Word Meanings - BERTHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

Related words: (words related to BERTHING)

• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• PLANKTON
  All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic , a.
• OUTSIDER
  1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• STRAKE
  imp. of Strike. Spenser.
• SHEER
  skirr, AS. scir, OS. skiri, MHG. schir, G. schier, Dan. sk, Sw. skär, 1. Bright; clear; pure; unmixed. "Sheer ale." Shak. Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain. Shak. 2. Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
• PLANK-SHEER
  The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• SHEERLY
  At once; absolutely.
• PLANK
  1. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board. 2. Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer. His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
• SHEERWATER
  The shearwater.
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• OUTSIDE
  1. The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South.
• ABOVE-CITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• ABOVE
  1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• RINGSTRAKED
  Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.
• TABASHEER
  A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• LAPSTREAK; LAPSTRAKE
  Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker- built; -- said of boats.
• UNVESSEL
  To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. Ford.