Those which are applied under the lodging-knees, and are fayed vertically to the sides.
·noun Death by suspension; execution by a halter. II. Hanging ·adj Suspended from above; pendent; a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather t...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A word expressive of anything declining in the middle part below a straight line, as the hanging of ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
♦ Dagger-knees are those which are fixed rather obliquely to avoid an adjacent gun-port, or where, f...
Hangings The "hanging" was a curtain or 'covering' to close an entrance; one was placed before the ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Timbers going athwart the ship, from the sides to the hatchway, serving to sustain the deck on both ...
Those hanging knees which compass or arch over the angle of a man-of-war's ports, rider, &c. ...
See cheeksI ...
These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...
A semicircular iron, with a foot at each end to receive nails, by which it is fixed to any part of t...
A compass so constructed as to hang with its face downwards, the point which supports the card being...
Any stage hung over the side, bows, or stern, for painting, caulking, or temporary repairs. ...
Used for ventilating or drying between decks. ...
Pieces of moulded compass timber fayed edgeways to the cut-water and stem, to steady the former. The...
, or deck-beam knees. Those riding on the hanging or dagger-knees, and fixed horizontally in the s...
See deck standard-knees. ...
, or staple-lodging knees. The same as deck standard-knees (which see). ...
Those which secure the after, main, and fore thwarts to the rising and gunwales, and which support t...
Curved timbers, or pieces of iron, which bind and connect the ship's quarter to the transoms, being ...
East out of Whitefriars Street, at No. 22, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First menti...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
South out of Fleet Street and west to Hanging Sword Alley, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 167...
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
The same as lodging-knees. ...
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...
Tin utensils fitted for hanging to the bars before the galley-grate. ...
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...
So as to allow the pintles to fall into their corresponding braces, constantly in boats, and frequen...
See staple-knees ...