Page 294 of Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia · 12 entries
An iron implement used by shipwrights, having a fang at one or sometimes at each end, to be driven into any piece for supporting it while hewing, etc. Another sort has a fang in one end and an eye in the other in which a rope may be fastened and used to haul anything along.
A shore particularly used in launching.
Planking of ship's bottoms twice. It is sometimes done to new ships when the original planking is thought to be too thin; and in repairs it strengthens the ship without driving out the former fastenings.
A method of coaking by letting pieces into the solid, or uniting pieces together by tenons.
The drawing or design of the ship upon paper, describing the different parts, and from which the ship is to be built. It is mostly drawn by a scale of one-quarter of an inch to a foot, so divided or graduated that the dimensions may be taken to one inch.
The depth of water a ship displaces when she is afloat.
Those pieces in the sheer draught where the rails are cut off.
The foremost spur on the bilgeways, the heel of which is fayed to the foreside of the foremost poppet, and cleated on the bilgeways, and the sides of a stand fore-and-aft. It is now seldom used.
The head of a capstan, formed of semi-circular pieces of elm, which, framed together, form the circle into which the capstan bars are fixed.
A state of decay in timber with white spungy veins, the most deceptive of any defect.
Sawing or hewing it narrower.
Making good a deficiency in the length of any piece by scarphing or butting, as at the end of deck-hooks, cheeks or knees. The ekeing at the lower part of the supporter under the cathead is only to continue the shape and fashion of that part, being of no other service. We make this remark because if the supporter were stopped short without an ekeing it would be the better, as it causes the side to rot; and it commonly appears fair to the eye in but one direction. The ekeing is also the piece of carved work under the lower part of the quarter-piece at the aft-part of the quarter gallery.