inner post

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, or inner stern-post.


The post on which the transoms are seated. An oak timber brought on and fayed at the fore-edge of the main-post, and generally continued as high as the wing-transom, to seat the other transoms upon, and strengthen the whole. (See stern-post.) It applies to the main stern-post in steamers, the screw acting between it and the outer, on which the rudder is hung.

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