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Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) The short planks between the portholes.

Masoola Boat :: Masoola boat () A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced..

Clinker-built :: Clinker-built (a.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

Planching :: Planching (n.) The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks..

Spirling :: Spirketing (n.) The planking from the waterways up to the port sills.

Gangway :: Gangway (v. i.) A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks..

Berthing :: Berthing (n.) The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake..

But :: But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

Furring :: Furring (v. t.) Double planking of a ship's side.

Rail :: Rail (n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks..

Planking :: Planking (n.) The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel..

Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.

Strake :: Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak..

Plank :: Plank (n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer..

Flitch :: Flitch (n.) One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam..

Seesaw :: Seesaw (n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down..

Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..

Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager..

Plancher :: Plancher (v. t.) To form of planks.

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n..

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