ˈdead-ˈrisingn.Nautical ‘those parts of a ship's floor or bottom, throughout her whole length, where the floor-timber is terminated upon the lower futtock’ (Falconer, Mar. Dict. 1830).
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1664 E. BushnellCompl. Ship-wright 10 Then I set off the Dead Rising.
1691 W. PettyTreat. Naval Philos. in T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 120 The..Stern-post, and Dead-rising up the Tuck.