shifting-boards

This I did by removing a small portion of the shifting-boards in such a manner as to afford me a convenient retreat between the huge timbers of the ship.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

This I did by removing a small portion of the shifting-boards, in such a manner as to afford me a convenient retreat between the huge timbers of the ship.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

Even after all this is done, and unusual pains taken to secure the shifting-boards, no seaman who knows what he is about will feel altogether secure in a gale of any violence with a cargo of grain on board, and, least of all, with a partial cargo.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

If grain loosely thrown in a vessel, then, is ever so well secured by shifting-boards and stanchions, it will be liable to shift in a long passage so greatly as to bring about the most distressing calamities.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

When a partial cargo of any kind is taken on board, the whole, after being first stowed as compactly as may be, should be covered with a layer of stout shifting-boards, extending completely across the vessel.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

"Ay, ay," returned the master, "that was in my upper works, where the doctor could get at it with a plug; but this chap has knocked away the shifting-boards, and I feel as if the whole cargo was broken up.

The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820