See deck standard-knees.
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun The sheth of a plow. II. Standard ·noun A large drinking cup. III. Standard ·adj Not of the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
There were several" Standards "in the City used for the supply of water with conduits or cisterns in...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Formerly, in ship-building, was an inverted knee, placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, and ha...
♦ Dagger-knees are those which are fixed rather obliquely to avoid an adjacent gun-port, or where, f...
·adj Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes u...
·noun A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing ere...
See standard. ...
Those planks of the pine or fir above 7 inches wide and 6 feet long: under that length they are know...
Timbers going athwart the ship, from the sides to the hatchway, serving to sustain the deck on both ...
Those hanging knees which compass or arch over the angle of a man-of-war's ports, rider, &c. ...
See cheeksI ...
Those which are applied under the lodging-knees, and are fayed vertically to the sides. ...
Pieces of moulded compass timber fayed edgeways to the cut-water and stem, to steady the former. The...
, or deck-beam knees. Those riding on the hanging or dagger-knees, and fixed horizontally in the s...
, or staple-lodging knees. The same as deck standard-knees (which see). ...
Those which secure the after, main, and fore thwarts to the rising and gunwales, and which support t...
Curved timbers, or pieces of iron, which bind and connect the ship's quarter to the transoms, being ...
At the east end of Cornhill, where the four streets met, in the middle of the street (S. 189). It s...
In the middle of Cheapside, nearly opposite the south end of Honey Lane, east of Bread Street (Leake...
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
The same as lodging-knees. ...
See staple-knees ...
Opposite the south end of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 110, 394). First mention: " The...
Mentioned by Stow (391) and the waste of the water served the prisoners in Ludgate. ...