In the case of foreign-going ships making voyages averaging less than six months in duration, running agreements can legally be made with the crew to extend over two or more voyages.
·noun The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. II. Agreement ·noun Concord or ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Except vessels of less than eighty tons register, the master of a ship must enter into an agreement ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Moving or advancing by running. II. Running ·adj Discharging pus; as, a running sore. III. Ru...
·add. ·- An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the...
A written document signed by the consignees of a cargo, binding themselves to pay a certain proporti...
·adj Straight; direct. ...
·add. ·- The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing. II. Running load ·...
A piece of game frequently practised at fairs, wakes, &c. A large pig, whose tail is cut short, and ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
or NAG A clap, or gleet. ...
Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them. ...
Hawker of newspapers, trials, and dying speeches. ...
A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greas...
n. a Tasmanian plant,i.q. Coral-Pea. See Kennedya. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
In cutter-rigged vessels. (See cutter.) ...
(See under-run.) Applied to ice, when the young ice overlaps, and is driven over. ...
Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles. ...
One which is used in revenue cutters and smacks; it can be reefed by sliding in, and has fid holes f...
A vessel, by accident or bad steerage, falling in contact with another under sail. (See athwart // h...
Landing a cargo of contraband articles. ...
(Leviticus 15:2,3; 22:4; Numbers 5:2; 2 Samuel 3:29) In (Leviticus 15:3) a distinction is introduced...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hire and purchase agreement. ...
Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...
A special admission into policies of marine insurance, to include the risk of loss or damage in cons...
See gant-lope (pronounced gantlet). ...
·add. ·- A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a perso...
A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...
Synonymous with the fall, or that part on which the man power is applied to produce the intended eff...