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*[[Ballast Bonus]] - a special payment in shipping terms

*[[Bareboat]] - a [[:Category:Shipping terms|shipping term]] describing a type of charter

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*[[Boys' Brigade]] - an international non-denominational [[Christian]] youth organization

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*[[Boys' Brigade]] - an international non-denominational [[Christian]] youth organization

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*Ball bearing, pericularly in the context of a BB rifle: a primitive air weapon that fires ball-bearings or similarly-shaped shot.

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'''B.B.''' was also the pen name of the British childrens' writer Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990), author of ''The Little Grey Men'' (1942) and other novels which drew much of their lyrical inspiration from the natural world<ref>http://www.welford.org/bb.htm</ref>.

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==References==

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