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Sledge :: Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled..

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

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

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

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

Spike :: Spike (v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks..

String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Straight-lined :: Straight-joint (a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge..

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.

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..

Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship..

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface..

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

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

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..

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

Touch :: Touch (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters..

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

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

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

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