navel timbers
Nautical
noun
(In the midships frame of a wooden ship) the timbers immediately above the floor timbers, linking the floor timbers to the futtock. rare. Now historical.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in John Smith.
- secretary
- secretary bird
- secretary general
- Secretary of State
- secretaryship
- secret ballot
- secrete
- secretin
- Secret Intelligence Service
- ignition key
- ignition point
- ignition switch
- ignitron
- ignobility
- ignoble
- ignobly
- ignominious
- ignominiously
- ignominiousness
- ignominy
- ignorable
- ignoramus
- ignorance
- ignorance is bliss
- ignorant