The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Dry Rot

Sea Terms

A disease to which timber is subject, causing rapid decay.

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2026 Editor's Note: Dry rot is still the wooden boat's (and house's) quiet enemy — a fungus, as this era was just learning, not a mysterious decay. Surveyors still probe for it exactly as 1891 buyers did. See dry rot. (Ed: BR 2026-06-14)

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