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| Donkey Boiler | A steam boiler on a ship deck used to supply steam to deck machinery when the main boilers are shut down. |
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| Donkey Engine | An auxiliary engine used for furnishing power for a variety of small mechanical chores. |
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| Donkey House | The structure on deck where the donkey engine is located. |
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| Donkey's Breakfast | Merchant seaman's name for his bed or mattress. |
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| Donkeyman | Crew who tends a donkey boiler, or engine, and assists in engine-room. |
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| Door | A passage through a bulkhead or other vertical divider of spaces. Doors can be closed, sometimes with a watertight seal, to prevent progressive flooding. |
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| Dorade | A horn type of vent designed to let air into a cabin and keep water out. |
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| Dory | A hard-chined dinghy with flared sides, considered a useful weight-carrying work boat. |
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| Double Bottom | General term for all watertight spaces contained between the outside bottom plating, the tank top and the margin plate. The double bottoms are sub-divided into a number of separate tanks which may contain boiler feed water, drinking water, fuel oil, ballast, etc. |
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| Double Clews | An old term for getting married. |
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| Double Ender | Any Boat Designed with a pointed bow and stern. |
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| Doubler Plate | An extra plate of the same strength or stronger than the original plating secured to the original plating for additional strength. |
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| Doubling | Name given to that portion of the mast of a large sailing vessel where an upper mast overlaps the lower mast, as a topmast with the lower mast. |
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| Douse | To take down a sail quickly; the entire action of getting a sail out of the wind and furling it. |
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| Downhaul | (1) Line attached to the bottom of the boom used to flatten the sail by pulling the boom down, and thus tightening the luff of the sail. (2) A line used for hauling down a jib or staysail. |
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