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AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
Also ship's magazine. The ammunition storage area aboard a warship. magnetic bearing An absolute bearing using magnetic north. magnetic north The direction towards the North Magnetic Pole. Varies slowly over time. maiden voyage The first voyage of a ship in its intended role, i.e. excluding trial trips. Maierform bow A V-shaped bow introduced in the late 1920s which allowed a ship to maintain ...
Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as: "current": AC (for "alternating current"); less commonly, DC (for "direct current"); or even I (the symbol used in physics and electronics) Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI
“The letter ‘x’ is a signifier in the way in which I think that the queer community, in particular, has always found ways to signal [themselves],” says Nina Kossoff, creator of ThemsHealth ...
Red Italic Capital letter M on a crescent section of a circle Redwing: 18. White Number on a dark red sail Rhodes 19: An "R" surrounded by a "19", arranged to fit the contour of a circle Sonar: Six horizontal bars of progressively larger thicknesses, from top to bottom
Almost half a century ago, one of the worst maritime disasters in U.S. history unfolded when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald cargo freighter sank in Lake Superior amid a potent storm that stirred up ...
Sort the letters of J in alphabetical order, preserving duplicates; Look up sorted letters in a hash table, initialised with a dictionary, that maps a sorted set of letters to unscrambled words; Print the set of words, which is W; End; Second algorithm: Begin; Input: J, all the jumbled letters that form an unknown W word(s)
The vessel of the missing Baltimore sailor, who set out to sea with hopes of breaking multiple world records, has been located, according to Mexican authorities, as his wife says she's holding out ...