rising floor
Shipbuilding
noun
1The rise of the bottom of the ship's framing from amidships towards either end.
2One of the floor timbers used to form this.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Shipwright's Vade-mecum.
- atrial natriuretic factor
- atrial natriuretic peptide
- a trifle
- at right angles (or a right angle) to
- atrioventricular
- at risk
- at risk to
- atrium
- atrocious
- atrociously
- atrociousness
- atrocity
- at root
- atrophic
- atrophy
- atropine
- Atropos
- a trouble shared is a trouble halved
- at sea
- at second hand
- ATSIC
- at sign
- Atsina
- at sixes and sevens
- at someone's back