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  2. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    3. A bed or sleeping accommodation on a boat or ship. 4. A job or position of employment on a boat or ship. best bower The larger of two anchors carried in the bow; so named as it was the last, "best" hope for anchoring a vessel. between the devil and the deep blue sea See devil seam. between wind and water

  3. Row, Row, Row Your Boat - Wikipedia

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    "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song, of American origin, often sung in a round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236. Lyrics

  4. List of closed pairs of English rhyming words - Wikipedia

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    In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed and the first and third syllables unstressed. attainder, remainder; autumnal, columnal; concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish

  5. Category:Songs about boats - Wikipedia

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    Same Boat; The Saucy Arethusa; Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) The Ship that Never Returned; Sink the Bismark (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay; Six Months in a Leaky Boat; Sloop John B; Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat; The Song of the Volga Boatmen; Song of the Yue Boatman; Southbound (Carrie Underwood song) Southern Cross (Crosby ...

  6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikipedia

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    The rotten remains of the ship sink in a whirlpool, leaving only the mariner behind. A hermit on the mainland who has spotted the approaching ship comes to meet it in a boat, rowed by a pilot and his boy. When they pull the mariner from the water, they think he is dead, but when he opens his mouth, the pilot shrieks with fright.

  7. List of boat types - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types

  8. Trow - Wikipedia

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    The men would enter into a contract with the captain of the trow in the many pubs along the Severn riverbanks, and there was a right of way along the bankside. A document originally published in 1940 about such vessels states that the term trow is "believed to have been derived from the same root as the word 'trough'". [3]

  9. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]