·noun One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.
In ship-building, is a name for the 5th, the 7th, and the 9th diagonals, the intervening bevellings ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...
The first plank of the ceiling next the kelson; the limber-strake. ...
Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...
When a rider is lengthened by means of pieces batted or scarphed to it and each other, the first pie...
, or foot-hook shrouds. Are short pieces of rope or chain which secure the lower dead-eyes and fut...
A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...
See futtocks. ...