saxboardn.
Boat-building.
(See quots. 1891, 1898.)
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1857 P. M. Colquhoun Compan. Oarsman's Guide 28 Above all [the straiks] comes the sax-board.
1891 Winn Boating Man's Vade-m. 60 Saxboard or gunwalestrake, the upper~most continuous strake or sideplank in a boat.
1898 A. Ansted Dict. Sea Terms at Gunwale The gunwale strake (in open boats the saxboard) is the uppermost strake of a boat. To it the gunwale is fixed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1857- to depart with
- to depone an oath
- to depone an oath serment
- to deprive a person of
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- to detail on the plane
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