apeak

From French à pic (“at its summit; vertically”), compare with Italian a picco.

Thus the good we should cherish, the bad never seek, / For death will too soon bring each anchor apeak.

a 1796, Charles Dibdin, "Nautical Philosophy"

I found the New Shoreham with her anchor apeak and, within a quarter of an hour after I reached her, running seven knots an hour, right before the wind.

1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 163

(nautical, of an anchor) In a vertical line, the cable having been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.


unbit

en-verb

unbit (third-person singular simple present unbits, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)

unbits (present singular third-person)
unbitting (participle present)
unbitted (participle past)
unbitted (past)

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(nautical, transitive) To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits.


Thunderbird

The railway sense is derived from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, about a secretive high-tech rescue organization, ultimately from thunderbird.

(UK, rail transport) A locomotive stored at a strategic point on the network so as to be available to quickly rescue a failed train.


gobline

The gobline helps prevent the tug from being tripped or capsized when working on a towline especially if the tug is being towed stern first.

1986, George H. Reid, Shiphandling with Tugs, page 66:

This is not so important if the towline is bowsed to the stern of the tug with a gobline.

1996, Graham Danton, The Theory and Practice of Seamanship:

(nautical) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit.


blown diffuser

(automotive) A diffuser which uses exhaust gases to generate aerodynamic forces.


razee

From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (“to rase, to cut down ships”). See raze and rase (verbs).

an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee

1838, Edmund Fanning, Voyages to the South Seas […] :

(nautical) An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.


razee

razee (third-person singular simple present razees, present participle razeeing, simple past and past participle razeed)

razees (present singular third-person)
razeeing (participle present)
razeed (participle past)
razeed (past)

(transitive, nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.


spoondrift

en-noun

spoondrift (countable and uncountable, plural spoondrifts)

Probably a variant of Scots spindrift. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is derived from spoon + drift (“mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water”), spoon being a variant of spoom (“to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted”), but this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary: see spindrift.

compound

(nautical, archaic) Alternative form of spindrift

Oxford English Dictionary
Scottish National Dictionary


kinematic envelope

en-noun

kinematic envelope (plural kinematic envelopes)

Travers Morgan Railways recognized this fact in 1990 and have developed a computerized technique to derive the true kinematic enveleope for indivdual rolling stock using basic vehicle parameters.

1992, Institution of Civil Engineers, edited by R.A. Vickers, Cost-effective maintenance of railway track: proceedings of the conference Cost-effective maintenance of railway track organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held in London on 25-26 June 1992, →ISBN, Discussion on Papers 3– 5, page 84:

However, in one respect Eurostar did condition the kinematic enveleope of Le Shuttle. […] The smaller Eurostar trains needed a lower step to overcome the height and width differential between the doorway and the walkway. This lower step became a significant element in determining the kinematic enveleope for the Shuttle trains, because of the limited clearance which resulted from its introduction into tunnel design.

1994, Institution of Civil Engineers, edited by Charles Penny, Channel Tunnel transport system: proceedings of the conference organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held in London on 4-5 October 1994, published 1996, →ISBN, Discussion on session 3, page 85:

A publication known as “Design Guide BaSS 501” provided a methodology wherby the kinematic enveleope of a vehicle (the space required by a given vehicle, moving at speed) at a specific location could be manually calculated from a number of input parameters.

2006, Simon Iwnicki, Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics, →ISBN, page 184:

(rail transport) The outline of the space occupied by a rail vehicle when in motion, including the effects of tilt, sway, track cant, etc.


weather-bit

(nautical) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.


Automated Transfer Vehicle

Automated Transfer Vehicle (plural Automated Transfer Vehicles)

(transport, space science) An expendable unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency.


goosewinged

(nautical) Having a goose wing; said of a fore-and-aft sailboat with the foresail set on one side (e.g. starboard) and mainsail on the other (e.g. port), often used when the boat is running (with the wind almost directly at the stern).


spurnwater

(nautical) A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.


slatch

(nautical) The loose part of a rope; slack.


reef-band

The rope passed from below up through a sister-block in the rigging at the topmast-head, thence through the end of the yard to a block in the reef-band of the sail, &c.

1846, “Improvements in Ships”, in Boston Journal:

(nautical) A piece of canvas sewn across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.


voyol

(nautical) The block through which a messenger passes.


wall-sided

en-adj

wall-sided (comparative more wall-sided, superlative most wall-sided)

more wall-sided (comparative)
most wall-sided (superlative)

(nautical) Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.


misstay

en-verb

misstay (third-person singular simple present misstays, present participle misstaying, simple past and past participle misstayed)

misstays (present singular third-person)
misstaying (participle present)
misstayed (participle past)
misstayed (past)

(nautical) To become caught in irons when changing tack.


camber-keeled

en-adj

camber-keeled (comparative more camber-keeled, superlative most camber-keeled)

more camber-keeled (comparative)
most camber-keeled (superlative)

(nautical) Having the keel arched upwards, but not actually hogged.


fardage

Borrowed from French fardage. See fardel.

The next morning at sun rising, Cortez departed with his Army in good order, and in the midst of them went the Fardage and Artillerie

1648, Thomas Gage, A New Survey of the West-Indies:

(nautical, archaic) Scrap material, used to fill space and/or prevent goods from moving about during transport


starbowline

So, so, (thrusts his head down the scuttle,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y! Eight bells there below! Tumble up!

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 40”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

(nautical, obsolete) Any of the men in the starboard watch.


light railway

Under a Light Railway Order of 1904, the line was extended to Appledore, and opened thence on May 1, 1908, bringing the route length up to a fraction over 7 miles. The whole system was worked under this Order as a light railway, but this caused some friction with the local authorities when, under the authority of the Board of Trade, the gates were removed at five level crossings in May, 1905.

1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:

Although the line is officially a light railway, it is of standard gauge, and the traffic, particularly during and since the war years, is anything but light.

1948 September and October, G. E. C. Webb, “By Light Railway to Fawley”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:

(rail transport, UK) A railway built at lower cost, with lighter track and to a lower standard than a main-line railway.


railway carriage

en-noun

railway carriage (plural railway carriages)

(UK, rail transport) A railroad car (for passengers)


commuter rail

Boston and Philadelphia's commuter rails each have thirteen active lines, but Boston's lines reach, on average, over a third again farther out from the central city than their counterparts in Philly.

I took the commuter rail in to work today, since it's quicker and more convenient than driving on the highway at rush hour.

(rail transport) A rail transport system with trains used to transport commuters between two places, typically their homes and works, normally within a metropolitan area and its surrounding environs, and generally distinguished from other rail transport systems (i.e. subways, metros, tramways) by having less frequent service, lacking free transfers between trains and using heavy rolling stock running on a mainline railway


famil

(travel) A free or low cost trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel wholesaler or airline as a means of promoting their service.


feazings

(nautical) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.


unrigged

As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some whaling-ships, cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet; serving to carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

(nautical) Not rigged; not having the rigging up.


dogshore

(nautical) One of several shores used to prevent a ship from moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.


Exocet

From French Exocet, from exocet (“flying fish”).

(military, nautical) A French antiship missile.


bowsman

From bow (“front of vessel”) + -s- + man.

Being the savage's bowsman, that is, the person who pulled the bow-oar in his boat (the second one from forward), it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale's back.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Monkey-Rope”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 355–356:

(nautical) A sailor who works in the bow of a vessel.


FIT

FIT (countable and uncountable, plural FITs)

(uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully inclusive tour.

(uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully independent travel.


selvagee

(nautical) A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, used for stoppers, straps, etc.


caburn

(nautical) A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.


stoneblower

NR also plans to display a stoneblower from its track treatment fleet at the show. [...] They are known as stoneblowers because they use compressed air to 'blow' extra stones under the sleepers where required, to correct the level of the track.

2021 April 21, Stefanie Foster, “Network Rail pledges major contribution to Rail Live 2021”, in RAIL, number 929, page 19:

(rail transport) A machine that automatically lifts and packs the sleepers of a railway with small-grade ballast, which is blown under the sleepers to level the track.


gaff-topsail

(nautical) A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.


top-chain

(nautical) A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.


rigol

→ Welsh: rhigol (“groove, furrow”)

From Middle English rigol, from Middle French rigole. Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rule.

doublet

(nautical) A ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from dripping inside the vessel.


closehauled

(nautical) Alternative form of close-hauled


stoak

en-verb

stoak (third-person singular simple present stoaks, present participle stoaking, simple past and past participle stoaked)

stoaks (present singular third-person)
stoaking (participle present)
stoaked (participle past)
stoaked (past)

The pump is stoaked.

(nautical, transitive) To stop; to choke.


snatch block

(nautical) A kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.


portoise

Perhaps from Old French porteis (“portative, portable”).


close-reefed

About noon we saw a vessel on a wind to leeward of us, which was a source of great delight to us all, and we bore down to her. We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.

1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman:

(nautical, of a sail) fully reefed; using all the reefs.


top-rope

(nautical) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.


snifting valve

The small mounting behind the chimney of many L.N.E.R. locomotives is the "snifting" valve, or vacuum relief valve, provided to keep the superheater elements cool when the engine is running with steam shut off. When the engine is steaming, these valves, which are carried in small chambers connecting with the superheater header, are kept closed by the pressure of the steam; but as soon as the regulator is shut, the valves open, and admit cold air to the superheater pipes. Apart from this provision, the latter, when empty of steam, would be in danger of burning out by the action of the hot gases surrounding them, especially at the firebox end.

