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shackle shackle
shackle. 1. A U-shaped iron closed with a pin across the jaws and used for securing such things as halyards to sails, other parts of standing or running rigging where required, anchors to their cables, and joining lengths of chain cable, etc. Shackles used in the rigging normally have a threaded... Read more
traveller traveller
traveller. 1. The ring of a lower sheet block. When shackled to a horse on the deck or counter of a sailing vessel—and thus free to travel from side to side according to the direction in which the sail is trimmed—it is usually known as a traveller. 2. A metal ring fitted to slide up... Read more
mooring mooring
mooring, a permanent position in harbours and estuaries to which ships can be secured without using their own anchors. For large ships, a mooring comprises two or three large anchors laid out on the bottom and connected with a chain bridle, from the centre of which a length of chain cable leads... Read more
John Montagu 4th earl of Sandwich John Montagu 4th earl of Sandwich
John Montagu Sandwich, 4th earl of 1718-92, British politician. He served variously as secretary of state (1763-65, 1770-71) and first lord of the admiralty (1748-51, 1763, 1771-82). He earned (1763) great unpopularity for his charges of obscenity against John Wilkes , because not only had he been... Read more
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William Hopkins William Hopkins
William Hopkins 1793-1866, English geologist. Hopkins studied mathematics at Cambridge, and then supported himself as a private mathematics tutor. Many of England's best mathematicians and mathematical physicists of the time were his students. In his early forties he became interested in geology.... Read more
Earth sciences Earth sciences
GEOLOGIC TIME CONCEPT The expression geologic time refers to the vast span from Earth's beginnings to the present, about 4.6 billion years. To examine the history of Earth, one must discard most familiar ideas about time. Instead of thinking in terms of years, centuries, or... Read more
Saw Saw
Saw Background A saw is a hand tool with a toothed blade used to cut hard materials such as wood or bone. They are among the oldest known tools. Innovations made over thousands of years are still present in modern, mass-produced examples. The first flint saws appeared... Read more
Coritani Coritani
Coritani. A British tribe and civitas. There has been much debate about the name of this tribe, and some believe it was called the Corieltauvi. There is no good reason, however, to discard the spelling provided by the geographer Ptolemy, who recorded them as the Coritani. It occupied the territory... Read more
relativity relativity
relativity physical theory, introduced by Albert Einstein, that discards the concept of absolute motion and instead treats only relative motion between two systems or frames of reference. One consequence of the theory is that space and time are no longer viewed as separate, independent entities but... Read more

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