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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..

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

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

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..

Salt :: Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber..

Filling :: Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..

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

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

Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on..

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

Wringstaff :: Wringstaff (n.) A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.

Thick :: Thick (superl.) Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck..

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

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

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

Syphilide :: Syphering (n.) The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead..

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

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n..

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..

Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..

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