The fillings in between the frame compartments of the riders, in diagonal trussing.
·noun A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. II. Truss ·noun To bind or pack close; to make int...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The trusses or parrels of the lower yards serve to bind them to their masts and are bowsed taut when...
The Sailor's Word-Book
(1) of silver. In Ps. 68:30 denotes "fragments," and not properly money. In 1 Sam. 2:36 (Heb. agorah...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·- A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss. ...
Synonymous with clasp-hoops for masts or spars; they are open iron hoops, so made that their ends, b...
That part of a rope-truss which goes round the yard. ...
That part of a rope-truss into which the truss-tackle blocks are seized. ...
A gun-tackle purchase applied to the ends of the truss-pendants, to bowse them taut home to the mast...
Those parts of a made mast which are under the hoops. ...
Synonymous with bilge-keels. ...
The ordnance in the bows; also in building. ...
Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into ...
The fashion of the after-part of a ship, in the plane of projection. They are the hindmost timbers i...
Light guns proper to be taken into field operations; one or more of them is now carried by all ships...
The timbers which compose the bow of a vessel, and their sides look fore and aft; it is a name given...
The parts of the keel which are of large timber. ...
Projections at the after-part of the quarter, forming the boundaries of the galleries. ...
Strakes of plank running internally in a line with the decks, for the purpose of receiving the ends ...
Parts of a made mast. ...
When the salt meat is cut up on board ship by the petty officers, the captain and lieutenants are pe...
See pointers. ...
Pieces of carved work on each side of the taffrail upon the side stern-timber, and extending down as...
See graving-pieces. ...
To brail up a sail suddenly; to toss up a bunt. ...