Announced when the anchor just clears the bottom at retrieval.
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SHELL PLATING
The plates forming the outer side and bottom skin of the hull
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FARDAGE
A wood placed in bottom of ship to keep cargo dry
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HOLDING GROUND
The bottom ground of an anchorage. The expression is usually used with a modifying adjective to indicate the quality of the holding power of the material constituting the bottom
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ICE ANCHOR
An anchor designed for securing a vessel to ice
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UP FLOW
The operation of an ion-exchange unit in which solutions are passed in at the bottom and out at the top of the container.
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BILL
The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
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FOOT
1. the lower edge of any sail. 2. the bottom of a mast. 3. a measurement of 12 inches.
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DAVY JONES LOCKER
An idiom for the bottom of the sea.
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BREAM
To clean a ship's bottom by burning off seaweed
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GUARD BOAT
A boat which makes the rounds of a fleet at anchor to see that due watch is kept at night.
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