Glossary of Steamboat Terms
- ash chute
- ash pipe
- back-and-belly
- balance rudder
- banking freight
- bar
- barricade
- beam
- bell cord
- bell pulls
- bell ropes
- bell stand
- bight of the bend
- bill of landing
- bitts
- boiler
- boiler deck
- boiler feed pump
- boneyard
- bucket
- bulkhead
- bull rails
- bullboat
- bunk
- bustle stern
- cabin
- capstan
- carlin
- cavel
- channel
- chute
- coal flat
- coal fleets
- coalboat
- cod-wad
- combine towboat
- coon pen
- cordelle
- cordelling
- crossboard
- cub pilot
- cutoff
- cylinder head
- day-mark
- dead low
- deadhead
- deck passage
- decked-over
- deckhand
- dike
- discharging book
- displacement
- doctor
- dollar hole
- dolly
- double
- draft
- drift
- drift bolt
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