car·ling 
(kärlĭng, -lĭn)
(kärlĭng, -lĭn)n.
One of the short timbers running fore and aft that connect the transverse beams supporting the deck of a ship.
[Middle English, from Old French calingue and from Old Norse kerling, old woman (Old French, from Old Norse).]
- double-knit
- double negative
- doubleness
- double-park
- double-parker
- double play
- double pneumonia
- double possessive
- double-quick
- doubler
- double reed
- double-reed
- double refraction
- double replacement
- double reverse
- double rhyme
- double salt
- double sharp
- double-space
- doublespeak
- double standard
- double star
- double-stop
- doublet
- double-take