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2. List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions

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   Quarter Deck – A location of prominence in a barracks or office; in recruit training, this area by the drill instructor's office is usually off-limits to recruits except during ceremonial discipline; the term comes from the quarter deck of a ship defined as "the part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is ...

3. Sleeve (construction) - Wikipedia

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   Notice the sleeves, fastened to the timber forms before the concrete is cast. improper sleeving in a drywall assembly. In construction , a sleeve is used both by the electrical and mechanical trades to create a penetration in a solid wall, ceilling or floor.

4. Home Depot - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. An aerial view of a Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6 ...

5. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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   1. A post or pair of posts mounted on the ship's bow for fastening ropes or cables. 2. A strong vertical timber or iron fastened through the deck beams that is used for securing ropes or hawsers. [2] bitt heads The tops of two massive timbers that support the windlass on a sailing barge. [2] bitter end The last part or loose end of a rope or cable.

6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   (v.) to decorate for a festivity ("deck the halls with boughs of holly", "decked out with flags") to hit a person hard enough such that they fall to the floor (orig. US) a pack of cards: a wooden, raised platform adjoining a house, usu. enclosed by a railing a packet of narcotics (slang) (v.) to pile up (logs) on a deck of logs or a skidway

7. Bitts - Wikipedia

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   Bitts are paired vertical wooden or metal posts mounted either aboard a ship or on a wharf, pier, or quay. The posts are used to secure mooring lines, ropes , hawsers , or cables . [ 1 ] Bitts aboard wooden sailing ships (sometime called cable-bitts) were large vertical timbers mortised into the keel and used as the anchor cable attachment ...