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Driftpiece :: Driftpiece (n.) An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail..

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc..

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

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..

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

Petard :: Petard (n.) A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded..

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

Rotten :: Rotten (a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone..

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..

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..

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

Planked :: Planked (imp. & p. p.) of Plan.

Plancher :: Plancher (n.) A floor of wood; also, a plank..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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