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  • moulded breadth

    The measure of beam from outside to outside of the timbers, without the thickness of the plank. ...

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  • Moulded

    ·- of <<Mould>>. ...

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  • moulded

    The size of the timber, the way the mould is laid; cut to the mould. ...

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  • Breadth

    ·adj Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the l...

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  • breadth

    The measure of a vessel from side to side in any particular place athwart-ships. (See straight of br...

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  • breadth extreme

    See extreme breadth or beam. ...

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  • breadth line

    A curved line of the ship lengthwise, intersecting the timbers at their greatest extent from the mid...

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  • breadth-riders

    Timbers placed nearly in the broadest part of the ship, and diagonally, so as to strengthen two or m...

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  • extreme breadth

    The extent of the midships, or dead flat, with the thickness of the bottom plank included. ...

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  • line-breadth

    See breadth line. ...

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  • main-breadth

    The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...

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  • half-breadth plan

    In ship-building, the same as floor-plan. ...

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  • height of breadth

    In ship-building, is a delineation generally in two lines upper and lower determining the height of ...

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  • lower-breadth-sweep

    The second on the builder's draught, representing the lower height of breadth, on which line is set ...

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  • straight of breadth

    The space before and abaft the dead-flat, in which the ship is of the same uniform breadth as at the...

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  • top-timber breadth

    The distance between the upper part of the same timber and the middle line. ...

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  • half-breadth of the rising

    A ship-builder's term for a curve in the floor-plan, which limits the distances of the centres of th...

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