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

Chesses :: Chesses (n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge..

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

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

Plank :: Plank (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board..

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

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

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.

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..

Joist :: "Joist (n.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.

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

Doorstep :: Doorstep (n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

Lumber :: Lumber (n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber..

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