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2. Millwall Dock - Wikipedia

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   The dock is L-shaped, with an 'Outer Dock' running east–west, and an 'Inner Dock' running north from the eastern end. It originally contained around 36 acres (14 hectares) of water and had a 200-acre (81 hectare) estate. The western end of the Outer Dock was originally connected to the Thames at Millwall by an 80 ft (24 m) wide channel.

3. False cleanerfish - Wikipedia

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   The false cleanerfish ( Aspidontus taeniatus) is a species of combtooth blenny, a mimic that copies both the dance and appearance of Labroides dimidiatus (the bluestreak cleaner wrasse), a similarly colored species of cleaner wrasse. It likely mimics that species to avoid predation, [2] as well as to occasionally bite the fins of its victims ...

4. Dry dock - Wikipedia

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   Dry dock. A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other watercraft.

5. Careening - Wikipedia

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   Careening (also known as "heaving down") is a method of gaining access to the hull of a sailing vessel without the use of a dry dock. It is used for cleaning or repairing the hull. Before ship's hulls were protected from marine growth by fastening copper sheets over the surface of the hull, fouling by this growth would seriously affect the ...

6. Mooring mast - Wikipedia

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   1) ' [The mooring mast] comprised a metal column erected on the ground to the top of which the bow or stern of the airship was directly attached by a cable. 2) [The airship] moors at the top of the metal column on a pivoted platform so that it can turn in a circle about the column and remain end-on to the wind;

7. Lame (kitchen tool) - Wikipedia

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   Lame (kitchen tool) A lame ( / læm, leɪm /, from French lame, inherited from Latin lāmina, meaning saw) is a double-sided blade that is used to slash the tops of bread loaves in baking. A lame is used to score (also called slashing or docking) bread just before the bread is placed in the oven. Often the blade's cutting edge will be slightly ...