futtocks

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, or foot-hooks.


The separate pieces of timber which compose the frame. There are four futtocks (component parts of the rib), and occasionally five, to a ship. The timbers that constitute her breadth the middle division of a ship's timbers, or those parts which are situated between the floor and the top timbers separate timbers which compose the frame. Those next the keel are called ground-futtocks or navel-timbers, and the rest upper futtocks.

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  • double-futtocks

    Timbers in the cant-bodies, extending from the dead-wood to the run of the second futtock-head. ...

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  • first futtocks

    Timbers in the frame of a ship which come down between the floor-timbers almost to the keel on each ...

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  • second-futtocks

    The frame-timbers scarphed on the end of the futtock-timbers. ...

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  • upper or top-rider futtocks

    These timbers stand nearly the same as breadth-riders, and very much strengthen the top-side. ...

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  • top-rider futtocks

    These timbers stand nearly the same as breadth-riders, and very much strengthen the top-side. ...

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