scrieve boardn.
/ˈskriːv bɔːd/, U.S. /ˈskriv ˌbɔrd/ Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding.
A large platform made of planks on which the body plan of a ship or boat is marked out in full size sections, so that the parts can be cut to the proper shape. Cf. scrieving board n. at scrieving n. Compounds.
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scrieve board1869
scrieving board1869
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xx. 429 The name commonly given to these boards by the workmen is the scrive or scriving boards.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 59 When the lines are passed as accurate, moulds or skeleton outlines of them are taken, and thus they get transferred to the ‘scrive-boards’, from which the shipwrights work.
1901 T. Walton Steel Ships vii. 180 He [sc. the loftsman] then transfers from the mould loft floor to the scrieve board the midship section of the vessel... He also scrieves in all decks, stringers, keelsons, and floors.
1957 Technology Apr. 53/2 At a single step the loftsman will become a white collar worker, no longer grubbing about on hands and knees on a dirty floor marking off a life-size scrieve board.
1987 R. M. Steward Boatbuilding Man. (ed. 3) vii. 90 The half-breadths of the deck line and the height of the sheer and rabbet are picked up and transferred to the scrive board.
2010 F. M. Walker Ships & Shipbuilding iv. 181/1 It has been said that as many as forty ships were completed from one scrieve board at the Russell yard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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