Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In shipbuilding, one of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped on the knightheads or inside stuff above the upper deck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Shipbuilding) One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun shipbuilding, archaic One of several pieces
fayed across theapron andlapped in theknightheads .
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chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
"Dousing-Chocks, in shipbuilding, are pieces fayed across the apron, and lapped on the knightheads, or inside stuff above the upper deck."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 126
October 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word dousing-chock
Dousing-chock? You're not pulling my leg, are you?
October 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
You can look it up yourself, if you like. :)
October 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
Oops. Actually you can't, at least not at that link. Here's a site that has scanned pages of the dictionary available digitally. But I can't seem to post a direct link to page 126. Sorry.
October 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word dousing-chock
Never mind. Consider my chock doused.
October 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
Your knightheads lapped?
October 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dousing-chock
Hahaha! Must...memorize...sentence....
Dousing-Chocks, in shipbuilding, are pieces fayed across the apron....
HAHAHA!
October 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
Your pieces fayed?
October 15, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dousing-chock
*looks around*
October 15, 2008
dontcry commented on the word dousing-chock
What's funny to me is, that after all the 'technical' terms, the sentence ends in 'or inside stuff...' !
October 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
Yes. See cheese of wads for more hilarity.
I guess it's not strictly relevant, but I always think of that when I see the word "stuff" now.
October 15, 2008
bilby commented on the word dousing-chock
Oh, my poor knightheads!
October 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
Your inside stuff above the upper deck?
October 15, 2008
bilby commented on the word dousing-chock
Just about to lapp'em, cap'n.
October 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word dousing-chock
But how's your apron? *hopes it isn't like Pro's*
October 18, 2008
reesetee commented on the word dousing-chock
I don't know about bilby's, but mine has pieces fayed across it.
*brushes apron*
October 18, 2008
dontcry commented on the word dousing-chock
I heart Pro's apron!
October 18, 2008