dolly
A small wooden block on rollers used in moving heavy objects.
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- ash chute
- ash pipe
- back-and-belly
- balance rudder
- banking freight
- barricade
- bar
- beam
- bell cord
- bell pulls
- bell ropes
- bell stand
- wicket dam
- bullboat
- bull rails
- boneyard
- bitts
- boiler feed pump
- bight of the bend
- boiler deck
- bucket
- bulkhead
- boiler
- bill of landing
- coal flat
- carlin
- channel
- bunk
- coalboat
- bullboat
- coon pen
- cordelle
- chute
- capstan
- bustle stern
- cabin
- bullboat
- cod-wad
- cavel
- discharging book
- dead low
- dolly
- doctor
- dollar hole
- decked-over
- deck passage
- dike
- day-mark
- drift bolt
- draft
- displacement
- crossboard
- cutoff
- cordelling
- cylinder head
- deadhead
- cub pilot
- deckhand
- double
- drift
- excursion boat
- freedman's bureau
- grate bar
- flunky
- french landing
- gunwale
- gold-braid trade
- gunnels
- forecastle
- grass-hoppering
- drift bolt
- gangway
- fuel flat
- gangplank
- guards
- flue
- government light
- firebox
- drift bolt
- fantail
- furnace room
- guard rail
- hog chains
- laying low
- mud clerk
- keelboat
- lock and dam
- hurricane deck
- levee
- hail
- larboard
- main deck
- kedge
- ash chute
- houseboat
- leadman
- needle
- labor
- mackinaw
- john-boat
- line
- hogshead
- lead line
- mud drum
- keel
- lock
- jackstaff
- lighter
- hawser
- lathes' cabin
- plunder
- spar
- western rivers
- roustabout
- trade
- packet
- sounding
- stacks
- verge
- ash chute
- towboat
- yawl
- tiller line
- skylights
- sampson post
- upper deck
- pitman
- sand barges
- whistle treadle
- stern rake
- wharfboat
- rudder stock
- transom
- painter
- spoonbill bow
- wheelhouse
- stage
- walking the boat
- port
- tow
- syphon
- tiller
- snagboat
- scupper
- reef
- planter
- showboat
- wood hawk
- sternwheeler
- wharf
- roof
- trip pilot
- pantry
- stanchion
- nosing
- steamboat inspector
- walking beam
- prow
- starboard
- telegraphing
- timberhead
- snag
- shantyboat
- ringbolt
- pool-boat
- steersman
- wooding
- striker pilot
- skiff
- rudder
- up the hill
- pilothouse
- pumpboat
- out on the ways
- sawyer
- warping
- rounded to
- staterooms
- outraker
- timberhole
- sounding pole
- sidewheeler
- ash chute
- pop rise
- tourist boat
- woodyards
- texas
- skylight roof
- sack pile
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