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Offing
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
- The more distant part of the sea as seen from the shore and generally beyond anchoring ground.
- Implies to sea-ward; beyond anchoring ground.—to keep a good offing, is to keep well off the land, while under sail.
- [1] the more distant part of the visible sea. [2] a safe distance from the shore, towards the horizon.
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Открытое море вдали от бе, русский
Открытое море вдали от берега, русский
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Cape horn fever, английский
The name of the fake illness a malingerer is pretending to suffer from.
Slush fund, английский
- The money obtained by the cook selling slush ashore. used for the benefit of the crew (or the cook).
- A perquisite of the ship’s cook was to keep all the slush he could skim off the kettles of boiling salted meat. when he had gathered enough, he would sell the better quality to the purser for making candles. then he sold the poorer grease to the bos’n as a protective coating for spars. in the course of a voyage the cook would amass a useful sum of money which he called his slush fund. today, in civilian life, the term refers to money secretly set aside for political bribery.
- Средства, полученные от продажи каких-л. отходов и пущенные на поощрение команды (в армии и на флоте) деньги, предназначенные для взяток, подкупа денежный фонд для проведения различных политических кампаний
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