1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Snifting Valves”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:

(rail transport) A small valve opening into the atmosphere from the cylinder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke.


thimbleeye

Each end of the runner has a thimble-eye splice , with a strong hook at the end of the standing part.

1878, Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing, page 105:

Thimbleeye nuts are installed on through bolt, and pole is protected with curved washers.

2006, Thomas M. Shoemaker, Thomas Shoemaker, James E. Mack, Lineman and Cableman's Handbook, page 12-29:

AT least three clips should be used when making any prepared loop or thimble-eye termination for wire rope, especially for hoisting.

(nautical) A loop at the end of a rope that is protected from chafing by a thimble (metal ring).


top-hamper

(nautical) The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship.

rigín uachtair

the upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship


crayer

Ultimately probably from Dutch/Middle Dutch. Related to Danish krejert, kraier.

(nautical) A two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea.


electronic stability control

en-noun

electronic stability control (uncountable)

(automotive) An electronic system that assists in the control of car stability.


sternson

(nautical) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted.


cockbill

en-verb

cockbill (third-person singular simple present cockbills, present participle cockbilling, simple past and past participle cockbilled)

cockbills (present singular third-person)
cockbilling (participle present)
cockbilled (participle past)
cockbilled (past)

to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning

(nautical, transitive) To tilt up one end of, so as to make almost vertical.

(nautical, transitive) To suspend (the anchor) from the cathead preparatory to letting it go.


chinse

chinse (third-person singular simple present chinses, present participle chinsing, simple past and past participle chinsed)

chinses (present singular third-person)
chinsing (participle present)
chinsed (participle past)
chinsed (past)

(nautical) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel, the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.


after-sail

On this final leg home, these experiments were taken a step further by putting an extra-large sail on the after mast, increasing sail area and changing the balance of the rig in that the after sail was then larger than the forward sail.

1994, Ben Finney, Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia:

(nautical) One of the sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.


accommodation train

en-noun

accommodation train (plural accommodation trains)

(rail transport) A local train that stops at all or nearly all stops and is used by passengers and freight.


sternforemost

(nautical, archaic) astern, to the rear.


coursey

Compare Old French corsie, coursie (“passageway to the stern”). See course (noun).

(nautical) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.


chebacco

From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built, and the still current name of bodies of water in its environment. The town's name derives from Agawam, an Eastern Algonquian language.

On an evening soon after the first of the year, we went on board a felucca boat (much less than a chebacco) for Leghorn.

1830, Silas Pinckney Holbrook, Sketches, by a Traveller:

(nautical) A (relatively small) narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries.


overwidth

[…] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; […]

1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445:

(transport, law, of a vehicle) An excess of width.


overheight

(transport, law, of a vehicle) An excess of height.


overlength

(transport, law, of a vehicle) An excess of length.


double-bank

en-verb

double-bank (third-person singular simple present double-banks, present participle double-banking, simple past and past participle double-banked)

double-banks (present singular third-person)
double-banking (participle present)
double-banked (participle past)
double-banked (past)

(nautical) To row (a vessel) by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

(nautical) To set two rowers to pulling (a single oar).


lie to

lie to (third-person singular simple present lies to, present participle lying to, simple past lay to, past participle lain to)

lies to (present singular third-person)
lying to (participle present)
lay to (past)
lain to (participle past)

(nautical, of a ship) To have the sails arranged so as to counteract each other.


OPRAF

Office of Passenger Rail Franchising
w:Office of Passenger Rail Franchising

(UK, railways, historical) Initialism of Office of Passenger Rail Franchising.


HSF

(military, nautical, historical) Initialism of High Seas Fleet.


HSF

en-noun

HSF (countable and uncountable, plural HSFs)

(nautical) Initialism of high speed ferry.

(nautical) Initialism of high speed freighter.


LPI

LPI (countable and uncountable, plural LPIs)

(transport, countable) Initialism of leading pedestrian interval, a brief period when pedestrians are allowed to start crossing a street before vehicles are allowed to move.


run of house

(travel) A hotel rate where the hotel agrees to accommodate the guest but does not specify the standard of room until the guest arrives.


pseudo-city code

pseudo-city code (plural pseudo-city codes)

global distribution system
global distribution system

(travel) a short alpha-numeric code used by global distribution systems to differentiate between different travel agency offices.


accommodation on arrival

(travel, UK, Ireland) Hotel accommodation provided as part of the price of a package holiday, with the passenger not being advised of the hotel's name or location until arrival at the resort.


tonneau cover

A hard, locking tonneau cover, which fits over the bed, is an option.

2000 May 7, Dan Lienert, “Behind the Wheel: Ford Explorer Sport Trac”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-07-12:

(automotive) A protective covering which may be secured over the exposed portion of a motor vehicle, such as the seating area of an open sports car or the back of a pickup truck.


back to back ticket

back to back ticket (plural back to back tickets)

(travel, UK, Ireland) Any of a series of airline tickets, issued with overlapping travel dates, used to circumvent airfare minimum stay requirements.


cross-border ticket

cross-border ticket (plural cross-border tickets)

(travel, dated) A multi-sector airline ticket, issued for travel from a place that the passenger does not intend to fly from, in order to get a lower fare.


seat only

(travel, UK, Ireland, dated) A package holiday rate without confirmed accommodation reservations, or using a dummy reservation, enabling the tour operator to sell charter airline seats in competition with the airlines.


jettage

(UK, nautical) Certain charges levied upon incoming vessels at a port.


retention line

(travel) A future-dated line of text put in to an airline reservation system or GDS to delay the booking being moved to archives.


ticket designator

ticket designator (plural ticket designators)

(travel) a code on airline tickets to indicate what type of discount is applied, such as for a child or infant, or airline employee.


go-show

(travel) The situation where a passenger checks in at an airport in the hope of getting an earlier flight than was reserved.


fare basis

(travel, aviation) An alphanumeric or alphabetic code used to indicate the type of fare used on an airline ticket, even if the fare is not shown.


VUSA

Thus, both domestic and international competition among U. S. carriers will tend to spread the benefits of attractive VUSAs to all international carriers […]

(travel) Abbreviation of visit USA.: a type of discounted airfare for travel within the United States that can only be sold outside the USA in conjunction with an international return fare starting outside the USA.


guaranteed arrival

guaranteed arrival (plural guaranteed arrivals)

(travel, hotel) A hotel reservation that is either pre-paid or confirmed to a credit card, and will be honoured regardless of how late the guest checks in.


RDC

The virtue of the R.D.C. is that it can be used for short inter-city trips such as this, or for branch services, or even for commuting. It is a pity that its spartan accommodation makes it unsuitable for long runs; the introduction by the C.P.R. of an "improved" service between Medicine Hat and Vancouver (nearly 1,000 miles stopping at almost all stations), using an R.D.C., got the hostile press reception it deserved.

1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:

(rail transport, US, Canada) A Budd Rail Diesel Car, a self-propelled railcar for passengers.


baggage check

(travel, aviation) the part of a boarding pass, or a separate stub, that identifies the passenger's baggage and permits it to be collected at the destination.


down bubble

From the bubble of air in the glass tube of the inclinometer, a gauge that indicates the submarine's vertical trim.

Two degrees down bubble. Hold her at 60.

Dissatisfied with Sailfin's sluggish response, he turned the iron wheel a bit more until the bubble rode backward, indicating that the submarine's stern had lifted relative to the dipping bow. A glance at the calibrations etched into the brass plate behind the liquid-filled glass tubing told him that Sailfin's nose has dipped the required amount. "We have ten degrees down bubble, sir."

2000, Overdue and Presumed Lost, by Arthur MacMahan, page 181

(nautical) Having a downward trim (of a submarine); usually follows the number of degrees.


TBT

target bearing transmitter
target bearing transmitter#English

(nautical) Initialism of target bearing transmitter.


bootstripe

(nautical) A stripe of paint or tape between the topsides and bottom of a vessel.


ship's company

ship's company (plural ships' companies)

[T]he whole ship's company consisted of sixty-five men.

1719, Daniel Defoe, chapter 10, in The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe:

[T]he regulations enjoin the attendance of the entire ship's company, from the corpulent Captain himself to the smallest boy who strikes the bell.

1850, Herman Melville, chapter 33, in White Jacket:

The Aries had a ship's company of twenty-four men, besides four passengers.

1863 April 7, “The Prize Steamer Aries”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-03:

Before the outgunned ship was overtaken and captured, a crewman was wounded, and he later died. The 82 other members of the ship's company underwent 11 months of brutal captivity.

1988 December 25, “Pueblo's Veterans Look Back on '68 in Anger”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-03:

(nautical) The entire crew of a ship, including the officers

The whole ship's company, captain, officers, quarter-masters, passengers, and all, were quite sure that she had succeeded in getting a promise of marriage from him.

1879, Anthony Trollope, chapter 8, in John Caldigate:

(nautical, possibly nonstandard) All of the occupants of a ship, including crew and passengers.


pent roof

(automotive) A penta engine, also known as a pent-roof combustion chamber.


ticket vending machine

ticket vending machine (plural ticket vending machines)

In a very welcome move, ticket vending machines (TVMs) on the route have now added a phrase that explains it well. It lists all the London Terminals to which the ticket may be used, then adds the sentence: "The last rail leg of the journey must be on National Rail services."

