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midship Naut.|ˈmɪdʃɪp|
[f. mid a. + ship.]
The middle part of a ship or boat.
1555Act 2 & 3 Ph. & Mary c. 16 §7 Any Wherry..which shall not be..iv. Foot and a Half broad in the Midship. a1618Raleigh Royal Navy 33 It is a great weakening to a ship to have so much weight..at both the ends, and nothing in the Mid-ship. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 31 A singer that stood upon the bridge across the mid-ship.
b. The rower who sits in the middle of a boat.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 173 Midship backed and flapped like fury.
c. Comb.: midship beam (see quots.); midship bend, = midship frame; midship body (see quot.); midship frame, that timber or frame in a ship which has the greatest breadth; midship port, a porthole in the middle part of a ship.
1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xv. 122 The breadth upon the *Midship-beam 20 foot. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 95 The Midship-Beam is the longest beam of the ship, lodged in the mid ship frame, or between the widest frame of timbers.
1805Shipwright's Vade-M. 117 *Midship-bend or frame, that bend which is called Dead-Flat.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. s.v. Midship-bend, When the middle of the ship has a portion of a uniform cross-section, such is called the *midship body.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) C 2 b, The most capacious of these represents what is called the *midship-frame.
1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xxx, Two of the *midship ports of the antagonist were blown into one. |