Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the top-mast rigging are set up to their upper ends or dead-eyes, and the futtock-shrouds hook to their lower ends.
·noun One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...
The first plank of the ceiling next the kelson; the limber-strake. ...
When a rider is lengthened by means of pieces batted or scarphed to it and each other, the first pie...
, or foot-hook shrouds. Are short pieces of rope or chain which secure the lower dead-eyes and fut...
A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...
See futtocks. ...
Used to support the backstays. ...
Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem. ...
Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...
See chain-plates. ...
An old name for the tyre-streaks or iron plates on the circumference of the wheel of a field-piece. ...
Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...
See limber boards. ...
Stout plates of iron for securing the chains to the ship's side; one end is on the chain-plate bolt,...
Iron plates in the form of the letter T placed under the channels to add strength. ...
Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...