2022 November 2, Barry Doe, “Better information on ticket machines”, in RAIL, number 969, page 61:


ticket stamping machine

ticket stamping machine (plural ticket stamping machines)

(travel) An automatic machine that makes the ticket valid by stamping it with the location information and the timestamp.


ticket machine

Passengers may find themselves in a catch-22 situation, unable to buy a ticket for any number of reasons, ranging from an out-of-order ticket vending machine to a lengthy queue to use one, and yet then fall foul of the penalty fare regime.

2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:

(travel) A machine that prints tickets automatically after the customer determines the destination and pays for it.


train shed

As David Leboff points out in London Underground Stations, it is the giant train shed [at Earl's Court] with its iron and glass roof that gives the station its 'main line railway feel'.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:

(rail transport) A building, adjacent to a railway station, covering the tracks and platforms with a roof.

csarnok

a building, adjacent to a railway station, covering the tracks and platforms with a roof


bed screw

(nautical) A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies and assisting in launching.


wapp

(nautical) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.


spoom

en-verb

spoom (third-person singular simple present spooms, present participle spooming, simple past and past participle spoomed)

spooms (present singular third-person)
spooming (participle present)
spoomed (participle past)
spoomed (past)

17th century: Samuel Pepys
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.

17th century: John Dryden
When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.

(nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.


top-armour

(nautical) A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.


CDI

en-noun

CDI (countable and uncountable, plural CDIs)

capacitor discharge ignition
w:capacitor discharge ignition

(automotive) Initialism of capacitor discharge ignition.


from stem to stern

My father, as nurse said, did never fear, / But cried ‘Good seaman!’ to the sailors […] / Never was waves nor wind more violent; / And from the ladder-tackle washes off / A canvas-climber. ‘Ha!’ says one, ‘wilt out?’ / And with a dropping industry they skip / From stem to stern.

c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

The very name of a Sioux became a watchword of terror. Not an elk, a wolf, or any other animal, could appear on the hills, but the boats resounded with exclamations from stem to stern, "voila les Sioux!" "voila les Sioux!" (there are the Sioux! there are the Sioux!)

1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XVI, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 192:

From stem to stern, the [U.S.S.] Enterprise measures 1,040 ft.—roughly the height of the 102-story Empire State Building.

1961 December 1, “Armed Forces: The Mightiest Ever”, in Time:

[T]he Monterey was ablaze from stem to stern as Lieutenant Ford stood near the helm, awaiting his orders.

2006 December 28, Robert Drury, Tom Clavin, “How Lieutenant Ford Saved His Ship”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-08-23:

(nautical) Over the full length of a ship or boat, from the front end of the vessel to the back end.


foc's'le

(nautical) Alternative spelling of forecastle


adcol

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of additional collection: the additional cost of airfare, taxes, and airline fees, on a reissued airline ticket


ACM

agency credit memo
agency credit memo#English

(travel) Initialism of agency credit memo.


ADM

agency debit memo
agency debit memo#English

(travel) Initialism of agency debit memo.


ADM

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


top-block

Underneath this Cap are Eye - bolts (b) , on each side : one is for the top Block, and the foremost one for the Fore Lift Block to hook to

1819, Darcy Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor:

(nautical) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, used in swaying and lowering the topmast.


dog

dog (countable and uncountable, plural dogs)

Australian Kriol: dog

Bislama: dog

Gullah: dog

Sranan Tongo: dagu

Tok Pisin: dok

Torres Strait Creole: dog

desc

→ American Sign Language: Kop@Inside-PalmForward 1o@Inside

→ Dutch: dog

→ Esperanto: dogo

Ido: dogo

→ French: dogue

→ German: Dogge

→ Italian: dogo

→ English: dogo

→ Portuguese: dogue

→ Russian: дог (dog)

→ Spanish: dogo

→ Volapük: dog, doeg

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.
The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. The theory goes that it could have been an epithet for dogs, commonly used by children, meaning "good/useful animal". Another is that it is related to *docce (“stock, muscle”), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā (“round mass, ball, muscle, doll”), whence English dock (“stumpy tail”).
In 14th-century England, hound (from Old English hund) was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog. By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. In the 16th century, the word dog was adopted by several continental European languages as their word for mastiff.
Despite similarities in forms and meaning, not related to Mbabaram dog.

hond

morally reprehensible person — see also scoundrel

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

(transport, historical) A double-ended side spike driven through a hole in the flange of a rail on a tramway.


dog

en-verb

dog (third-person singular simple present dogs, present participle dogging, simple past and past participle dogged)

dogs (present singular third-person)
dogging (participle present)
dogged (participle past)
dogged (past)

It is very important to dog down these hatches.

(transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.


LCC

en-noun

LCC (countable and uncountable, plural LCCs)

low cost carrier
low cost carrier#English

(aviation, travel) Initialism of low cost carrier.

large crude carrier
large crude carrier#English

(nautical) Abbreviation of large crude carrier.


squilgee

(nautical, historical) A small swab used for drying a vessel's deck.


megacarrier

According to Metz, megacarriers will evolve gradually, first with common ownership of several individual companies, followed by integrated marketing among subsidiaries, integration of operations will occur very slowly and cautiously.

1982, Modern Railroads, volumes 37-38, page 69:

The multimodal, transcontinental megacarriers of the future will probably coalesce around the capital assets represented by today's major railroad rights-of-way.

1983, “How Megacarriers May Emerge”, in Forbes, volume 132, page 436:

Along with intramodal mergers, intermodal carrier buy outs and diversification into businesses completely divorced from transportation, rail megacarriers continue the "rationalization* of their lines.

1987, Handling & Shipping Management, volume 28, page 30:

Another transportation innovation is the development of megacarriers, freight transportation companies that offer several shipment methods, including rail, truck, and air service.

2016, William M. Pride, Foundations of Marketing, page 357:

(transport) A freight transport company offering many shipment methods, such as rail, truck, and air service.


short-tack

en-verb

short-tack (third-person singular simple present short-tacks, present participle short-tacking, simple past and past participle short-tacked)

short-tacks (present singular third-person)
short-tacking (participle present)
short-tacked (participle past)
short-tacked (past)

I started short-tacking every hour down the coast, heading further offshore, as I knew I'd find better wind there.

2010, Mike Perham, Sailing the Dream, page 143:

(nautical) To tack several times in rapid succession when sailing upwind in a narrow waterway.


raff

(nautical) A three-cornered sail set on a schooner when before the wind.


ship's husband

(dated, nautical) An agent who has the authority to repair and outfit a particular ship


TTL

en-noun

TTL (countable and uncountable, plural TTLs)

ticket time limit
ticket time limit#English

(aviation and travel) Initialism of ticket time limit.


lineside

lineside signalling

Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution".

1944 July and August, “Top Link Drivers: XXI—Driver H. Blunt, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 226:

(rail transport) Alongside a railway line.


lineside

My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:

(rail transport) The area that borders a railway line.


meaking iron

(nautical, obsolete) A tool for picking old oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.


steady as she goes

(nautical) A cry to a helmsman to keep on the current course.


range anxiety

The quantitative value of the BEV range anxiety is assumed to be equivalent to the cost that the BEV driver has to pay to complete the trip when the BEV is out of its electric range.

2020, Marcello Contestabile, Gil Tal, Thomas Turrentine, Who’s Driving Electric Cars, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 242:

battery electric vehicle
battery electric vehicle

(automotive) The fear that a vehicle (especially a battery electric vehicle) has insufficient range to reach its destination and will therefore strand its occupants.

toimintasädeahdistus

fear that a vehicle has insufficient range to reach its destination


at the helm

(nautical, literally) Steering a vessel.


paulin

Plain white paulins, made of duck without seams. Furnished with snaps and rings or grommets.

1938, Victor M. Linoff, Saddle and Western Gear Catalog, page 121:

The complainant's tents and paulins were manufactured and packed according to detailed specifications.

1956, L. K. Strouse, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, volume 294, page 114:

The sawmill was expected soon, and in the meantime fatigue details were erecting picket huts for temporary use — rows of raw logs stood on end in trenches forming rectangles, with roofs also of wood, covered by paulins and daubed with a layer of dirt.

2000, Richard Irving Dodge, edited by Wayne R. Kime, The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, page 207:


slam-door

At the time of the termination of the franchise, CSE was also part-way through a programme of introducing new trains to replace 622 of its oldest trains including its 558 slam-door vehicles.

2005, Great Britain, The South Eastern Passenger Rail Franchise, National Audit Office:

And as for slam-door trains, you can bet there will be some teenagers growing up soon who just stand there with the door closed and have no idea why the train has moved off without letting them out...

2009, Benedict le Vay, Britain from the Rails: A Window Gazer's Guide, page 258:

First Great Western trains are often characterized by this curious air of panic. It's a combination of the company's attempts to repair its dreadful reputation for punctuality, and the 1970s slam-door carriages.

2010, Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain:

For long-suffering suburban passengers, 1970 represented a milestone as the beginning of the demise of the slam-door multiple unit.

2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 68:

(UK, rail transport) Applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside.


