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Keywords: Sandbar, Floating, Awash, Aground, Farmlands

Related Terms: Vessel, Adrift, Aground, Awash, Bathyscaphe, Bathysphere, Bed, Bilge, Bilges, Boom, Bottom, Breakwater, Buoy, Camel, Centreboard, Draft, Draught, Dredge, Dry Dock, Flatboat, Float, Jetty , Lock, Mooring, Navigable, Pier, Pontoon , Raft, Scupper, Sea Anchor, Slip , Submarine, Waterway, Freeboard, Bilge Pump, Buoyancy Aid, Life Jacket, Squirt Boat, Waterline, Bilge Water, Drydock, Grounding, Underway, Lifejacket, Graving Dock, Narrowboat, Submersible, Run Aground, Scuppers

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Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

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Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded; as, the decks are afloat.

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Buoyed up to the surface of the water, not touching bottom.

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covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing tub"

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The act of floating on the water. Not aground on a rock or sandbar.

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Floating. Not stuck on a rock or sandbar.

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