Page 326 of Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia · 9 entries
Upright parts of wood or iron placed so as to support the beams of a vessel. Also upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the sides of a vessel, to support the bulwarks and rail, and reaching down to the bends, by the side of the timbers to which they are bolted. Also any fixed upright support.
A name given to the foremost or aftermost plank, in a strake which drops short of the stem and stern-post, and of which the end or butt nearest the rabbet is worked very narrow, and well forward or aft. Their use is to take out the snying edge occasioned by a full bow or sudden circular buttock.
The main timber at the fore part of the ship, formed by the combination of several pieces, into a circular shape, and erected vertically to receive the ends of the bow-planks, which are united to it by means of a rabbet. Its lower end scarphs or boxes into the keel, through which the rabbet is also carried, and the bottom unites in the same manner.
A piece of compass timber, wrought on the aft part of the apron withinside, the lower end of which scarphs into the keelson. Its upper end is continued as high as the middle or upper deck, and its use is to succor the scarphs of the apron, as that does those of the stem.
The steps into which the heels of the masts are fixed, are large pieces of timber. Those for the main and fore masts are fixed across the keelson, and that for the mizzen mast upon the lower deck beams. The holes or mortises into which the masts step, should have sufficient wood on each side to accord in strength with the tenon left at the heel of the mast, and the hole should be cut rather less than the tenon, as an allowance for shrinking.
The pieces of quartering, with mouldings, nailed to the sides amidship, about nine inches asunder, from the wale upwards, for the convenience of persons getting on board.
The strong frame of timber, composed of the stern-post, transoms and fashion-pieces, which form the basis of the whole stern.
The principal piece of timber in the stern frame on which the rudder is hung, and to which the transoms are bolted. It therefore terminates the ship below the wing-transom, and its lower end is tenoned into the keel.
The elevation of a ship's cathead or bowsprit; or the angle which either makes with the horizon, generally called steeve.