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High Hit: A hit on or near the center of the head pin.

Full Hit: Usually means a ball that is thrown to close to the center of the headpin; see high hit. A ball that hits the head pin at or near the center; often results in a split. Striking the target pi . . . View Full Definition

Loose Hit: A hit low in the pocket, more on the 3-pin for a righthander and the 2-pin for a leftie, than on the head pin. Also known as a low hit.

Light Hit: A hit that doesn't strike the headpin solidly.

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Lower High Water (LHW): The lowest of the high waters of any specified tidal day due to the declinational effects of the Moon and Sun.

Mean High Water (MHW): A tidal datum. The aver-age of all the high water heights observed over the National Tidal Datum Epoch. For stations with shorter series, comparison of simultaneous observations with a contr . . . View Full Definition

Jersey Side or Hit: A ball that hits on the opposite side of the player's normal pocket; i.e, a Jersey for a right handed player would hit on the 1-2 pocket; usually refers to getting a strike in the wrong pock . . . View Full Definition

Hole High: (also 'pin high') when the ball has travelled the correct distance and is even with the hole, but off to one side or the other (whether or not it's on the green)

Institue of High Fidelity (IHF): The premier institution for high fidelity whose standards have come to be universally recognized in application to the operation and design of sound re-enforcement and reproduction equipment.