† weyrn.
Obsolete.
Some piece of timber in the structure or fittings of a vessel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > other framing or supporting timbers
weyr1296
stanchiona1626
sleeper1626
cant1794
newel1831
dead-flat1850
bee-seatingc1860
truss-piece1867
wiver1894
1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/20 m. 2 b In xiiij lignis de longitudine .l. pedum emptis..ad Weyres.
1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/20 m. 3 b In duobus Weyris ad Bargiam emptis de Henrico de Wermue.
1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/20 m. 4 b In Weyris Spurchis et aliis emendacionibus factis in Galea et Bargia.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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