An extra floor in a merchantman to preserve the cargo from wet in the event of leakage. They are also used in magazines and sail-rooms so as to form a vacant space beneath the powder-barrels and ceiling.
·noun Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Loose wood or other substances, as horns, rattan, coir, &c., to stow amongst casks and other cargo t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
In general, scantlings of wood from 1 inch to 3 inches broad. Long slips of fir used for setting fai...
Express gratings placed on a steamer's deck to place cargo upon, serving as dunnage. ...
Cleats or battens nailed to the sides of a vessel's beams, from which to suspend the seamen's hammoc...
The battens that inclose the upper part of the well. (See loover-ways.) ...
Those used for the hammocks, or tricing up the bags between the beams on the lower-deck. ...
See hammock-battens. ...
Long narrow laths, or straightened hoops of casks, serving by the help of nailing to confine the edg...