sheer-wales

Related Words

• wales

  The thickest strakes of wrought stuff in a vessel. Strong planks extending all along the outward tim...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Sheer

  ·adv Clean; quite; at once. II. Sheer ·noun A turn or change in a course. III. Sheer ·vi Bright; c...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• sheer

  Applied in the United States to fabrics of cotton or silk; as, sheer muslin; meaning very thin, clea...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sheer

  The longitudinal curve of a ship's decks or sides; the hanging of the vessel's side in a fore-and-af...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Petty Wales

  1) Tenements so called in parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, 1563, within the Clo...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• channel-wales

  Strakes worked between the gun-deck and the upper deck ports of large ships. Also, the outside plank...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• main-wales

  The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• middle-wales

  The three or four thick strakes worked along each side between the lower and middle-deck-ports in th...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Plank-sheer

  ·noun The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• plank-sheer

  Pieces of plank covering the timber-heads round the ship; also, the gunwale or covering-board. The s...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-batten

  A batten stretched horizontally along the shrouds, and seized firmly above each of their dead-eyes, ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-draught

  In ship-building, a section supposed to be cut by a plane passing through the middle line of the kee...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-hulk

  An old ship fitted with sheers, &c., and used for taking out and putting in the masts of other vesse...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-lashing

  Middle the rope, and pass a good turn round both legs at the cross. Then take one end up and the oth...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-mast

  The peculiar rig of the rafts on the Guayaquil river; also of the piratical prahus of the eastern se...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-mould

  Synonymous with ram-line (which see). ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-plan

  The draught of the side of a proposed ship, showing the length, depth, rake, water-lines, &c. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-rail

  The wrought-rail generally placed well with the sheer or top-timber line; the narrow ornamental moul...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer-sail

  A drift-sail. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• New South Wales

  n. the name of the oldest andmost important colony in Australia. The name «New Wales» wasfirst give...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• break-sheer, to

  When a ship at anchor is laid in a proper position to keep clear of her anchor, but is forced by the...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer, to break

  To deviate from that position, and thereby risk fouling the anchor. Thus a vessel riding with short ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer off, to

  To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer up alongside, to

  To approach a ship or other object in an oblique direction. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheer to the anchor, to

  To direct the ship's bows by the helm to the place where the anchor lies, while the cable is being h...

  The Sailor's Word-Book