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docking

a act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes or anchors

Bottomry

ship or the master as his agent hypothecates and binds the ship and sometimes the accruing freight as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship if she terminates her

Corral

esp an inclosure made with wagons by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians as a place of security for horses cattle etc

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Bowgrace

frame or fender of rope or junk laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice

Capture

To seize or take possession of by force surprise or stratagem to overcome and hold to secure by effort

Cathead

projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel to which the anchor is hoisted and secured

Chesstree

A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail

Cloisonneacute

when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground as distinguished from champleveacute enamel in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to

Consols

The leading British funded government security

Contravallation

A trench guarded with a parapet constructed by besiegers to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged

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