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Carvelbuilt :: Carvelbuilt (a.) Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel..

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams..

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

Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting..

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

Slab :: Slab (n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc..

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..

Weatherboard :: Weatherboard (n.) A piece of plank placed in a porthole, or other opening, to keep out water..

Toed :: Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing..

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

Seam :: Seam (n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc..

Plough :: Plough (n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc..

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

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

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..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

Hood :: Hood (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship..

Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down..

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

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