Nautical. plural. The horizontal planks or timbers, broader and thicker than the rest, which extend along a ship's sides, at different heights, from…
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > horizontal timber(s) (5) wale1295 Nautical. plural. The horizontal planks or timbers, broader and thicker than the rest, which extend along a ship's sides, at different heights, from… bend1626 Nautical. plural. ‘The crooked timbers which make the ribs or sides of a ship’ (Johnson); the wales. channel wale1672 A strake (strake, n.1 3a) of thick planks, placed as a reinforcement between the middle- and upper-deck ports in a sailing ship having three decks… main-walea1750 the lower wale (wale, n.1 4). in-wale1875 A wale or rib of wood on the inside of a boat. |
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