Some piece of timber in the structure or fittings of a vessel.

An upright bar, stay, prop or support. Shipbuilding.

Shipbuilding. A strong internal timber in a ship (see quots.).

Nautical. A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads, etc. Cf. cant-piece at sense 4a.

Nautical. An upright piece of timber (see quot. 1850). Obsolete.

that timber or frame in a ship that has the greatest breadth; the midship-bend).

Nautical: bees, bee-blocks, bee-seating; see quot.

(see quot.).

A long beam of wood in a boat (see quot. 1894).