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Grib File: - Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail

Glakit Scots word for stupid-looking - as in the extract from this poem Gone is the Glasgow I used to know by Adam McNaughton

Big Willie, wee Shooie, the Steamie, the Co.
The wee Glesca bauchle, the glakit big dreep
The ba's oan the slates and yer gas in a peep

Gunwale Bum: lesions, looking like pimples on the bum, caused by pressure, chafing, heat, damp etc; sometimes known as spotty botty, skipper’s seat or barnacle butt
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Finding an empty reference page just means Alex hasn't yet referred to anything obscure beginning with that letter - he will given time