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Dead Euphemistic: Off on a boat [5] To die Euphemistic: Viking Off the hooks [2] Dead Informal British. Not to be confused with 'off the hook' (no longer in trouble). On one's deathbed [1] Dying Neutral On one's last legs [2] About to die Informal On the wrong side of the grass Dead Euphemistic slang Refers to the practice of burying the dead.
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
Burial at sea for two casualties of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, November 1943. Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft.
Dead in the Water may refer to: Dead in the Water (Woods novel), the third book in the Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods; Dead in the Water (Holder novel), by Nancy Holder; Dead in the Water, a novel by Ann Granger; Dead in the Water, a 1991 made-for-TV film starring Bryan Brown and Teri Hatcher
Dead water is the nautical term for a phenomenon which can occur when there is strong vertical density stratification due to salinity or temperature or both. It is common where a layer of fresh or brackish water rests on top of denser salt water , without the two layers mixing. [ 2 ]
According to the Macquarie Dictionary (2005), the original term bilabaŋ means "a watercourse that runs only after rain", with bila meaning "river", [2] and possibly combined with bong or bung, meaning "dead".
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The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death. Death is the end of life ; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.