A narrow plank made to a line formed on the half-breadth plan, by taking the intersections of the diagonal line with the timbers. (See ribbands.)
·noun A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel. II. Diagonal ·noun A diago...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A <<Ribbon>>. II. Ribband ·noun A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally...
, knees, planks, &c., are such as cross a vessel's timbers obliquely. (See diagonal trussing.) ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A particular method of binding and strengthening a vessel internally by a series of riders and truss...
This is an important fir-timber which runs round a little below the floor-heads, for the support of ...
A term given by shipwrights to those lines, or occult ribbands, by which the cant-timbers are laid o...