snyingn.
/ˈsnʌɪɪŋ/ Shipbuilding.
(See quots.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > upwards curvature > specifically of planks
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > specific kind of timber > temporary frames or planks
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1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 47 As much as possible keep your Work from extream Snying or Cambering.
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 164 Snying, an arching upwards, where the Middle of the Plank appears higher than the Ends.
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) 488/1 Snying, among shipwrights, a term used for a circular plank, edgeways, to work in the bows of the ship.
Derivatives
ˈsnying adj. having an upward curve or sny.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [adjective] > having an upward curve (of planks)
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1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 47 You will likewise be obliged to have snying (or crooked) Planks.
1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (E.D.S.) 48 A stick or bat of timber is said to be a snying piece, when it bends or is somewhat curved.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 149 Snying, a term applied to planks when their edges round or curve upwards.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 152 Its use is to take out the snying edge.
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