coamingn.
/ˈkəʊmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkoʊmɪŋ/ Nautical.
a. In plural: The raised borders about the edge of the hatches and scuttles of a ship, which prevent water on deck from running below.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Aileures, two beames that runne along the hatches of a shippe, and with the Trauersins make a long square hole, whereat the ship-boat is let downe into the hold; our ship-wrights name them, Comings, or Carlings.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 The hatches, the hatches way, the holes in the commings.
1763 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 629 Lightning, which..made several holes between the coomings of the hatches and the deck.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. xi. 206 Sitting down on the coombings [1838 coamings] of the hatchway.
1865 Daily Tel. 14 Apr. With combings and finishings of hard pine.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxv. 188 Flying along with the wind abeam, and the water up to the coamings of the well.
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b. coaming-carlings: ‘those timbers that inclose the mortar-beds of bomb-vessels, and which are called carlings, because they are shifted occasionally. Short beams where a hatchway is cut’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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