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

Setbolt :: Setbolt (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together..

Threshold :: Threshold (n.) The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door..

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.

Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.

Teeter :: Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter..

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

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

Poling :: Poling (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc..

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

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

Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank..

Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning..

Plane :: Plane (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank..

Treenail :: Treenail (n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

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..

Planch :: Planch (v. t.) To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.

Snying :: Snying (n.) A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel..

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

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