spirketing
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]spirketing (countable and uncountable, plural spirketings)
- (nautical) The planking from the waterways up to the portsills.
- Synonym: quickwork
- 1840, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze, Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture:
- At some point on the upper edge of the gun-deck spirketing, a shore, that is, the truss, firmly cleated at its heel , extended upwards and aft
References
[edit]- “spirketing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.