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  • Thumbnail for Davy Jones's locker
    having disposed of them all, either by giving them to other Prizes, &c. or heaving the rest into David Jones's Locker (i.e. the Sea). An early description...
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  • at another ship, stealing the wind from its sails. overboard Off or outside a vessel. If something or someone falls, jumps, or is thrown off of a vessel...
    253 KB (31,730 words) - 15:21, 12 November 2024
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    on a calm night when all other ships in the vicinity thought it wiser to heave to until morning. Later, however, in a recounting he gave of the night's...
    51 KB (6,140 words) - 04:31, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moby-Dick
    out of a lance, a maul, and a sailmaker's needle. He orders the log be heaved, but the weathered line snaps, leaving the ship with no way to fix its location...
    118 KB (16,809 words) - 15:44, 15 November 2024
  • tobacco and is noticed by the second mate. He refuses to throw his tobacco overboard and the mate attacks him. They fight, and Jones severely injures the mate...
    30 KB (4,850 words) - 11:41, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Raft of the Medusa
    ship's biscuit (consumed on the first day), two casks of water (lost overboard during fighting) and six casks of wine. According to critic Jonathan Miles...
    64 KB (8,065 words) - 11:26, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Peacock (1813)
    Midshipman William Rogers left in a small boat to effect a rescue. The crew heaved overboard eleven of the twenty-two guns, re-floated the ship on the 23 September...
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  • 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 through the eye of the wind when...
    308 KB (38,694 words) - 04:06, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glossary of underwater diving terminology: A–C
    keep the loop volume within limits. Compare with passive addition active heave compensation Automated system using inertial feedback to adjust lifting...
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  • PS4, and Xbox One". Gematsu. June 12, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2021. "Heave Ho launches August 29". Gematsu. August 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2021...
    335 KB (12,183 words) - 08:39, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry VI, Part 3
    "For 'chair and dukedom', 'throne and kingdom' say" (l.93). Warwick says something similar later in the scene, calling Edward "No longer Earl of March, but...
    180 KB (26,580 words) - 17:59, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Flamborough Head
    still getting deeper, the guns from the lower decks were reluctantly heaved overboard—not a very difficult task, as much of the hull was missing. The dead...
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  • Thumbnail for Swan maiden
    to a place upstream where he can find a wife. There he will find seven heavely maidens who descended to the mortal realm to play in the pond of the fairy...
    311 KB (44,473 words) - 04:59, 13 November 2024
  • heat heater heating heatshield heatstroke heatwave heath heathen heather heave heaven heavy heavyish heavyset heavyweight heck hedge heed heel heel ("of...
    156 KB (6,689 words) - 18:56, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mullion Cove
    Civil Engineers, and in charge of the construction plans, decided that "heave" created by tidal sea swell (rhythmical rising of the sea) in the "horseshoe"...
    106 KB (17,153 words) - 10:30, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for PS Eliza Anderson
    had simply hidden the sacks that they were supposed to haul on board and heave into the coal bins. The crew and passengers were forced to burn the wooden...
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