1) A compartment below offering accommodations for passengers and crew. 2) A private compartment or room on a passenger ship.
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cabin boy (n)
Definition:
A young boy who worked as a servant on board ship especially serving the captain and running errands; often referred to as “the boy” or “the ship’s boy”.
See Also:
ship's boy
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cabin class (adj)
Definition:
A calibre of accommodations on a passenger ship, less roomy and elaborate than first class.
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cabin cruiser (n)
Definition:
A small power boat which offers some accommodations below for passengers and crew.
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cabin fever (n)
Definition:
A state of anxiety caused by long confinement below deck in bad weather.
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cable (n)
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1) A large and very strong wire rope used on machinery to lift heavy cargo or tow nets and trawls. 2) A measurement of distance (archaic) roughly equal to 100 fathoms. 3) A very heavy rope measuring more than 10 inches in circumference. 4) An anchor rode.
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cable length
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cable ferry (n)
Definition:
A vessel for carrying cars and passengers across a waterway operated by an underwater cable.
See Also:
ferry
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cable laid (adj)
Definition:
Referring to the twisted nine strand rope The rope is made by twisting three rope parts, each part a twisted three strand rope.
See Also:
rope, cable, hawser laid
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cable length (n)
Definition:
A rough distance measurement of about 100 fathoms or 600 feet, 1/10 nautical mile, or about 185 m. depending on local custom.
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cable laid
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cable ship (n)
Definition:
A ship specially designed and operated to install and repair telecommunications cables laid on the seafloor.
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cable tier (n)
Definition:
The belowdecks compartment where cable and rope were stored.
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cablet (n)
Definition:
A relatively small cable, or cable laid rope having a circumference of less than 10 inches.
See Also:
cable-laid, rope
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caboose, camboose (n)
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1) A wooden deck structure housing the ship's galley. (18th C, from the Dutch: kombuis) 2) A cooking stove and forge sometimes located on the gun deck.
See Also:
galley
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cabotage (n)
Definition:
The act of trading between ports along the coast of a nation.
See Also:
coasting, coaster, Jones Act
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cadet (n)
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1) A student in training at a naval academy. 2) A rank of student officer aboard a training ship.
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caique (n)
Definition:
1) A light rowing boat common in the Bosporus. 2) A small sailing boat used in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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call (n)
Definition:
A radio transmission hailing another ship or a station ashore, as in: “Give me a call on channel 72.”
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call (v)
Definition:
To initiate a radio transmission hailing another vessel or a station ashore, as in: “If you need berthing assistance, call the harbourmaster on channel 72.”
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calm (adj)
Definition:
Describing a weather situation with no wind and no seas.
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cam cleat (n)
Definition:
A small fitting employing asymmetric rollers (cams), used in small sailboats to grab a sheet or halyard and hold it temporarily, and from which the line can be easily and quickly freed.
See Also:
jam cleat, claw cleat (British)
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camber (n)
Definition:
The arched shape of some decks and deckhouses.
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can (n)
Definition:
A slang term for a floating aid to navigation having a flat top.
See Also:
nun
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canal (n)
Definition:
An artificial waterway that has been dredged and constructed to carry commercial vessels. (ex: Erie Canal, Panama Canal)
See Also:
shipway
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Canis Major (n)
Definition:
A constellation near Orion featuring the major star Sirius. (literally: Big Dog)
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Canis Minor (n)
Definition:
A constellation near Orion featuring the major star Procyon (literally: Lesser Dog.)
