gunwales

• A platform had been set up on poles that fitted into the boat's gunwales, and men were shovelling gravel from the boat's waist up onto the platform, where other men scooped it up and poked spadeful after spadeful into a yard-wide porthole in the side of the ship. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
• From the lofty gunwales, the black pirates drove down a volley of shafts that tore through the quilted jackets of the doomed sailormen, then sprang down spear in hand to complete the slaughter. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
• And, with a wild cheer, some thirty of us leaped the ruins of our parapet and dashed headlong down the steep slope to the little strip of beach where half-a-dozen boats were drawn partly up out of the water To pounce upon those boats, rush them afloat, and then tumble helter-skelter in over the gunwales was the work of seconds only; then, throwing out the oars, away we went for the pirate schooner, keeping well apart, in case of a treacherous resumption of firing on the part of the pirates. —  A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
• Their heavy loads caused them to sink almost to the gunwales, and this the boys noted with serious alarm We must keep along shore," said Clay. —  Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters
• They found a sufficient amount of planking to raise the boat's gunwales, and to put a small deck forward and some lockers aft. —  The Three Admirals

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