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Pontoon

flat bottomed boat a metallic cylinder or a frame covered with canvas India rubber etc forming a portable float used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops

Balsa

A raft or float used principally on the Pacific coast of South America

Breastwheel

height of the wheel being kept in contact with it by the breasting The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse partly by its weight

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Buoyant

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid tending to rise or float as iron is buoyant in mercury

Balloon

silk or other light material and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air so as to rise and float in the atmosphere especially one with a car attached for aeumlrial navigation

fleet

To sail to float

VerbarJetsam

Goods which sink when cast into the sea and remain under water distinguished from flotsam goods which float and ligan or lagan goods which are sunk attached to a buoy

Ligger

A baited line attached to a float for night fishing See Leger a

Meerschaum

A fine white claylike mineral soft and light enough when in dry masses to float in water It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor It is

Neaped

Left aground on the height of a spring tide so that it will not float till the next spring tide called also beneaped

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