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The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
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n.
A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager.
v. t.
To take the load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon.
v. t.
To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.
n.
The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.
a.
Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
v. t.
To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage.
n.
A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage.
n.
A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
a.
Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
v. t.
To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
n.
A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.
v. t.
To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.
v. t.
To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.
v. i.
To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
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of Cargo
n.
The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.
n.
One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.
n.
A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
n.
The load, or cargo, of a ship.
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