spirketing

English

Noun

spirketing (countable and uncountable, plural spirketings)

  1. (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
  • spirketing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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