steerage-way
1steerage way — noun (nautical) Sufficient movement of a vessel to allow the rudder to grip the water, thus enabling it to be controlled by the helm • • • Main Entry: ↑steer …
2steerage way — noun the rate of headway required if a ship is to be controlled by the helm …
3steerage — n. 1 the act of steering. 2 the effect of the helm on a ship. 3 archaic the part of a ship allotted to passengers travelling at the cheapest rate. 4 hist. (in a warship) quarters assigned to midshipmen etc. just forward of the wardroom. Phrases… …
4way — Synonyms and related words: ability, access, ache to, action, actions, activity, acts, address, adit, admission, advance, advancement, advancing, aesthetic distance, affectation, aim, aim at, air, air lock, air space, alley, ambition, ample scope …
5Masthead Island — IUCN Category II (National Park) …
6harbours and sea works — Introduction harbour also spelled harbor any part of a body of water and the manmade structures surrounding it that sufficiently shelters a vessel from wind, waves, and currents, enabling safe anchorage or the discharge and loading of… …
7Qutang Gorge — The Qutang Gorge (瞿塘峡) is the shortest and most spectacular of China s Three Gorges.Immediately downstream of the ancient village Baidicheng (白帝城) the Yangtze River passes between the Chijia Mountain (赤甲山) on the north and the Baiyan Mountain… …
8HMS Defender (1911) — HMS Defender was an Acheron class destroyer of the Royal Navy.She was built at William Denny Brothers in Dumbarton, Scotland for £83,000 [ D K Brown The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906 1922 . Caxton Editions 2004. ISBN 1 84067… …
9USS Atlanta (1861) — The first Atlanta was a casement ironclad, converted from a blockade runner, in the Confederate Navy, later captured and served in the United States Navy. Atlanta was built at Glasgow, Scotland, by James and George Thompson in the Clyde Bank Iron …
10Spritsail — The spritsail is a form of three or four sided, fore aft sail and its rig. Unlike the gaff where the head hangs from a spar along its edge, this rig supports the leech of the sail by means of a spar or spars named a sprit. The forward end of the… …
