upperworks

In a section called upperworks, a term unfamiliar to me, a chock is called a fairlead, the function of a hank is not clear, nor is that of a turnbuckle, and what we on the East Coast call a jam cleat is identified as a "clam cleat."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1 1987

Carla, sorry to forget to come back on this, I just meant that your point about the unknown upperworks was very sound and perfectly illustrated by the stave-church.

Thatched barns and stave churches: the possibilities of Anglo-Saxon timber architecture Carla 2009

Big iron upperworks rose out of this headlong structure, and from that twin funnels projected and spat a smoking blast shot with fire.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Then suddenly, as we approached Kew, came a number of people running, and the upperworks of a Martian fighting-machine loomed in sight over the housetops, not a hundred yards away from us.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

At the same time, far away in the southeast the masts and upperworks of three ironclads rose one after the other out of the sea, beneath clouds of black smoke.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Normally, even in the darkness, wind, snow, and hail, any decent sailor could scramble another sixty feet higher into the upperworks and rigging here until he reached the mainmast cross-trees, from which point he could hurl down insults at his stymied pursuer like a chimpanzee in a tall tree throwing down fruit or feces from a point of perfect safety.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Despite the fact that the line was ice-covered and blowing in the snow and despite the fact that Thomas Blanky could no longer feel the fingers on his right hand, he climbed the ratline like a fourteen-year-old midshipman larking in the upperworks with the other ship's boys after supper on a tropical evening.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Thomas Blanky moved like the monkey he'd been as an unrated boy of twelve who thought the masts, sails, lines, and upperworks 'rigging of the three-masted warship on which he shipped had all been constructed by Her Majesty solely for his enjoyment.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Then suddenly, as we approached Kew, came a number of people running, and the upperworks of a Martian fighting-machine loomed in sight over the housetops, not a hundred yards away from us.

The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005

And there was no upperworks rigging to which a man could flee.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007