transom-knees

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• Transom

  ·noun The vane of a cross-staff. II. Transom ·noun The piece of wood or iron connecting the cheeks ...

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• transom

  The vane of a cross-staff, made to slide along it by means of a square socket; it may be set to any ...

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• knees

  ♦ Dagger-knees are those which are fixed rather obliquely to avoid an adjacent gun-port, or where, f...

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• filling-transom

  , is just above the deck-transom, securing the ends of the gun-deck plank and lower-transoms. ...

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• main-transom

  A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see). ...

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• sea-transom

  That which is bolted to the counter-timbers, above the upper, at the height of the port-sills. ...

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• carline-knees

  Timbers going athwart the ship, from the sides to the hatchway, serving to sustain the deck on both ...

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• cast-knees

  Those hanging knees which compass or arch over the angle of a man-of-war's ports, rider, &c. ...

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• cheek-knees

  See cheeksI ...

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• hanging-knees

  Those which are applied under the lodging-knees, and are fayed vertically to the sides. ...

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• head-knees

  Pieces of moulded compass timber fayed edgeways to the cut-water and stem, to steady the former. The...

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• lodging-knees

  , or deck-beam knees. Those riding on the hanging or dagger-knees, and fixed horizontally in the s...

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• standard-knees

  See deck standard-knees. ...

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• staple-knees

  , or staple-lodging knees. The same as deck standard-knees (which see). ...

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• thwart knees

  Those which secure the after, main, and fore thwarts to the rising and gunwales, and which support t...

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• helm-port transom

  The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...

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• dead-wood knees

  The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...

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• deck-beam knees

  The same as lodging-knees. ...

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• 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...

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• staple-lodging knees

  See staple-knees ...

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• transom of a gun-carriage

  A cross piece of timber uniting the cheeks; generally between the trunnion-holes and the fore axle-t...

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