channel-plates

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• Channel

  ·noun A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. II. Channel ·vt To course through or over, as in a...

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• Channel

  1) The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7). 2) The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), p...

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• channel

  In hydrography, the fair-way, or deepest part of a river, harbour, or strait, which is most convenie...

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• channel-bill

  n. name given to a birdresembling a large cuckoo, Scythrops novae-hollandiae,Lath. See Scythrops. ...

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• channel-bolts

  The long bolts which pass through all the planks, and connect the channel to the side. ...

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• channel-gropers

  The home-station ships cruising in the Channel; usually small vessels to watch the coast in former t...

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• channel-groping

  The carrying despatches, and cruising from port to port in soundings. ...

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• channel-wales

  Strakes worked between the gun-deck and the upper deck ports of large ships. Also, the outside plank...

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• mid-channel

  Implies half way across any river, channel, &c. ...

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• backstay-plates

  Used to support the backstays. ...

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• bobstay-plates

  Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem. ...

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• chain-plates

  Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...

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• duledge plates

  An old name for the tyre-streaks or iron plates on the circumference of the wheel of a field-piece. ...

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• futtock-plates

  Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...

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• limber plates

  Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...

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• limber-plates

  See limber boards. ...

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• preventer-plates

  Stout plates of iron for securing the chains to the ship's side; one end is on the chain-plate bolt,...

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• t-plates

  Iron plates in the form of the letter T placed under the channels to add strength. ...

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• dove-tail plates

  Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...

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