The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Poppets

Sea Terms

A name sometimes applied to the small pins set into the gunwale of a boat, between two of which the loom of the oar works. Also upright pieces of timber between the vessel's bottom and the bilge ways at the forward and afterends, and which support her in launching.

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