An ornamental frame of netting answering the purpose of a bulwark.
·noun The sides of a ship above the upper deck. II. Bulwark ·noun A rampart; a fortification; a bas...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The planking or wood-work round a vessel above her deck, and fastened externally to the stanchions a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun <<Urine>>. II. Netting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Net>>. III. Netting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Net>>. ...
chamber-lye, urine. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Network of rope or small line for the purpose of securing hammocks, sails, &c. ♦ Boarding netting....
At Tower Hill. Two signs, the Crooked Billet and the Lion Rampant, described as at the Bulwarke Gate...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Ludgate prison. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The netting placed just above a vessel's bowsprit, for stowing away the fore-topmast staysail; it is...
An ornamental netting used in merchant ships instead of the fayed planking to the head-rails. ...
See hammock-nettings. ...
The fore-topmast staysail, main-topmast staysail, and main staysail are generally stowed in the nett...
A cross-barred net formed of half-inch rope lashed at every rectangular crossing, and spread from ri...
See bowsprit-netting. ...
A night punishment in a man-of-war for those of the watch who have missed their muster. ...