Naut.
a lead weight attached to a line, cast overboard in shoal water and allowed to pay out freely to show the speed of a ship and the force of the current.
Naut.
a lead weight attached to a line, cast overboard in shoal water and allowed to pay out freely to show the speed of a ship and the force of the current.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012