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  • limber plates

    Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...

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  • Limber

    ·adj Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. II. Limber ·noun The shafts or thills of a wagon or c...

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  • limber

    In artillery, the two-wheeled carriage to which the trail of a field gun-carriage is attached for tr...

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  • limber boards or plates

    Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...

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  • limber-box

    Synonymous with limber-trunk. ...

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  • limber-clearer

    A small chain rove fore-and-aft through the limber-passage to clear it when necessary, by hauling ba...

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  • limber-passage

    The line of limber-holes throughout the whole length of the floor, on each side of the keelson, for ...

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  • limber-streak

    The streak of foot-waling nearest the keelson, wrought over the lower ends of the first futtocks. ...

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  • backstay-plates

    Used to support the backstays. ...

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  • bobstay-plates

    Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem. ...

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  • chain-plates

    Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...

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  • channel-plates

    See chain-plates. ...

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  • duledge plates

    An old name for the tyre-streaks or iron plates on the circumference of the wheel of a field-piece. ...

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  • futtock-plates

    Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...

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  • preventer-plates

    Stout plates of iron for securing the chains to the ship's side; one end is on the chain-plate bolt,...

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  • t-plates

    Iron plates in the form of the letter T placed under the channels to add strength. ...

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  • dove-tail plates

    Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...

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