Narrow pieces of wood, with mouldings as ornaments, mortised into the heads of stanchions, or nailed for ornament on several parts of a ship's upper works.
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
Teeth. SEA PHRASE. ...
The balustrade work, or ornamental moulding across a square stern, where the counter terminates. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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. ...
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...
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. ...