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Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

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

Cleading :: Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc..

Planking :: Planking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plan.

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Boottopping :: Boottopping (n.) Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

Loof :: Loof (n.) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.

Rib :: Rib (n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel..

Dousing-chock :: Dousing-chock (n.) One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck..

Straight-lined :: Straight-joint (a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge..

Reem :: Reem (v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

Brattice :: Brattice (n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.

Skin :: Skin (n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing..

Planking :: Planking (n.) The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4..

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

Quickwork :: Quickwork (n.) The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.

Ceiling :: Ceiling (v. t.) The inner planking of a vessel.

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..

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

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel..

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