LHR

Lahore Junction railway station
w:Lahore Junction railway station

(rail transport) The station code of Lahore Junction railway station in Pakistan.


abandon ship

en-verb

abandon ship (third-person singular simple present abandons ship, present participle abandoning ship, simple past and past participle abandoned ship)

abandons ship (present singular third-person)
abandoning ship (participle present)
abandoned ship (participle past)
abandoned ship (past)

However, an 8-inch shell takes out what's left of Hoels engines, and the ship is rapidly overwhelmed by incoming fire. The order to abandon ship' is given ten minutes later after trading fire with a Tone-class cruiser, and, fifteen minutes after that, the ship rolls over and sinks, Hoel clearly not showing quite the same level of luck as Johnston.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 28:44 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

(nautical, literal) To leave or forsake a ship due to its impending doom.

jättää laiva

to leave or forsake a ship due to its impending doom


BAE

(military, nautical, initialism) The ship prefix for ships of the navy of Ecuador.


ringsail

(nautical) A light sail set abaft and beyond the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail.


UNMR

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of unaccompanied minor.


close to the wind

en-adv

close to the wind (comparative closer to the wind, superlative closest to the wind)

closer to the wind (comparative)
closest to the wind (superlative)

/ˈkləʊs tə‿ðə ˈwɪnd/

(nautical) In a direction almost opposite to that from which the wind is blowing.


rolly

en-adj

rolly (not generally comparable, comparative more rolly, superlative most rolly)

more rolly (comparative)
most rolly (superlative)

From roll + -y. Compare older roly-poly.

San Diego’s legacy to America’s Cup history has little to do with the light-air, rolly-sea conditions off Point Loma

1995 January, Tim Murphy, “The San Diego uncertainty principle”, in Cruising World, page 63:

As soon as the Wave passed by—our earlier complacency had only cost us a few hours of discomfort, but no real danger—we up anchored to see if we could find somewhere in the anchorage that was less rolly.

2005, Lona Gray, Caught by the Lure of the Sea, page 168:

(nautical, of the sea, comparable) Rough, turbulent, characterized by large or rapid waves.


heave in sight

en-verb

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

heaves in sight (present singular third-person)
heaving in sight (participle present)
hove in sight (past)
hove in sight (participle past)
hoven in sight (participle past)

The captain of the schooner is abaft with his glass in his hand, occasionally sweeping the offing in expectation of a vessel heaving in sight [...]

1836, Frederick Marryat, The Pirate, chapter 7:

Till on Thursday at nine, to the joy of your friend, I was told we were heaving in sight of Ostend;
And heaving in sight on't (yon won't feel a doubt of it) Was good news to one who 'd been long heaving out of it.

1850, “The progress to Ostend”, in Punch:

The smoke of Falk's tug hove in sight, far away at the mouth of the river.

Having crossed the Caribbean in the teeth of contrary winds, it was not until the early days of April that the French fleet hove in sight of Cartagena […]

1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, Chapter XXVII:

(nautical) To appear at a distance, to emerge in the field of vision.


clue card

(travel, aviation) A printed card with basic entries listed for a global distribution system.


global distribution system

en-noun

global distribution system (plural global distribution systems)

(travel, aviation) a multi-access reservation system used by the travel industry and airlines. Abbreviated as GDS.


GDS

You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global distribution system (GDS) supplying travel agencies and online travel agencies with ticket and pricing information, recently announced it was raising the rates it charges on AA tickets. This move was an escalation of a battle that has been brewing between airlines and GDSs.

2012, Kaihan Krippendorff, “Today's Business Revolution”, in Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 21:

Global Distribution System
global distribution system#English

(travel, aviation) Initialism of Global Distribution System.


control arm

(automotive) A nearly flat and roughly triangular suspension member that pivots in two places.


running gear

(automotive) The wheels, suspension, steering, powertrain and usually the chassis of a motor vehicle.

ընթացամաս

wheels, suspension, steering, powertrain and chassis

(railways) Those components of a railway vehicle that run passively on the rails, unlike those of the driving gear. Traditionally these are the wheels, axles, axle boxes, springs and vehicle frame.


ticket time limit

ticket time limit (plural ticket time limits)

(aviation, travel, fare construction) The date and time by which a ticket must be issued for a reservation to avoid cancellation of the booking and/or expiration of the fare quote.


GCR

Great Central Railway
w:Great Central Railway

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


NRM

NRM (countable and uncountable, plural NRMs)

National Railway Museum
w:National Railway Museum

(UK, rail transport) Initialism of National Railway Museum.


snubbing post

(nautical) A post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to stop the motion of a vessel.


plain-laid

(nautical, of rope) Consisting of three strands twisted together right-handed (turning in a clockwise direction).


dead in the train

The electric locomotive was being hauled dead in the train by a diesel over the unpowered diversion route.

(rail transport, of a locomotive) being hauled as part of a train's consist while not providing any motive power.


DAPO

(aviation, travel) Acronym of do all possible (followed by requested task).


UIC

(railways) International Union of Railways – from Union Internationale des Chemins de fer


cross-tie

(rail transport) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.


Castle

en-proper noun

Castle (countable and uncountable, plural Castles)

en:Castle (disambiguation)
en:Castle (surname)

(UK, rail transport) Castle class, a class of steam locomotives used on the GWR


hand over hand

Max went up the rigging hand over hand, and brought his red head with a bump against the base of Harry’s back.

1849, Herman Melville, “chapter 50”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

(nautical) by passing the hands alternately one before or above the other, especially with rope


gunter

Named after Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and geometer. Compare Gunter's chain. For the surname, see Gunter.

(sailing) A device used in sailing, for two main configurations of rig:

A wire that leads from a point near the end of a gaff to a point near the other end. A block travels along this wire, and a halyard is attached to the block. This allows the gaff to be raised to the vertical by a single halyard.

A set of hoops or parrel beads which secure the gaff loosely to the mast in a vertical position.


traffic conference area

en-noun

traffic conference area (plural traffic conference areas)

(aviation, travel) any of the three IATA world-wide subdivisions used by the airline industry.


stempost

(nautical) A vertical post, at the front of the keel, that forms the main part of the bow


LCT

landing craft tank
landing craft tank#English

(nautical, military) Initialism of landing craft tank.


landing craft tank

landing craft tank (plural landing craft tanks)

(military, nautical) an amphibious assault water vessel designed to transport a tank across water to directly onto shore, where the tank may roll off the vessel onto the shore, while under enemy fire.


caracore

(historical, nautical) A light vessel or proa used by the native Filipinos up until the 18th century.


sea lawyer

Well, I will say, I think the sea lawyer is worse than the chaps on shore. I would rather see Mother Carey's chickens any day than a shark following a ship.

1852, The Spectator - Volume 25, page 807:

The extraordinary number of these sea lawyers present, was equalled only by their rapacity. Before we began cutting-in, they had already commenced their meal. Taking advantage of a heave of the swell, a shark would wriggle up on top of the whale, and setting his wide opened mouth against the solid blubber, would bite out a piece as round as and about the size of a man's head.

1859, The boy's own sea stories; the adventures of a sailor, narrated by himself:

On rising, and casting another hasty glance at the big head and huge back fin of my enemy, I saw that he was evidently hungry and excited, and making frantic efforts to get at me; but that, being a big shark, success in his laudable attempts was not within the resources of science -- in fact, morally and physically impossible, for there was scarcely water enough to swim a good-sized salmon. Being convinced of this highly comfortable state of things, I at once became cool and jolly; and, calling out to Frank to run to the United States Hotel, and fetch my rifle and a little bag of ammunition, which I always kept handy for chance occasions of sport, I prepared to have a little “chaff” with the “sea lawyer".

1878, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, page 112:


RNE

(transport, railway) Initialism of RailNetEurope. (a non-profit-making association aiming to enable fast and easy access to the European rail network)


freight operating company

freight operating company (plural freight operating companies)

(UK, rail transport) A company that runs freight trains on the national railway network in Great Britain under license from the government.


train operating company

train operating company (plural train operating companies)

The DfT has remained committed to Driver Controlled Operation with the elimination of guards, and expects train operating companies to work in this mode when new vehicles are introduced.

2019 November 6, “Industry Insider: Blame the policymakers”, in Rail, page 76:

(UK, rail transport) A company that operates passenger trains on the mainline railway network in Great Britain under franchise or license from the Government.


stemhead

[...] and a man, all in a heap in the bows of the boat, slept with both arms embracing the stem-head and with his cheek laid on the gunwale.

(nautical) The top and foremost end of a stem on a marine vessel.


Abt system

(rail transport) A rail system used in mountainous terrain with multiple cograils.


aburton

From a- (“in”) + burton (“athwartship”).


tankie

From tank + -ie.
Senses 1 and 2 were named for the tanks used by the Soviet Union against uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

Central Intelligence Agency
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

The "tankies", as they were known, shunted empty carriages from Copley Hill sidings onto the buffers at Leeds […]

1987, The Railway Magazine, volume 133, London: IPC Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 382:


BSM

(automotive) Initialism of blind spot monitor.


ACU

Assault Craft Unit
Assault Craft Unit#English

(military, nautical, US) Initialism of Assault Craft Unit.


