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Crow's nest

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A crow's nest is a structure in the upper part of the main mast of a ship or a structure that is used as a lookout point. [1]

22 relations: Barrel, Basket, Caboose, Center of mass, Crow, Cupola, Flora, Hunting, Lookout, Mast (sailing), Metaphor, Motion sickness, Radar, Rail transport, Raven, Sailing ship, Square rig, Top (sailing ship), Tower, Train, Vikings, Whitby.

Barrel

A barrel, cask, or tun is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wooden staves bound by wooden or metal hoops.

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Basket

A basket is a container which is traditionally constructed from stiff fibers, which can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners, and cane.

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Caboose

A caboose is a manned North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train.

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Center of mass

In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero, or the point where if a force is applied it moves in the direction of the force without rotating.

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Crow

A Crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly is a synonym for all of Corvus.

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Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.

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Flora

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.

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Hunting

Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so.

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Lookout

A lookout or look-out is a person on a ship in charge of the observation of the sea for hazards, other ships, land, etc.

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Mast (sailing)

The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Motion sickness

Motion sickness is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement.

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Radar

Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Raven

A raven is one of several larger-bodied species of the genus Corvus.

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Sailing ship

The term "sailing ship" is most often used to describe any large vessel that uses sails to harness the power of wind.

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Square rig

Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts.

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Top (sailing ship)

The top on a traditional square rigged ship, is the platform at the upper end of each (lower) mast.

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Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin.

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Train

A train is a form of transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Whitby

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Borough of Scarborough and English county of North Yorkshire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow's_nest

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