The stanchions and rail-work in front of the poop. (See breast-work and fife-rails.)
·noun ·see 2d Poppy. II. Poop ·vt To strike in the stern, as by collision. III. Poop ·vt To break ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[From the Latin puppis.] The aftermost and highest part of a large ship's hull. Also, a deck raised ...
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...
An effeminate looking fellow. ...
A light carried by admirals to denote the flag-ship by night. ...
See hammock-nettings. ...
A short deck or platform placed over the aftmost part of the poop in the largest of the French and S...
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...
Those mouldings which are placed at the knuckles of the stern-timbers. ...
Narrow moulded planks, reaching from the stern to the gangway, and serving as a fence to the quarter...
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. ...