Two pieces of oak, usually called knight-heads (which see).
·noun An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A thick piece of wood on the head of a whale-boat, round which the harpooner gives the line a turn, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The incurvated ribs of a ship which branch outwards from the keel in a vertical direction, so as to ...
·noun The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. ...
All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel. ...
Those on each side of the stem, continued up for the security of the bowsprit. (See knight-heads.) ...
Those which form the bow of the ship. ...
They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...
Such as are curved, crooked, or arched, for ship-building. ...
Short right-aft timbers for the purpose of strengthening the counter, and forming the stern. ...
See cross-piece. ...
Blocks of wood introduced in all well-built vessels between the frames, where the bilge-water may wa...
See floors ...
These consist of the floor-timbers, futtocks, and top-timbers; they are placed upon the keel at righ...
See futtocks. ...
Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson. ...
The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...
The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut. ...
The top-timbers in the fore-body, the heads of which stand perpendicular, and form an angle with the...
, or long top-timbers. Synonymous with double futtocks. Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from ...
The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...
Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular to, the keel. ...
The first general tier which reach the top are called long top-timbers, and those below short top-ti...
See bevelling. ...
A provincial name for hawse-wood. ...
See stern-timbers. ...
See long timbers ...
Putting in the beam-knees, coamings, &c., and dividing the spaces between the beams for fitting the ...