HIGH SEAS

Definition: HIGH SEAS

HIGH SEAS

1. (Law), the open sea; the part of the ocean not in the territorial waters of any particular sovereignty, usually distant three miles or more from the coast line. --Wharton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Mining

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Ocean

Noun: sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, "vasty deep"; wave, tide,. (water in motion).

River

Gelasma/gr>; beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.

Crosswords: HIGH SEAS

Free to roam the high seas of enterprise as the buccaneers of our broadcasting future! (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

The man spent 90 days on the high seas drinking grain alchohol from a goat bladder! (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro)

Pirates of the High Seas (1950)

Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Gambling On the High Seas (1940)

Treachery on the High Seas (1936)

High Seas (1929)

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Books

• Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas (reference)

• Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas (reference)

• Public International Law in the Airspace of the High Seas (Utrecht Studies in Air and Space Law, Vol 14) (reference)

• Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas (reference)

• Everything I Know About Pirates: A Collection of Made-Up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures About Bad Guys of the High Seas (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Great Ships: High Tech, High Seas - Armament (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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High seas fisheries: Ocean pelagic resources living near the surface are exploit ed by purse seiners and surface long-liners . Top: Italian purse seiner fishing in the central Adriatic. Middle: Bluefin tuna caught in the South Tyrrh enian by a purse seiner. Bottom:Distant-water surface longliner operating in the Mediterranean. Credit: Fisheries.

Chartered Bureau of Commercial FisheriesShip BERTHA ANN. This ship was preparing to leave for an experimental high seas salmon gill-netting fishing expedition. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Canadians on the high seas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. (reference)

Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference)

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Economic History

Sierra Leone

About 60,000 are Krio, the descendants of freed slaves who returned to Sierra Leone from Great Britain and North America and slave ships captured on the high seas. (references)

Trade

India

Sale on High Seas: Sale of goods on high seas for import into India may be made subject to the Ex-Im Policy or any other law for the time being in force. (references)

Worker Rights

Ecuador

The law prohibits children between the ages 14 and 18 from working at night, working on the high seas, and performing hazardous work. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "HIGH SEAS": high seas navigation ♦ the high seas. Additional references.

Albanian

det i hapur (main, seaway). (various references)

Arabic 

‏اعالي البحار. (various references)

Bulgarian 

открито море (main, offing). (various references)

Czech

námořní plavba (high seas navigation, shipping). (various references)

Dutch

Internationaal Verdrag inzake optreden in volle zee bij ongevallen die verontreiniging door olie kunnen veroorzaken (International Convention relating to Intervention on the high seas in cases of oil pollution casualties). (various references)

Finnish

ulappa (the high seas, the open sea), aavalla merellä (on the high seas, on the open sea, out at sea). (various references)

French

police de la mer (policing of the high seas), police de la haute mer (policing of the high seas). (various references)

German

auf hoher See (on the high seas). (various references)

Greek 

πέλαγοσ (offing). (various references)

Hebrew 

ים �"פתוח (main). (various references)

Hungarian

nyílt tenger (blue sea, blue water, high sea, offing, open sea, open seas). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

公海 (international waters). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うかい (international waters, presenting to the public, public meeting, Red Sea, reform, regret, renewal, renovation, repentance, sail, voyage, Yellow Sea). (various references)

Manx

faarkey mooar (beachcomber, ocean, roller). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighhay eassay

Romanian

largul mãrii (offing, the high seas). (various references)

Russian 

открытое море (blue water, main). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pučina (offing, open sea, sea). (various references)

Spanish

alta mar (main). (various references)

Swedish

öppna havet (main). (various references)

Turkish

açık deniz (deep sea, high sea, offing, offshore, seagoing, the open, the open sea). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vùng biển khơi, biển khơi (blue water). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: geishas.

-2 letters: gashes, geisha, hashes.

-3 letters: aegis, ashes, gases, heigh, highs, sages, shags, shahs, sheas, shies, sighs.

-4 letters: ages, egis, gaes, gash, ghis, gies, haes, hags, hahs, hash, hehs, hies, high, hiss, sage, sags, sash, seas, segs, seis, shag, shah, shea, shes, sigh.

-5 letters: age, ais, ash, ass, ess, gae, gas, ghi, gie, hae, hag.

+1 letter: hagfishes.

+2 letters: sheathings.

+3 letters: haughtiness, nightshades, shanghaiers, shillelaghs.

+4 letters: searchlights.

+5 letters: haughtinesses, sheepshearing, superhighways, whitewashings.