top-timbern.
Shipbuilding.
One of the uppermost timbers in the side of a ship: see quot. 1850. Also attributive.
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1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 8 Then plancke your outside and inside vp, with your Top timbers.
1664 E. Bushnell Compl. Ship-wright 20 Marke it on the foot of the Toptimber Mould.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Architecture The top-timbers, which are..united to the floor-timbers.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 378/1 The top~timber line, is a curve [drawn along the top of the ribs] limiting the height of the ship at each timber.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 156 Top-timbers, the timbers which form the topside: those which reach the tops are called the long top-timbers, and those below..the short top-timbers.
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