skid-beams

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• Skid

  ·vt To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. II. Skid ·add. ·v Act of skidding; — called also side s...

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• skid

  A piece of light timber from ten to twenty feet in length, upon which heavier timber is rolled or sl...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• skid

  to skid a wheel, to prevent its turning in going down a steep hill, to drag it. Kent. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• beams

  Strong transverse pieces of timber stretching across the ship from one side to the other, to support...

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• Skid road

  ·add. ·- A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet....

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• break-beams

  Beams introduced at the break of a deck, or any sudden termination of planking. ...

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• breast-beams

  Those beams at the fore-part of the quarter-deck, and the after-part of the forecastle, in those ves...

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• deck-beams

  See beams. ...

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• fork-beams

  Short or half beams to support the deck where there is no framing, as in the intervention of hatchwa...

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• half-beams

  Short timbers, from the side to the hatchways, to support the deck where there is no framing. (See f...

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• hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. In a man-of-war they support the orlop-deck. (See orlop-...

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• ice-beams

  Strengtheners for whalers. (See fortifying.) ...

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• bed-beams

  See bomb-beds, &c. ...

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• orlop-beams

  , or hold-beams. Those which support the orlop-deck, but are chiefly intended to fortify the hold....

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• paddle-beams

  Two large beams projecting over the sides of a steamer, between which the paddle-wheels revolve. (Se...

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• bomb-bed beams

  The beams which support the bomb-bed in bomb-vessels. ...

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• lower-hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. ...

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• spurs of the beams

  Curved pieces of timber, serving as half-beams, to support the decks, where a whole one cannot be pl...

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