单词 | spirketting |
释义 | spirkettingn. Nautical. 1. Inside planking between the waterways and the ports of a vessel. (See quots. 1750, 1769.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > internal planking > between waterways and ports spirket risings1711 spirketting1748 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 158 Her spirkiting and timbers were very rotten. 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 156 Spirketing are Strakes of thick Plank wrought from the lower Edge of each Port to each Deck respectively within Side of the Ship. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Spirketting, that range of planks which lies between the waterways and the lower edge of the gun-ports within the side of a ship of war. 1801 Naval Chron. 6 202 Carlings, and sparketting, much damaged by shot. 1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 202 All clamps and spirkittings above the lower gun-deck should have three port shifts in midships. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 69 The spirketting works up so as to form the lower sills of the ports. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 43 The butts of shelf, spirketting, clamps, and waterway should all be carefully disposed with reference to each other. 2. (See quot. 1846.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > internal planking > at uppermost level string1711 spirketting1846 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 291 In merchant vessels, when there is a strake of ceiling wrought between the upper-deck and the plank-sheer, it is called the spirketting, or quick~work. 1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 246/2 Kevels..are some~times fixed to the spirketing on the quarter-deck, when the timber-heads are deficient. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1748 |
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