jumboize

1. (nautical, transitive) To lengthen (a ship) by replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.Examples: "The replacement and enlargement of the entire cargo section, commonly called "jumboizing," of one of the smaller American-flag tankers, now under bareboat charter to the Company, was completed in September."; "This year the Great Lakes fleet will have four so-called "jumboized" ocean tanks with mid-body sections built in Europe and towed across the Atlantic Ocean and joined to salvaged bow and stern sections."; "Named for the river, the Canisteo was commissioned in 1945 and "jumboized" (increased in size and capacity) in 1967."transitive