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Outboard

Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.

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Portable 84% connected

Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.

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Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.

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Ice 76% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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Screw 70% connected

A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…

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Inboard 94% connected

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

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Inboard 94% connected

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

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Angle noun · 78% connection

The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.

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Block verb · 78% connection

A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an…

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Carinated adjective · 78% connection

Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).

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Channel noun · 78% connection

Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of t…

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Extra- unknown · 78% connection

A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or…

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Fair superl. · 78% connection

Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and…

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Gangway verb · 78% connection

The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: beyond, outside, lines, vessel, bulwarks.
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Garboard noun · 78% connection

One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake.

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Grating noun · 78% connection

A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spect…

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Guard verb · 78% connection

An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves…

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Gunwale noun · 78% connection

The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which…

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Herringbone noun · 78% connection

a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping th…

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Hull verb · 78% connection

To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.

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Keel noun · 78% connection

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…

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Keelson noun · 78% connection

A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron…

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Labor noun · 78% connection

The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

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Loom noun · 78% connection

That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.

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Lorcha noun · 78% connection

A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese j…

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