rising floor
Shipbuilding
noun
1The rise of the bottom of the ship's framing from amidships towards either end.
2One of the floor timbers used to form this.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Shipwright's Vade-mecum.
- oyster roast
- oyster sauce
- oyster scale
- oyster seed
- oyster shell
- oyster shell scale
- oyster shell veneer
- oyster shell veneering
- oysters Rockefeller
- oyster toad
- oyster tongs
- oyster veneer
- oyster-veneered
- oyster walnut
- oyster wench
- oyster white
- oyster wife
- oyster woman
- oystery
- oy veh
- oy vey
- oz
- ozaena
- ozaenous
- Ozalid