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

Square Tuck

Shipbuilding

A name given to the after part of a ship's bottom when terminated in the same direction, up and down, as the wing transom, and the plank of the bottom end in a rabbet at the foreside of the fashion-piece; whereas ships with a buttock are round or circular, and the planks of the bottom end upon the wing-transom.

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