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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A length of thin plank fastened to and projecting above the gunwale of a boat, or of a small, low-sided vessel, to keep out spray by thus increasing the freeboard; a wash-board. A boat's row-locks are cut in the wash-boards.
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