, is just above the deck-transom, securing the ends of the gun-deck plank and lower-transoms.
·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
·noun The vane of a cross-staff. II. Transom ·noun The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks ...
In ship-carpentry, wood fitted on a timber or elsewhere to make up a defect in the moulding way. Thi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The vane of a cross-staff, made to slide along it by means of a square socket; it may be set to any ...
The replacing a ship's vacant planks opened for ventilation, when preparing her, from ordinary, for ...
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...
A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see). ...
That which is bolted to the counter-timbers, above the upper, at the height of the port-sills. ...
Curved timbers, or pieces of iron, which bind and connect the ship's quarter to the transoms, being ...
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...
Implies covering the bottom of a ship with broad-headed nails, so as to give her a sheathing of iron...
A cross piece of timber uniting the cheeks; generally between the trunnion-holes and the fore axle-t...