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Look up: Careen

  1. Careen
    Naval To beach a ship and list her so as to expose her bottom for the marine growth to be scraped off. The word comes from an old French word 'Carine' meaning the bottom of a ship.
    Found on http://www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/

  2. careen
    [v] - move sideways or in an unsteady way, as of a ship or a vehicle out of control
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. careen
    Deliberately to incline a vessel over on to one side,for cleaning,caulking,repair,etc. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Careen
    Ca·reen' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Careened ; present participle & verbal noun Careening .] [ Old French cariner , French caréner , from Old French carène , the bottom of a ship, keel, from Latin carina .] (Nautical) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/25

  5. Careen
    Ca·reen' intransitive verb To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/25

  6. careen
    verb move sideways or in an unsteady way; `The ship careened out of control`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Careen
    • (v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel. • (v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. careen
    (from the article `harbours and sea works`) ...no particular problem and can generally be given maintenance care without putting the dock out of use. The most vulnerable areas, those ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/24


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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