When a rider is lengthened by means of pieces batted or scarphed to it and each other, the first piece is termed the first futtock-rider, the next the second futtock-rider, and so on.
Timbers laid as required, reaching from the keelson to the orlop-beams, to bind a ship and give addi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·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
Timbers placed nearly in the broadest part of the ship, and diagonally, so as to strengthen two or m...
Knees brought in from side to side over the floor ceiling and kelson, to support the bottom, if bilg...
See upper futtocks-riders. ...
In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings ...
Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...
The first plank of the ceiling next the kelson; the limber-strake. ...
Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...
, 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. ...