spurn-watern.
Nautical.
(See latest quot. 1850.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > channel on deck to carry off water
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1347–9 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 25/32 Spornewaters.
1407 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 44/11 m. 6 In iij peciis maeremii..pro spurnewaters inde faciendis.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Spurn-water, in ships, a channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 151 Spurn-water, a channel left above the ends of a deck to prevent water from coming any farther.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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