Those mouldings which are placed at the knuckles of the stern-timbers.
·noun The joint of a plant. II. Knuckle ·vt To beat with the knuckles; to <<Pommel>>. III. Knuckle...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A sudden angle made on some timbers by a quick reverse of shape, such as the knuckles of the counter...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See head rails. A dish of rails; a lecture, jobation, or scolding from a married woman to her husban...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Narrow pieces of wood, with mouldings as ornaments, mortised into the heads of stanchions, or nailed...
Ruffles. ...
The top-timbers in the fore-body, the heads of which stand perpendicular, and form an angle with the...
Obey your superior's order; give way to circumstances. ...
Teeth. SEA PHRASE. ...
The balustrade work, or ornamental moulding across a square stern, where the counter terminates. ...
Those forming the upper fence of the bulwarks on each side of the quarter-deck and poop in men-of-wa...
See rails. ...
Narrow mouldings raised on a vessel's stern. ...
The short rails of the head, extending from the back of the figure to the cat-head: equally useful a...
The stanchions and rail-work in front of the poop. (See breast-work and fife-rails.) ...
Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...
To steal his handkerchief. ...
A cant name used in Ireland for whiskey. ...
Curved pieces of timber extending from the bows on each side to the continuation of the ship's stem,...
(See stern-rails.) ...
The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail. ...