SEATALK is a copyrighted reference work, owned by Rachel Stone. You
may feel free to extract individual definitions from this source as long
as you include a reference.
Hard copy reference for footnotes and bibliography:
Seatalk, The Dictionary of English Nautical Language, www.seatalk.ca,
keyword (insert the term here), originally created by Mike MacKenzie, Nova Scotia,
2005.
Digital copy link:
https://www.seatalk.ca/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&view_records=1&uid=default&Term=(Insert the term here)
(Do not type in the parentheses around the
term in the digital link.) If there is more than one word in the term, use a + sign instead of a space, e.g., mooring+bitt
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