, or staple-lodging knees.
The same as deck standard-knees (which see).
See staple-knees ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A small pit. II. Staple ·adj Fit to be sold; marketable. III. Staple ·noun Unmanufactured ma...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
♦ Merchants of the staple formerly meant those who exported the staple wares of the country. ...
♦ Dagger-knees are those which are fixed rather obliquely to avoid an adjacent gun-port, or where, f...
1) See Staple Inn. 2) House of Lord St. John called" Staple Hall," in length 126 ft., in breadth be...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
On the south side of Holborn Bars at No.2, outside the City boundary. "Staple Inn in Holborne," 159...
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...
See deck standard-knees. ...
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 ...
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
The same as lodging-knees. ...
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...
Tenement in parish of Berkyngecherch called "Ia. Stapeledehalle," 1330-I (Ct. H. Wills, I. 363). No...