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- n. In ship-building, a metal cleat bolted to the after part of the stern-post, for one of the rudder-pintles to play on.
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Some Ship-building Terms
Ship builders' terms, from stem to stern (these words aren't on the list).
coping, chock, filling, sponson, spale, shore, deck-beam, beam, round-up, shelf, ribband, sny and 248 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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sionnach See bum-calder. Mar 11, 2008
chained_bear "'Do you remember how I stood on the dumb-chalder when Dick Richards and I cleared the Nutmeg's rudder?'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 99
A Sea of Words: A metal cleat bolted to the back of a wooden sternpost for the end of a rudder-pintle to rest on and carry some of the rudder's weight. (180) Mar 10, 2008