sheer-strake

Her upper hull was painted a glossy black from the sheer-strake to just above the waterline, where a thin gold band separated it from the vermilion of the lower hull.

beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

He breathed deeply of the salt spray and fumed, briefly, gazing over the stern's sheer-strake.

beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

She was a most beautiful vessel, lying long and low upon the water, her hull painted all black, from her rail to her copper, relieved only by a single narrow white stripe running along her sheer-strake from her white figure-head to the rather elaborate white scroll-work that decorated her quarter.

A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Harry Collingwood 1886

Then, while we were all standing agape, our ears deafened by the thunder and our eyes blinded by the glare of the lightning, a fierce gust of hot wind swept over us, filling our two staysails with a report like that of a cannon and laying the ship over to her sheer-strake.

A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story Harry Collingwood 1886

So saying, he stepped off the brace-iron, planting his feet firmly on the broad beading which ran along the top edge of the sheer-strake, and leaning his body against the bulwarks, whilst he grasped the outer edge of the rail to steady himself, he speedily and easily reached the mizzen-chains.

The Voyage of the Aurora Harry Collingwood 1886

"Do not fire until I give the word, then pour your broadside in upon her decks -- not a shot below the sheer-strake for your lives."

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

But they were burning and scraping off all her outside paint, from the sheer-strake downward, and I asked the foreman what colour they were going to repaint her.

Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Harry Collingwood 1886

And heeling right over, with three clews in the sail, and the heavy foremost fellow astride on the sheer-strake, with his huge sea-boots dangling in the sea-foam, away they scudded through the blinding spray right into the open sea, amidst the howling and roaring of the wind.

Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

'em below their sheer-strake and they begins to drag and to sag at once.

A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886