union purchase
British
noun
1Attributive designating a system of handling cargo involving two connected derricks working in tandem.
2This system of handling cargo.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in The Scotsman.
- second wind
- Second World
- Second World War
- secrecy
- secret
- secret agent
- secretagogue
- secretaire
- secretarial
- secretariat
- secretary
- secretary bird
- secretary general
- Secretary of State
- secretaryship
- secret ballot
- secrete
- secretin
- Secret Intelligence Service
- ignition key
- ignition point
- ignition switch
- ignitron
- ignobility
- ignoble