In ship-carpentry, wood fitted on a timber or elsewhere to make up a defect in the moulding way. This name is sometimes given to a chock.
·noun The woof in woven fabrics. II. Filling ·noun Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. III. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The replacing a ship's vacant planks opened for ventilation, when preparing her, from ordinary, for ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Taking gunpowder from the casks to fill cartridges, when lights and fires should be extinguished. ...
Formerly a small place parted off and lined with lead, in a man-of-war magazine, wherein powder may ...
Blocks of wood introduced in all well-built vessels between the frames, where the bilge-water may wa...
, is just above the deck-transom, securing the ends of the gun-deck plank and lower-transoms. ...
Implies covering the bottom of a ship with broad-headed nails, so as to give her a sheathing of iron...