MSC

(aviation, travel) Initialism of Most Significant Carrier, a method used by some airlines to determine the baggage allowance of a multi-carrier air ticket.


maintopman

(nautical) A sailor on duty on a maintop.


biting point

Tight clutch control is needed, so keep the clutch pedal just above the biting point.

2005, Driving Standards Agency, Driving: The Essential Skills, page 68:

To stop rolling backward on a hill, he instructed, depress both the clutch and brake pedals, put the car into gear, release the hand brake, and then lift the foot off the clutch until the biting point is found.

Finding the biting point is not easy: even for more advanced drivers it requires a moment of particular attention to bring the engine to the biting point in order to drive off smoothly.

2022, Anne-Danièle Gazin, Multimodal Interaction on the Move, page 351:

(automotive) The point where the clutch engages when the pedal is released.

puremakohta

(automotive) point where the clutch engages when the pedal is released


ticketer

(aviation, travel) a person responsible for ticket issue.


STPC

(travel, aviation) Initialism of stopover paid by carrier. Pre-arranged hotel transit accommodation, paid by an airline to encourage use of a bad connection on their services.


counterflood

en-verb

counterflood (third-person singular simple present counterfloods, present participle counterflooding, simple past and past participle counterflooded)

counterfloods (present singular third-person)
counterflooding (participle present)
counterflooded (participle past)
counterflooded (past)

(nautical, transitive) To flood (part of a vessel) deliberately in order to counterbalance flooding already occurring on the other side or end of the vessel, so as to remain on an even keel and avoid capsizing or plunging.


counterflooding

New Jersey has taken another underwater hit, this time amidships, and reports are coming in of one of the boiler rooms beginning to flood. Damage-control crews are doing their best, but, between this and the earlier hit, New Jersey is having to engage in some rather extensive counterflooding to stay on something approximating an even keel, and is falling back as speed begins to drop off.

2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 34:20 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 2022-08-08:

(nautical) The action of deliberately flooding spaces in one part (of a ship, boat, or other vessel) in order to counterbalance flooding occurring elsewhere in the vessel and keep the vessel level and on an even keel.


boyer

From Dutch boeijer, so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: compare French boyer.

they have many advantages of us; the one is, by their fashioned ships called boyers, hoybarks, hoys, and others[…]

1651, Walter Raleigh, Observations touching trade and commerce with the Hollander and other nations:

(nautical) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.


FLIFO

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of flight information.


end item

(dated, travel, aviation) (In an airline reservation system) a symbol, usually represented by the hash or plus key, used to join several lines of instruction together without the need to enter each separately.


rowboater

(nautical) Someone who rows in a rowboat.


towboater

(nautical) Someone who pilots a towboat or generally works on towboats in the entercoastal waterways of the U.S.


boat train

In 1906 the cross-channel service was inaugurated between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour. For this the Great Southern & Western Railway built two boat trains of corridor stock, with a restaurant car (57½ ft. in length), to run between Rosslare and Cork.

1943 July and August, “Restaurant-Car Services in Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 210:

In January BR were attacked by three of the country's major shipping companies for the poor standards of boat train services run from Tilbury and Southampton Docks.

1964 March, “News and Comment: Stormy passage for BR boat trains”, in Modern Railways, page 153:

(UK, Ireland, travel, rail transport) A travel service with a train timed to arrive at a ferry port in time for the onward travel by ferry (or vice versa). Alternatively, a service scheduled to connect with the arrival or departure of an ocean liner.


harbor gasket

(US, nautical) A line or band used to lash a furled sail when in port.


dashcam

Why not direct viewers to your website for entire, unedited interviews, an exclusive one-on-one with a local sports star or the whole five minutes of raw police dashcam from that cool chase you aired 20 seconds of?

2006, RTNDA Communicator, volume 60, Washington, D.C.: Radio-Television News Directors Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:

By dissolving from the last frame of the dashcam video clip into the same scene in animated form, the montage associated Murtha with the "good" officers in the other cruiser, embracing him in the group rather than singling him out as the renegade shooter who, to the unprepared viewer of the dashcam video alone, he might well have appeared to be.

2016, Neal Feigenson, “‘That’s What I See!’”, in Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 65:

The evaluator is generally interested in the acquired video data as well as its integrity, but does not operate the dashcam himself. The evaluator is allowed to review anonymized dashcam videos for certain purposes. However, just like the operator, the evaluator must not be granted access to the classified data. An example for this actor is an insurance company that offers lower fees for dashcam users and wants to evaluate the video images after an insurance claim has been filed.

2017, Paul Wagner, Pascal Birnstill, Erik Krempel, Sebastian Bretthauer, Jürgen Beyerer, “Privacy Dashcam – Towards Lawful Use of Dashcams through Enforcement of External Anonymization”, in Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Hannes Hartenstein, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology: […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); 10436), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 188:

[W]e can connect the episode to the rise of "dashcams": small cameras mounted on the dashboards of cars to record the behavior of pedestrians and other motorists in case of accidents. In several countries, the use of such dashcams can already be required by insurance companies, at least to obtain a discount. It seems a plausible scenario that such practices might expand beyond car insurance and police forces, aggregating dashcams with lifelogging to create a situation in which citizens, under cover of security and legal protection, become expected to record and store their daily experience.

2018, Pinelopi Troullinou, Mathieu d’Aquin, “Seeing the ‘Surveillant Face’ of Technology in Black Mirror: Using Futuristic Scenarios for an Interdisciplinary Discussion on the Feasibility and Implications of Technology”, in Angela M. Cirucci, Barry Vacker, editors, Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 74–75:

Proliferating as well are personal monitoring devices—dash cams, cyclist helmet cameras to record collisions, doorbells equipped with lenses to catch package thieves—that are fast becoming a part of many a city dweller’s everyday arsenal.

2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:

digital video recorder
digital video recorder

(automotive) A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.


asymmetrical spinnaker

en-noun

asymmetrical spinnaker (plural asymmetrical spinnakers)

(nautical, yachts) A headsail which, like ordinary spinnaker is attached to the boat only in its corners, but is asymmetrically shaped. The shape makes is suitable for winds from beam reach to broad reach whereas ordinary symmetrical spinnaker is best suited for winds from run to broad reach. The tack of the asymmetrical spinnaker is usually attached to a bowsprit instead of a spinnaker pole.


R/T

(automotive) Initialism of road and track.; used to indicate a high performance edition of a vehicle or part, capable of use for everyday driving as well as amateur racing.

road and track

(automotive) Initialism of road and terrain.; used to indicate a ruggedized version of a part, capable of on-road performance and off-road track/terrain performance.

road and terrain

(automotive, tires) Initialism of rugged-terrain.; a type of all-terrain tire (A/T) with better off-road and on-road performance (similar to M/T and H/T respectively).


ashpit

(rail transport) a pit between the rails where a steam locomotive can drop its fire at the end of a day's work, before going "on shed".


vendor locator

(aviation, travel) A unique alphanumeric reference given by a computer reservations system to each sector of a travel booking.


quarter glass

(vehicles) The small triangular-shaped side window on some vehicles, originally used as a vent.


agency debit memo

agency debit memo (plural agency debit memos)

(aviation, travel) An official notification that a travel agency has underpaid an airline for a ticket or similar, or is being fined by the airline for failure to adhere to fare rules or airline policy.


agency credit memo

agency credit memo (plural agency credit memos)

(aviation, travel) an official notification that a travel agency has overpaid an airline for a ticket or similar travel arrangements.


tailer

The next step was the invention of the self-tailing device, whereby the need for a tailer, holding the sheet or halyard while another person operated the winch, was eliminated.

(nautical) A worker on a yacht, responsible for furling and setting the sails.


SOTI

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold outside, ticketed inside. (relative to the country of origin of travel).


SITO

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold inside, ticketed outside, (relative to the country of origin of travel).


SITI

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold inside, ticketed inside. (relative to the country of origin of travel).


SOTO

(aviation, travel, fare construction, dated) Sold outside, ticketed outside,(relative to the country of origin of travel).


common crossing

common crossing (plural common crossings)

The frogs are made of steel rails; for all common crossings a check rail is placed on each side, at least 12 feet in length, and much longer in special cases. The narrowest part of the throat of the frog is 1¾ inches wide.

1888, American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, volume 18, page 239:

From Fig. 22 it will be seen that a common crossing consists of four rails, i.e. one point rail, one splice rail, and two wing rails.

1943, Permanent Way Institution, British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, page 52:

During the study, various railways will be investigating different types of common crossing, such as Vario, manganese steel, glued or bloomed common crossings and common crossings with glued or welded fishplates.

1991, International Railway Congress Association, Rail International, volume 22, page 40:

The drawback of these common crossings lies in the difficulty of welding them to the adjacent rails.

1966, International Railway Congress Association, Monthly Bulletin (English edition), volume 43, page 397:

(rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross; a frog.


red ball

* ("high-profile high-priority" sense) From a routing system on the Santa Fe Railroad in the early 1900s. Fast freight trains which were to receive priority routing were marked with placards depicting a red disc, and were called "red ball" trains.

Perishable freight, carloads of package freight or merchandise, oils, etc., are designated as Red Ball freight.

1905 August 18, “The Frisco System of Handling Time Freight”, in The Railroad Gazette, volume 39, number 7, page 158:

A special red ball card, which is a familiar sight to every employe—the large red ball on the white card—is attached to every car of red ball freight, one on each side, by the agent at the red ball billing station. A special red ball envelope accompanies each car to its destination.

