fork-beams

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• Fork

  ·vi To shoot into blades, as corn. II. Fork ·noun The <<Gibbet>>. III. Fork ·vi To divide into two...

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• fork

  A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his pocket.--'The newest and most dexterous way, which is...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beams

  Strong transverse pieces of timber stretching across the ship from one side to the other, to support...

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• Fork-tailed

  ·adj Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; — said of many bir...

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• to fork over

  To hand over; to pay over, as money. A common expression in colloquial language. He groaned in spir...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• pick-fork

  a pitch-fork. North. ...

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• break-beams

  Beams introduced at the break of a deck, or any sudden termination of planking. ...

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• breast-beams

  Those beams at the fore-part of the quarter-deck, and the after-part of the forecastle, in those ves...

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• deck-beams

  See beams. ...

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• half-beams

  Short timbers, from the side to the hatchways, to support the deck where there is no framing. (See f...

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• hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. In a man-of-war they support the orlop-deck. (See orlop-...

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• ice-beams

  Strengtheners for whalers. (See fortifying.) ...

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• bed-beams

  See bomb-beds, &c. ...

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• orlop-beams

  , or hold-beams. Those which support the orlop-deck, but are chiefly intended to fortify the hold....

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• paddle-beams

  Two large beams projecting over the sides of a steamer, between which the paddle-wheels revolve. (Se...

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• skid-beams

  Raised stanchions in men-of-war over the main-deck, parallel to the quarter-deck and forecastle beam...

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• bomb-bed beams

  The beams which support the bomb-bed in bomb-vessels. ...

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• lower-hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. ...

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• spurs of the beams

  Curved pieces of timber, serving as half-beams, to support the decks, where a whole one cannot be pl...

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