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Top-timber. World English Historical Dictionary

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Top-timber. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Top-timber Shipbuilding. One of the uppermost timbers in the side of a ship: see quot. c. 1850. Also attrib.

1 1626.  Capt. Smith, Accid. Yng. Seamen, 8. Then plancke your out-side and inside vp, with your Top timbers.

2 1664.  E. Bushnell, Compl. Shipwright, 20. Marke it on the foot of the Toptimber Mould.

3 1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), C iv b. The top-timbers, which are … united to the floor-timbers.

4 1797.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), 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.

5 c. 1850.  Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 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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