1910 August, Chalmers L. Pancoast, “Red Ball System of Handling Freight”, in Santa Fe Employes' Magazine, volume 4, number 9, page 28:

The crack passenger trains average fifty-four miles an hour over that stretch, the "red ball" freights average twenty-seven, and the way freights eighteen miles an hour.

1939 November, “Keeping the Iron Horse on Time”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 72, number 5, →ISSN, page 157A:

(rail transport) Of or related to priority freight or the trains that carry it.


gaffsail

(nautical) A topsail above the uppermost or only spanker.


pilot vehicle

(transport) A vehicle that ranges ahead of a convoy/train/transport

(Australia, road transport) A vehicle used to warn other road users of the presence of an oversized vehicle/combination

pilot locomotive
pilot locomotive#English

Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: An engine that runs ahead of a train to clear the route

pilot engine

Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: The leading engine locomotive in a multiple heading train

pilot engine

Synonym of pilot engine / pilot locomotive: A yard/station locomotive engine used to shuttle rail cars around a yard or station


European plan

(travel, hotels) A hotel rate that includes accommodation, but not meals.


oversparred

en-adj

oversparred (comparative more oversparred, superlative most oversparred)

more oversparred (comparative)
most oversparred (superlative)

/ˌəʊvəˈspɑːd/

According to the definitions of character adopted by the association of Lake underwriters at Buffalo, (see March number, vol. 3 page 440,) the “model” is to be taken into account—an important element in the calculation. They provide that “no vessel past six years old, however well rebuilt or repaired, shall be placed in class A, nor one that is oversparred, or hogged, strained from loading, launching, or other cause.”

1856, “Marine Insurance and Its Influence upon Ship-Building”, in The U.S. Nautical Magazine, and Naval Journal, volume V, number 1, page 6:

When such a measurement is established, we may hope for the substitution of correctly modelled yachts, in lieu of the oversparred and overmanned vessels which are to be found at the starting buoys of every regatta.

1865, P. R. Marett, Yachts and Yacht Building: being a treatise on the construction of Yachts, and other matters relating to Yachting, page 80:

The Rockland men believed the yacht oversparred for coasting and eight feet was taken off each of her masts.

1904, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder, page 243:

(nautical) Having spars larger than the usual dimension.


shoebeam

/ˈʃuː.ɡɪə(ɹ)/

(rail transport) A beam of non-conductive material (usually fibreglass or wood), attached to a train bogey that supports the pickup shoe.


sugar scoop

(nautical, informal) A reverse transom which flexes inwardly, usually with swim steps.


ECML

East Coast Main Line
w:East Coast Main Line

(UK, rail transport) Initialism of East Coast Main Line.


WCML

West Coast Main Line
w:West Coast Main Line

(UK, rail transport) Initialism of West Coast Main Line.


GWR

Great Western Railway
w:Great Western Railway

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

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
w:Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

(UK, rail transport) Initialism of Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.


SHS

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


mastrope

From Middle English *mast-roop, *mastrap, from Old English mæstrāp (“mastrope”), equivalent to mast + rope.

(nautical) A rope used in supporting a mast; a stay.


gentleman's cruiser

en-noun

gentleman's cruiser (plural gentleman's cruisers)

(nautical, informal) A style of traditional motor yacht, typically low-set with vertical all-round windows and traditional woodwork.


Challenger

American Locomotive Company, which introduced the 4-6-6-4 (on Union Pacific) in 1936, constructed more Challengers than any other builder and, in Northern Pacific's Z-8 class, built the heaviest. NP owned 48 4-6-6-4's in three classes.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 102:

(rail transport) a steam locomotive of the 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement.


cranse iron

(nautical) a fitting on the end of a bowsprit of a sailing vessel to which the forestay is attached


newbuilding

(nautical) The construction of a new ship.


top and tail

en-verb

top and tail (third-person singular simple present tops and tails or top and tails, present participle topping and tailing or top and tailing, simple past and past participle topped and tailed or top and tailed)

tops and tails (present singular third-person)
top and tails (present singular third-person)
topping and tailing (participle present)
top and tailing (participle present)
topped and tailed (participle past)
topped and tailed (past)
top and tailed (participle past)
top and tailed (past)

All services to Rhymney were top and tailed by locos that had been associated with the line over the years; namely, Classes 33, 37, 47 and 50.

2018, Nicholas Wilcock, Arriva Trains Wales:

Railway Support Services repaired the damaged drawgear to enable the unit to be top-and-tailed to Peel Ports' Alexandra Dock (Liverpool) by Rail Operations Group 57310 and 57312, [...].

2021 October 6, “News in pictures: Final journey for damaged Class 507”, in RAIL, number 941, page 30, photo caption:

(transitive, rail transport, UK) To provide (a train) with a locomotive at each end, for ease of reversal.


top and tail

The Class 50s headed the train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cornwall and back to Bristol, running top and tail on the Cornish branches.

2022 May 5, Peter Green, English Electric Class 50 Diesels: From the Western Region to Preservation, Pen and Sword Transport, →ISBN, page 129:

(rail transport, UK) With a locomotive at each end.


excess baggage

Watch your weight: Excess baggage is damaging to the wallet. Airlines charge typically from $20 to $30 a kilogram.

2003 August 29, Roger Collis, “Frequent Traveler: Send blues packing”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-06-20:

(literally, travel) Luggage which exceeds the allowable size or weight (as for an airline flight or train trip), and for which an extra fee must therefore be paid.


roller blind

(transport) A destination indicator blind on buses and trains having two rollers, top and bottom. It can be rolled to display various destinations and route numbers through a small window.


dinosaur juice

From a humorous association of the term fossil fuel with dinosaurs. This is technically incorrect, since petroleum is derived primarily from fossilized zooplankton and algae.

Within the first 50 years of drilling 2,400 wells, over 859,000,000 barrels of petroleum were extracted in Signal Hill and the Long Beach area. The new darling of Long Beach was dinosaur juice, not celluloid, with the city going wild over the revenues generated by the plentiful natural resource oozing below the former stages of the city's movie community.

1999, Jean-Jacques Jura, Rodney Norman Bardin, Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio, McFarland & Company, published 1999, →ISBN, page 157:

[…] but most of all why are we robbing our grandchildren by wantonly burning up all the world's dinosaur juice?

2002, Paul Wood, False Confessions: A Life in Hawaiʻi, Flying Rabbit Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 113:

And that's just what runs on dinosaur juice — Honda also manufactures electric bicycles and carts and is constantly experimenting with solar- and other ultralow- and zero-emissions vehicles, […]

2003, Aaron P. Frank, Honda Motorcycles, MBI Publishing Company, published 2003, →ISBN, page 188:

(slang, humorous, automotive) Any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.


sleeperette

There is nothing on British Railways quite like the sleeperette accommodation. The bed itself pulls from the wall, and when this is not in use, the reverse side forms the back of a comfortable seat.

1952 April, H. W. Winham, “By "California Zephyr"”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:

(rail transport) A seat in a train compartment that converts into a simple bed.


ITS

(transport) Initialism of intelligent transportation system.


jiggermast

(nautical) The fourth-tallest mast on a ship with more than three masts; particularly a full-rigged ship.


brakeforce

en-noun

brakeforce (countable and uncountable, plural brakeforces)

(automotive) The force applied to a vehicle's brakes.


floorhead

(nautical) Any of the upper extremities of the floor of a vessel.


hullock

(sailing) A small part of a sail lowered in a gale to keep the ship’s head to the sea.


snakeline

(nautical) A small line wrapped around two ropes in order to keep them together.


OTTW

(Canada, rail transport) Abbreviation of Ottawa.


TRTO

(Canada, rail transport) Abbreviation of Toronto.


barocyclonometer

(nautical) A type of aneroid barometer that has accompanying diagrams and directions that help predict storms


reef line

(nautical) A small rope used to reef square sails by being passed spirally round the yard and through the holes of the reef.


RFS

Coordinate term: HIRMS

Russian Federation Ship
Russian Federation Ship#English

(nautical, military, US, unofficial, exonym) Initialism of Russian Federation Ship. (a commissioned warship of the Russian navy.)


hydronautics

From hydro- (“water”) + -naut (“travel”) + -ics (“a practice, field of knowledge or skill”).

affix

(nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation


DR

(nautical, navigation) Initialism of dead reckoning.


thundersquall

“And pray, sir,” said he, looking thundersqualls at me, “ where did you learn them?”

1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, Stringer and Townsend, page 279:

Then Dick began a suit. for the recovery of wages due him, which Podlong resisted on the ground that Dick had broken his contract, and subjected him to great loss and inconvenience by striking work in the midst of a thundersquall in the hayfield.

1863, John Townsend Trowbridge, Woodie Thorpe's Pilgrimage and Other Stories, Boston, Lee and Shepard, page 228:

The 25th brought yet more storms and a violent thundersquall in Norfolk caused a great deal of damage in Stratton Strawless?

(rare, nautical, meteorology) A squall accompanied by thunder.


pony car

From the segment-defining introduction of the Ford Mustang muscle car, whose front grille badge featured a mustang (a type of horse).

