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- noun Plural form of
chainplate .
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Examples
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• New oversized cockpit drains designed and installed and extra chainplates for lower stays fitted
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
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The sails jibed, then crashed back onto starboard tack with a bang that rattled the chainplates.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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Our chainplates, strong fastenings, and clenched bolts, drew like pliant wires, shrouds and stays were torn away, and our masts and spars were blown clean out of the ship into the sea.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910
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Our chainplates, strong fastenings, and clenched bolts, drew like pliant wires, shrouds and stays were torn away like the summer gossamer, and our masts and spars, crackling before his fury like dry reeds in autumn, were blown clean out of the ship, over her bows, into the sea.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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That was quiet, but when the chainplates peeled the deck away, there was a tremendous noise.
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That was quiet, but when the chainplates peeled the deck away, there was a tremendous noise.
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That was quiet, but when the chainplates peeled the deck away, there was a tremendous noise.
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'The chainplates are carbon straps on the hull and I think it has delaminated as there's a crack in the hull around the chainplate,' explains Kleinjans.
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Having had a chance to check the status of his yacht, Kleinjans reported-in at 1200 GMT: 'Part of the bowsprit has gone and the port side hull-deck joint has carbon loose from in front of the chainplates to the end of the forward ballast tank,' explains Kleinjans.
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'The inside joint of the ballast tank is cracked along with the mast bulkhead and the knee just aft of the chainplates.
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