Ore carriers sit very low in the water when filled to capacity and, in a gale, water often washes over the main deck. With the hatch covers not secured (remember, the ship left port in clear weather and the storm blew up rather quickly), the waves breaking over the Edmund Fitzgerald saturated the cargo.
Medical Dictionary. cat. play. noun , often attributive \Ëkat\. Medical Definition of cat. 1: a carnivorous mammal (Felis catus) long domesticated and kept as a pet or for catching rats and mice. 2: any of a family (Felidae) of mammals including the domestic cat, lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, cougar, wildcat, lynx, and cheetah.
I thought I would dedicate a page to a discussion on the definition of the phrase âferal catâ. A wide variety of phrases and words are used to describe feral cats. Examples are: free-roaming cats, barn cats, stray cats etc. Scientific studies on feral cats have to contend with this variety of definitions. There is a difference between them. There would seen to be a spectrum of type of feral cat in terms of degree of wildness.