(US, automotive) An affordable, compact, highly styled car with a sporty or performance-oriented image.


miscellaneous charge order

en-noun

miscellaneous charge order (plural miscellaneous charge orders)

(travel, aviation, dated) An accountable document similar to an airline ticket, used to pay for travel related services such as hotels and car hire.


eat to windward

en-verb

eat to windward (third-person singular simple present eats to windward, present participle eating to windward, simple past ate to windward, past participle eaten to windward)

eats to windward (present singular third-person)
eating to windward (participle present)
ate to windward (past)
eaten to windward (participle past)

(nautical, dated, of a vessel) To keep the course when close-hauled with minimal steering.


load water line

en-noun

load water line (plural load water lines)


load line

(nautical) The line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded.


chafing gear

(nautical) Any material, usually rope or canvas, used to protect sails, rigging, etc., at points where they are exposed to friction.


maritime loan

(nautical, especially historical) A loan secured by bottomry or respondentia bonds.


depress the pole

en-verb

depress the pole (third-person singular simple present depresses the pole, present participle depressing the pole, simple past and past participle depressed the pole)

depresses the pole (present singular third-person)
depressing the pole (participle present)
depressed the pole (participle past)
depressed the pole (past)

(nautical) To cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.


luff tackle

(nautical) A purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes.


round in

round in (third-person singular simple present rounds in, present participle rounding in, simple past and past participle rounded in)

rounds in (present singular third-person)
rounding in (participle present)
rounded in (participle past)
rounded in (past)

Moncrieff rounded in the slack of the rope and landed the captain most beautifully.

1891, William Gordon Stables, Our Home in the Silver West:

(nautical) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall.


Muley axle

THE CHAIRMAN: Don't you think that many complaints of hard-riding coaches are owing to the fact that the lateral motion is often so great with cars equipped with the Muley axle?

1899, Pacific Coast Railway Club, Official Proceedings:

(railways) A car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals.


let go by the run

let go by the run (third-person singular simple present lets go by the run, present participle letting go by the run, simple past and past participle let go by the run)

lets go by the run (present singular third-person)
letting go by the run (participle present)
let go by the run (participle past)
let go by the run (past)

(nautical, dated) To loosen and let run freely (lines)

(nautical, dated) To let fall freely (sail)


let drive

let drive (third-person singular simple present lets drive, present participle letting drive, simple past and past participle let drive)

lets drive (present singular third-person)
letting drive (participle present)
let drive (participle past)
let drive (past)

And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 27:15:

1625, Nicholas Downton, “Extracts of the Journall of Captaine NICHOLAS DOWNTON” in Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Book 4, Chapter 11, Section 3, p. ,
The Nabob sent Lacandas to informe me, that these supplyes were not for warre, but fild full of combustible matter to fire, and so to be let driue with the tyde vpon our ships in the night […]

Finding that they left us we consulted which way to steer, and resolved to let drive before the Wind.

1683, chapter 17, in John Morrison, transl., The Perillous and Most Unhappy Voyages of John Struys, London: Samuel Smith, page 207:

[…] he ordered our Boats to be heaved overboard and let drive with the Wind.

1768, Henry Brooke, chapter 13, in The Fool of Quality, volume 3, Dublin: for the author, page 169:

Before Lefty Bill could drop his hammer, the spiggoty had turned around, drawed and let drive.

1938, L. Ron Hubbard, Six-Gun Caballero:

(obsolete, nautical) To allow (a vessel) to be propelled by the wind, current or tide.


petticoat pipe

The ordinary blast-nozzle and petticoat pipe properly proportioned for any British locomotive can make it produce 30 d.b.h.p./sq ft of grate continuously with a blast-pipe pressure 4 lb/sq in. above atmospheric pressure.

1962 February, “Letters to the Editor: The Giesel oblong ejector”, in Modern Railways, page 143, letter from W. A. Tuplin:

(rail transport) A short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smokebox of a locomotive, to equalize the draft.


breeze up

breeze up (third-person singular simple present breezes up, present participle breezing up, simple past and past participle breezed up)

breezes up (present singular third-person)
breezing up (participle present)
breezed up (participle past)
breezed up (past)

(nautical, intransitive, dated, of the wind) To blow increasingly cooler.


tripping line

Shot-plug and lead were lowered through the chute, tending the tripping-line of the toggle.

1863, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Text-Book of Seamanship:

(nautical) A small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor.


auto show

(automotive) A typically annual or semiannual public event for exhibition of automobiles and automobile designs.


reefing bowsprit

en-noun

reefing bowsprit (plural reefing bowsprits)

(nautical) A bowsprit rigged so that it can be easily run in, or shortened by sliding inboard. It was popular with cutters.


back and fill

en-verb

back and fill (third-person singular simple present back and fills, present participle back and filling, simple past and past participle back and filled)

back and fills (present singular third-person)
back and filling (participle present)
back and filled (participle past)
back and filled (past)

(nautical) To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind.


crowd sail

crowd sail (third-person singular simple present crowds sail, present participle crowding sail, simple past and past participle crowded sail)

crowds sail (present singular third-person)
crowding sail (participle present)
crowded sail (participle past)
crowded sail (past)

the Spaniards busied themselves in making the most of a sudden favourable change of wind, and, without much regard to order, were crowding sail to get near the land.

1827, William James, The Naval History of Great Britain […] :

(nautical, dated, idiomatic) To carry an unusual amount of sail in an attempt to accelerate the speed of a vessel.


baffling wind

(nautical) A wind that frequently shifts from one point to another.


ticket point mileage

en-noun

ticket point mileage (plural ticket point mileages)

(travel, aviation) An officially stated distance between two cities, used in airline fare calculations regardless of the airports used


MPM

MPM (countable and uncountable, plural MPMs)

maximum permitted mileage
maximum permitted mileage#English

(travel, aviation) Initialism of maximum permitted mileage.


maximum permitted mileage

maximum permitted mileage (plural maximum permitted mileages)

ticket point mileage
ticket point mileage

(aviation, travel) In fare construction, the permitted total of ticket point mileages allowed between two fare break points.


fare break point

fare break point (plural fare break points)

(travel, aviation, fare construction) Any of the cities on an itinerary used as the start and finish of a particular fare.


platform ticket

platform ticket (plural platform tickets)

I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage.

1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 143:

Just 30 years ago the introduction of platform tickets was the subject of lively controversy in Great Britain. They had been used for many years in Continental Europe.

1943 November and December, “Introduction of Platform Tickets”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:

Too many things were said at once, questions about bags and journeys, platform tickets (Wysbraum had lost them), concern for Izzie, all orchestrated with a triumphal note regarding the parcel and the dress.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, pages 329–30:

(rail transport, historical) A ticket giving a non-traveller access to a railway station platform.


slushbreaker

(Canada, derogatory, shipping) an icebreaker with poor icebreaking capabilities, unable to operate year-round in Arctic or polar conditions


babystay

(nautical) A stay just forward of the mast, used to support the mast.


stiffening order

stiffening order (plural stiffening orders)

(nautical, historical) A permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.


CKIN

(travel, aviation) Abbreviation of check-in.


powershift

We overcame this difficulty by using a powershift front-end loader as the last unit in the train[.]

2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 21:

(automotive) A type of dual-clutch gear transmission system.


Burlington

-ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋtən

From Burling + -ton.
The town in Newfoundland derives from a variant of the name Bridlington in Yorkshire and may have been informed by the name of Burlington, Ontario.

One night, October 17, 1944, Burlington coupled 82 cars of Christmas mail for servicemen behind an O5A!

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

w:Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

(rail transport) Short for Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.


neckdown

(traffic engineering) An angled narrowing of the roadway and widening of the pavement, used as a traffic calming measure.


Tesla

From Serbo-Croatian Tesla/Тесла, from Proto-Slavic *tesla. Cognate with German Dechsel, Dutch dissel, Russian тесло́ (tesló), Polish ciosła, Latin tēla. Doublet of tela and toile.

battery electric vehicle
battery electric vehicle

(automotive) Tesla, Inc.: a battery electric vehicle (BEV) automaker founded in 2003.


saddletank

The smart little locomotives, mostly 0-6-0 saddletanks, which are always busy shunting traffic amongst the vast dockside warehouses, belong to the Manchester Ship Canal Railway, a line of considerable importance.

1959 October, Norman Jones, “The Manchester Ship Canal Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 488:

(rail transport) A style of tank locomotive in which the water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle.


tanky

From tank + -y. The noun sense is from the fact that the assistant of the navigator of a ship was also in charge of the ship’s water tanks, and later its rations when refrigeration was introduced.

(nautical, slang) A sailor who assists the navigator of the ship; a sailor in charge of the ship's hold, and thus responsible for the provision of rations and water.


undog

en-verb

undog (third-person singular simple present undogs, present participle undogging, simple past and past participle undogged)

undogs (present singular third-person)
undogging (participle present)
undogged (participle past)
undogged (past)

(transitive, nautical) To unfasten (a hatch or door).


upperworks

On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.

1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:


midwatch

(nautical) A watch kept from midnight until four o'clock in the morning.


mainchain

(nautical, usually in the plural) A chain securing the lower shrouds of the mainmast.


forechain

"Slip into the lee forechains, Billy; there is something in the wind. […]"

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:

(nautical, usually in the plural) A chain securing the lower shrouds of the foremast.


forehatch

(nautical) A hatch in a fore position, typically near the foremast.


trip meter

(automotive) A part of an odometer capable of recording the distance traveled during a short trip by allowing its readout to be reset to zero.


trip odometer

trippmätare

Part of an odometer for recording the distance traveled during a short trip


paddle box

As these [paddle] steamers have not the usual paddle boxes with vents, they look like modern screw steamers, and their good looks are improved by their two masts.

