its ability to penetrate armor.


EWW

Ewell West railway station
w:Ewell West railway station

(rail transport) The station code of Ewell West railway station in Ewell, England.


ship, shipmate, self

(nautical) A person's duty in the navy is first to the ship, then to shipmates, and finally to himself/herself.


dead flat

(nautical) The widest cross-section of a ship.


resort town

(tourism, urban studies) An urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy.


innocent passage

(law, nautical) The passage of civilian vessels through the territorial and archipelagic waters of foreign states without interference, subject to good behavior on the part of the vessels and their crews.


flight controller

en-noun

flight controller (plural flight controllers)

(nautical) The person at the foiling controls to operate the hydrofoils on a boat or ship


From America's Cup + 50, because it measures approximately 50 feet on the waterline.

(sports, nautical) A hydrofoil catamaran sailing racing yacht, with a wingsail mainsail, developed for the 2017 America's Cup.


From foil + 50, from AC50; because it measures approximately 50 feet on the waterline, and uses hydrofoils, and is derived from the AC50 class.

(sports, nautical) A hydrofoil catamaran sailing racing yacht, with a wingsail mainsail.


wing trimmer

(nautical) The person who operates the trimming controls of a wingsail to trim it to fit wind conditions


cat-block

(nautical) A heavy iron-strapped block consisting of a large hook used in catting an anchor.


camber angle

(automotive) One of the angles made by the wheels of a vehicle; specifically, the angle between the vertical axis of a wheel and the vertical axis of the vehicle when viewed from the front or rear.


Flemish eye

(nautical) An eye splice formed by unlaying one strand of a rope's end and laying it up round the eye formed by the other portion of the rope's end.


aftermast

(nautical) A mast located towards the stern of a ship.


seakindly

en-adj

seakindly (comparative more seakindly, superlative most seakindly)

more seakindly (comparative)
most seakindly (superlative)

The hull is stable, fast and seakindly.

1983, Motor Boating & Sailing, volume 151, number 1, page 70:

Willowmere may not be large, but as the winds push her further south she shows herself to be sound and seakindly. The men have been busy lately replacing her old canvas with her strongest sails to prepare her for the great storms […]

(nautical) Easy to sail at sea; having good handling ability in the ocean.


load factor

(transport) The percentage of a transportation system's maximum passenger capacity that is actually used.


wetted area

en-noun

wetted area (usually uncountable, plural wetted areas)

(hydrodynamics) The total surface area of a vehicle which interacts with the fluid through which the vehicle travels.

(nautical) The total portion of the surface area of the hull which is immersed in water.