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2. Aquatic weed harvester - Wikipedia

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   Aquatic weed harvester. An aquatic weed harvester, also known as a water mower, [1][2] mowing boat and weed cutting boat, [3] is an aquatic machine specifically designed for inland watercourse management to cut and harvest underwater weeds, reeds and other aquatic plant life. [4] The action of removing aquatic plant life in such a manner has ...

3. Cut (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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   Cut (earthworks) Road cutting. In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock from a relative rise along a route is removed. The term is also used in river management to speed a waterway's flow by short-cutting a meander. Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction to reduce the length and grade of a route.

4. Otter (fishing device) - Wikipedia

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   Otter (fishing device) The otter is a fishing device constructed with two parts, an otter board and a fishing line. It is steered by pulling on the line then letting stack so the slide mechanism on the board operates to switch direction. It may be used from a boat or pulled from the shore. It is very difficult to retrieve from a boat once fish ...

5. Daggerboard - Wikipedia

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   General. A daggerboard is a removable vertical keel that is inserted through a "trunk" in the center of a vessel's hull, usually amidships. Daggerboards are usually found in small sailing craft such as day sailers, which are easily handled by a single person. Daggerboards are not usually ballasted but are locked in place by a clip or pin.

6. Cutter (boat) - Wikipedia

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   Cutter (boat) A cutter is a name for various types of watercraft. It can apply to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used under sail or oars, or, historically, to a ...

7. Ship's boat - Wikipedia

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   In the age of sail, a ship carried a variety of boats of various sizes and for different purposes.In the navies they were: (1) the launch, or long-boat, the largest of all rowboats on board, which was of full, flat, and high built; (2) the barge, the next in size, which was employed for carrying commanding officers, with ten or twelve oars (3) the pinnace, which was used for transporting ...