1939 June, G. W. Tripp, “The Modern Railway Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 397:

(nautical) An enclosed structure around a paddlewheel.


have legs

have legs (third-person singular simple present has legs, present participle having legs, simple past and past participle had legs)

has legs (present singular third-person)
having legs (participle present)
had legs (participle past)
had legs (past)


monocaliber

(nautical, of a battleship etc) Having guns all of the same calibre


polycaliber

(nautical, of a battleship etc) Having guns of two or more different calibres


footplateman

The circular attacks the policy of ASLEF, the principal footplatemen's union, for its opposition to pay differentials between main-line drivers and other footplate men, claiming that it destroys ambition and enterprise.

1964 May, “News and Comment: Breakaway footplate union”, in Modern Railways, page 293:

Footplatemen, organised not by the NUR but by ASLEF, had threatened to strike in August 1917 in demand of an eight-hour day.

2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51:

(UK, rail transport) A railway worker who is either a locomotive engineer or a fireman.


stationmistress

At Corris the present G.W.R. operations are in charge of a stationmistress, recalling earlier days at Tan-y-Bwlch on the Festiniog line.

1943 March and April, “Notes and News: On the Corris and Festiniog Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 114:

(rail transport) The woman in charge of a railway station; a female stationmaster.


round to

round to (third-person singular simple present rounds to, present participle rounding to, simple past and past participle rounded to)

rounds to (present singular third-person)
rounding to (participle present)
rounded to (participle past)
rounded to (past)

In less than an hour she was close to the reef, where she rounded to, and backed her topsails in order to survey the coast.

1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island:

1899', Henry Billings Brown, The New York
she received a signal of two blasts from the steamer Burlington, which, with four barges in tow, had gone down the Canadian side of the river, and was then rounding to at the coal dock on the American side, exhibiting her masthead and green lights to the Conemaugh.

(nautical, intransitive, dated) To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed.


false flag

(nautical) A ruse, in the days of sail, in which an attacking ship would fly the colours of its enemy until close enough to open fire.


broach to

broach to (third-person singular simple present broaches to, present participle broaching to, simple past and past participle broached to)

broaches to (present singular third-person)
broaching to (participle present)
broached to (participle past)
broached to (past)

(nautical) To incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.


underride

(automotive, road transport) A vehicle accident in which one vehicle partially slides underneath another.


slab line

when Kings are hailing up their topgallants , Subjects lay hold on their slablines

1713, Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America:

(nautical) A line or small rope by which sailors haul up the foot of the mainsail or foresail.


taut hand

"[…]I'm no Tartar nor a slavedriver. But I am a taut hand, and a taut ship where every man jack works clearly for me, our ship, his mates, and our Fleet is a happy ship.[…]"

(nautical, dated) An officer who is severe in discipline.

"Twas the first time I did that part of the duty in command, and I felt, in the circumstances, I was in for carrying it out with a taut hand."

1879, George Cupples, The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant:


gain the wind

gain the wind (third-person singular simple present gains the wind, present participle gaining the wind, simple past and past participle gained the wind)

gains the wind (present singular third-person)
gaining the wind (participle present)
gained the wind (participle past)
gained the wind (past)

(nautical, archaic) To reach the windward side of another ship.


Samson post

After the Biblical character, renowned for his strength.

(nautical) A strong post resting on the keelson and supporting a beam of the deck.

(nautical) A temporary or movable pillar carrying a leading block or pulley for various purposes.


pig yoke

(nautical, slang, archaic) A quadrant or sextant.


Midland

From Middle English mydlonde, equivalent to mid- + land.

"... the case of the Midland and the case of the Great Eastern" (his Lordship had been referring to the reasons for special scales). "The case of the Midland we found to be very peculiar, because, unlike most of the other railway companies,..."

1891, Report ... Together with the Proceedings of the [Great British Parliament's Joint Select] Committee [on Railway Rates and Charges], Minutes, Mr. Bidder, in Mr. George Henry Turner is re-called, line 1643, line 15551

(rail transport, historical) A former railway company in England, the Midland Railway.


foo-foo band

We sighted the Jennie Harkness, obviously American, at daylight right ahead in the S.E. trades; at noon we were alongside her, and our Foo-Foo band played "Yankee-Doodle" as we passed her.

1921, Basil Lubbock, The Colonial Clippers, pages 158–159:

(nautical) An impromptu musical band on late 19th-century sailing vessels, made up of members of the ship's crew.


tally on

tally on (third-person singular simple present tallies on, present participle tallying on, simple past and past participle tallied on)

tallies on (present singular third-person)
tallying on (participle present)
tallied on (participle past)
tallied on (past)

“Now then — to the main topsail now! Tally on to that gantline. Don't stand about there!”

1897, Joseph Conrad, The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC:

(nautical) To man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail.


box off

box off (third-person singular simple present boxes off, present participle boxing off, simple past and past participle boxed off)

boxes off (present singular third-person)
boxing off (participle present)
boxed off (participle past)
boxed off (past)

(nautical) To turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback.


paunch mat

(nautical) A thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.


Mikado

From Mombasa the train is worked by a Mikado, built in 1927 by Robert Stephenson, Darlington, originally intended for shunting, but now used on most passenger trains between Mombasa and Nairobi, where the rails are 80 lb. to the yard, laid in 40 ft. lengths.

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

(rail transport) The steam locomotive 2-8-2 wheel arrangement.


topping lift

(nautical) A line used to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom.

dirkki

strong tackle to raise the end of a gaff or boom


gather way

gather way (third-person singular simple present gathers way, present participle gathering way, simple past and past participle gathered way)

gathers way (present singular third-person)
gathering way (participle present)
gathered way (participle past)
gathered way (past)

(nautical, idiomatic, dated) To begin to move

The boat beginning to gather way, too, I threw Sennit the end of a lower-studding-sail halyards, that were brought aft for the purpose, ordered his bowman to let go his hold of the tackle, and dropped the boat a safe towing distance astern

1844, James Fenimore Cooper, Afloat and Ashore:

The ship tacked with the same admirable precision as before, and on gathering way was found to be looking well up for the entrance to the narrow channel.

1889, Harry Collingwood, The Missing Merchantman:

(nautical, idiomatic, dated) to move with increasing speed

(nautical, idiomatic, dated) to get headway by sail or steam so as to answer the helm.


thick stuff

In order to prove the efficacy of this plan , six pieces of rough and six of sided timber were put into the mast - pond at Deptford , and twelve pieces of rough , and twelve of sided timber , and six pieces of thick-stuff , were placed in the mast

1821, John Knowles, An Inquiry Into The Means Which Have Been Taken To Preserve The British Navy, From The Earliest Period To The Present Time:

(nautical) All plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve.


T-top

(automotive) An automobile roof with a removable panel on each side of a rigid bar running from the center of one structural bar between pillars to the center of the next structural bar.


best bower

(nautical) The main bower (anchor from the bow) of a boat.


sub-admiral

(nautical) A naval rank, in some systems, that is the lowest rank of admiral.


semiconvertible

(automotive) Having a retractable textile roof.


semiconvertible

(automotive) A vehicle with a retractable textile roof.


tumble home

tumble home (third-person singular simple present tumbles home, present participle tumbling home, simple past and past participle tumbled home)

tumbles home (present singular third-person)
tumbling home (participle present)
tumbled home (participle past)
tumbled home (past)

(nautical) To incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth.


thick-and-thin block

en-noun

thick-and-thin block (plural thick-and-thin blocks)


sister block

(nautical) A tackle block having two sheaves, one above the other.


water crane

Locomotive water cranes are provided, and a water softening plant has been installed.

1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:

(rail transport) A kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.


sprayhood

(nautical) A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.


ship's corporal

(nautical) A petty officer who assists the master-at-arms in his various duties.


concept car

On the auto show circuit, concept cars lend excitement to the more down-to-earth models on the platform next door, the ones actually available for purchase.

1990 July 1, George Harrar, “Technology: The ‘Concept Car’ Pushes Change”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-01:

Introduced as a concept car in early 2007, the Volt is a next-generation hybrid, a plug-in.

2007 October 11, Bryan Walsh, “The History of the Electric Car”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-01:

(automotive) An automobile which is not available for retail sale and which is usually only a mock-up having limited functionality, but which may be displayed at auto shows to represent design ideas under consideration for future vehicles.


combination car

combination car (plural combination cars)

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(US, rail transport) A railroad car containing two or more compartments used for different purposes, transporting passengers and freight.


shoulder block

(nautical) A block with a projection, or shoulder, near the upper end, so that it can rest against a spar without jamming the rope.


vestibule train

vestibule train (plural vestibule trains)

(railways) A train of passenger cars having the space between the end doors of adjacent cars enclosed, so as to allow the doors to be left open to provide for intercommunication between all the cars.


jewel block

(nautical) A block at the extremity of a yard, through which the halyard of a studding sail is rove.


free board

(nautical) A vessel's side between waterline and gunwale.