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• wales

  The thickest strakes of wrought stuff in a vessel. Strong planks extending all along the outward tim...

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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...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• channel

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

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• Petty Wales

  1) Tenements so called in parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, 1563, within the Clo...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• main-wales

  The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...

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• middle-wales

  The three or four thick strakes worked along each side between the lower and middle-deck-ports in th...

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• sheer-wales

  Strakes of thick stuff in the top-sides of three-decked ships, between the middle and upper deck-por...

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• channel-bill

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

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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-plates

  See chain-plates. ...

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• mid-channel

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

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• New South Wales

  n. the name of the oldest andmost important colony in Australia. The name «New Wales» wasfirst give...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris