To board, cover or make up with boards. (Chiefly in Shipbuilding.) See berthing, n.2

transitive. Chiefly Shipbuilding. To make even or smooth; to fit together so as to present a uniform surface. Also intransitive. Now only in…

Nautical. To line (a ship, or a compartment in a ship). Cf. ceiling, n. 4b.

Nautical. (See quots.)

transitive. Shipbuilding. To fit the outer covering of planking or plating to (a vessel). Frequently with up. Chiefly in passive. Cf. skin, n.…

Nautical. To make a ‘score’ or groove in; to fix by means of a ‘score’.

Shipbuilding and Boatbuilding. transitive. To shape (a timber) by the use of a mould (mould, n.3 10b).

transitive. To secure (a frame, a boat, etc.) with ribbands. Also with out, up.

spec. To strengthen (a gun) by additional thickness of metal. Cf. fortification, n. 5c. Also, to strengthen (a ship) for especial emergency, by…

Shipbuilding. To adjust (the frame of a ship) so as to be at right angles to the line of the keel.

transitive. To fix (ship-frames) at the proper breadth by means of cross-spalls.

transitive. Hence, in many technical uses in Manufacturing. Shipbuilding. (a) To reduce (timber) from the rough state into pieces of nearly the…