rising-floors

The floor-timbers, which rise gradually from the plane of the midship floor, so as to sharpen the form of a vessel towards the bow and stern.

floors
, or floor-timbers. Those parts of the ship's timbers which are placed immediately across the keel...

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Rising
·noun That which rises; a tumor; a boil. II. Rising ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Rise>>. III. Rising ·noun...

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rising
More than; upwards of; as, There were rising of a thousand men killed at the battle of Buena Vista.'...

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rising
yeast, barm good. S. ...

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rising of
More than; upwards of; as, There were rising of a thousand men killed at the battle of Buena Vista.'...

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dead-rising
In ship-building, is that part of a ship which lies aft between the keel and her floor-timbers towar...

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rising-square
In ship-carpentry, a square used in the whole moulding, upon which is marked the height of the risin...

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half-breadth of the rising
A ship-builder's term for a curve in the floor-plan, which limits the distances of the centres of th...

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cosmical rising and setting of the heavenly bodies
Their rising and setting with the sun. ...

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