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spirketting Naut.|ˈspɜːkɪtɪŋ| Also 8 spirkit-, 9 spirkitting, sparketting. [app. f. spirket (cf. prec.), var. of spurket.] 1. Inside planking between the waterways and the ports of a vessel. (See quots. 1750, 1769.)
1748Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 158 Her spirkiting and timbers were very rotten. 1750T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expos. 156 Spirketing are Strakes of thick Plank wrought from the lower Edge of each Port to each Deck respectively within Side of the Ship. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Spirketing, that range of planks which lies between the waterways and the lower edge of the gun-ports within the side of a ship of war. 1801Naval Chron. VI. 202 Carlings, and sparketting, much damaged by shot. 1805Shipwright's Vade-M. 202 All clamps and spirkittings above the lower gun-deck should have three port shifts in midships. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 69 The spirketting works up so as to form the lower sills of the ports. 1874Thearle Naval Archit. 43 The butts of shelf, spirketting, clamps, and waterway should all be carefully disposed with reference to each other. attrib.1869E. J. Reed Shipbuild. xvii. 368 The preceding method..is also applicable to deck tie-plates, clamp or spirketing plates. 2. (See quot. 1846.)
1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 291 In merchant vessels, when there is a strake of ceiling wrought between the upper-deck and the plank-sheer, it is called the spirketting, or quick⁓work. 1850Weale Dict. Terms 246 Kevels..are some⁓times fixed to the spirketing on the quarter-deck, when the timber-heads are deficient. |