Accommodation ladder

A portable inclined ladder hinged to a platform attached to the edge of a ship, or at the sill of a shell entry port, and which can be positioned to provide access between ship ...

ladder

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A graded series or graduated set, as a hierarchy of contents or an ordered preference for submitted materials; used in the selection and placement of features for presentation, as ...

ladder

Entertainment; Circus

An apparatus widely used in circus. It may be used in various acts; for example, in antipodists' work where a performer, while lying on trink, is balancing a ladder standing on ...

cable

Boat; Yacht

A large rope; May be wire rope or composite-fiber rope. Typically used in the falls rigged in a davit or crane system.

bulwark

Boat; Yacht

The extension of the ship's side above the level of the weather deck.

bulkhead

Boat; Yacht

An upright wall within the hull of a ship. Particularly a load bearing wall.

broaching-to

Boat; Yacht

A sudden movement in navigation, when the ship, while scudding before the wind, accidentally turns her leeward side to windward, also use to describe the point when water starts ...

bridge

Boat; Yacht

A structure above the weather deck, extending the full width of the vessel, which houses a command centre, itself called by association, the bridge.

boom

Boat; Yacht

1. The horizontal member in a sailing vessel's rigging that supports the foot of the sail. 2. A section of a davit or crane that positions the pick-point; articulates under load, ...