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Bar
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Batten
n . · 78% connection
A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Bicker
noun · 78% connection
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Binding
pl. · 78% connection
The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Bollard
noun · 78% connection
An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Boss
noun · 78% connection
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Carvelbuilt
adjective · 78% connection
Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Cogue
noun · 78% connection
A small wooden vessel; a pail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Deadwood
noun · 78% connection
A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Filling
noun · 78% connection
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 i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Firkin
noun · 78% connection
A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Fish
verb · 78% connection
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Flitch
noun · 78% connection
One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
Futtock
noun · 78% connection
One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked trans…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: long, wooden, fastening, planks, vessel.
