waist-treen.
/ˈweɪs(t)triː/, U.S. /ˈweɪs(t)ˌtri/ Nautical.
(See quot. 1846.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > bulwark > spar placed where there is no bulwark
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1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 50 Wast trees..ij.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 9 The Waist boords are set vp in the Ships waist, betwixt the Gun-waile and the waist trees.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Wast-Trees, are those Timbers of a Ship which lie in the Waste.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Waist-Tree or Rough-Tree, a spare spar placed along the side of a ship's waist where there happens to be no bulwark, in order to protect persons from falling overboard.
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