floor-sweeps

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• sweeps

  Large oars used on board ships of war in a calm, either to assist the rudder in turning them round, ...

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• Floor

  ·noun The right to speak. II. Floor ·noun A horizontal, flat ore body. III. Floor ·noun The part o...

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• to floor

  To knock down. Floor the pig; knock down the officer. ...

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• floor

  Used in Congress, in this expression, to get the floor; that is, to obtain an opportunity of taking ...

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• floor

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• floor

  The bottom of a vessel on each side of the kelson; but strictly taken, it is only so much of her bot...

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• Floor

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• floor-guide

  In ship-building, is a ribband placed between the floor and the keel. ...

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• floor-head

  This, in marine architecture, is the third diagonal, terminating the length of the floors near the b...

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• floor-hollow

  The inflected curve of the floor, extending from the keel to the back of the floor-sweep, which the ...

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• floor-plans

  In naval architecture, are longitudinal sections, whereon are represented the water-lines and ribban...

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• floor-ribband

  This is an important fir-timber which runs round a little below the floor-heads, for the support of ...

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• floor-riders

  Knees brought in from side to side over the floor ceiling and kelson, to support the bottom, if bilg...

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• floor-timbers

  See floors ...

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• narrowing of the floor-sweep

  For this peculiar curve, see half-breadth of the rising. ...

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