floor-timbers

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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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• floor

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• floor

  a flat fish. ...

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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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• timbers

  The incurvated ribs of a ship which branch outwards from the keel in a vertical direction, so as to ...

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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-sweeps

  The radii that sweep the heads of the floors. The first in the builder's draught, which is limited b...

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• Top-timbers

  ·noun The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. ...

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• after-timbers

  All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel. ...

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• bollard-timbers

  Two pieces of oak, usually called knight-heads (which see). ...

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• bolting timbers

  Those on each side of the stem, continued up for the security of the bowsprit. (See knight-heads.) ...

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• bow-timbers

  Those which form the bow of the ship. ...

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• cant-timbers

  They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...

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• compass-timbers

  Such as are curved, crooked, or arched, for ship-building. ...

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• counter-timbers

  Short right-aft timbers for the purpose of strengthening the counter, and forming the stern. ...

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• cross-timbers

  See cross-piece. ...

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• filling-timbers

  Blocks of wood introduced in all well-built vessels between the frames, where the bilge-water may wa...

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• frame-timbers

  These consist of the floor-timbers, futtocks, and top-timbers; they are placed upon the keel at righ...

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• futtock-timbers

  See futtocks. ...

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• ground-timbers

  Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson. ...

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• half-timbers

  The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...

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• hawse-timbers

  The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut. ...

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• knuckle-timbers

  The top-timbers in the fore-body, the heads of which stand perpendicular, and form an angle with the...

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• long timbers

  , or long top-timbers. Synonymous with double futtocks. Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from ...

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• quarter-timbers

  The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...

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• square timbers

  Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular to, the keel. ...

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• top-timbers

  The first general tier which reach the top are called long top-timbers, and those below short top-ti...

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• angles of timbers

  See bevelling. ...

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• bow-log timbers

  A provincial name for hawse-wood. ...

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• long stern-timbers

  See stern-timbers. ...

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• long top-timbers

  See long timbers ...

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• narrowing of the floor-sweep

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

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• warping and framing the timbers

  Putting in the beam-knees, coamings, &c., and dividing the spaces between the beams for fitting the ...

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