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afternoon watch The 1200–1600 watch. [3] aground Resting on or touching the ground or land, or the bottom of a body of water (either unintentionally or deliberately, such as in a drying harbour), as opposed to afloat. [3] ahead Forward of the bow. ahoo An adjective indicating an un-seamanlike state of disarray.
A glissade is a climbing technique mostly used in mountaineering and alpine climbing where a climber starts a controlled slide down a snow and/or ice slope to speed up their descent. Glissading is ideally done later in the day when the snow is softer. [1] [2]
A ball woven out of line used to provide heft to heave the line to another location. The monkey fist and other heaving-line knots were sometimes weighted with lead (easily available in the form of foil used e.g. to seal tea chests from dampness) although Clifford W. Ashley notes that there was a "definite sporting limit" to the weight thus added.
Slop or SLOP may refer to: Slop (clothing) AI slop, a derogatory term describing low-quality artificial intelligence-generated content or media; Slop is the common name for household food scraps; Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure, in aviation, a procedure for avoiding collisions; a popular term for Backlash (engineering)
Slop Noun: "Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality ...
Pipes exposed to "severe cold" including outdoor hose bibs, swimming pool supply lines, and water sprinkler lines. (If you have swimming pool or sprinkler supply lines, they needed drained too.)
When you're ill, it can be hard to tell whether exercise will make you feel better or worse. If you're unsure, you can use the "neck rule" to determine whether working out is a good idea.
Also cold spell and cold snap. A period of weather characterized by excessively low temperatures, which may or may not also be accompanied by changes in humidity . Very cold weather is often only referred to as a cold wave if the temperature, or the rate at which the temperature decreases within a given time period, is abnormal relative to the ...