breast-hook

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His cargo was to consist of forty-eight "knees" and the breast-hook of the seventy-four.

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  1. One of the thick pieces of timber shaped in the form of knees and placed directly across the stem of a ship, to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. See cut under stem. Her huge bows rose up, showing the bright copper, and her stem and breast-hooks dripping, like old Neptune's locks, with the brine. R.H.Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p.10.

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