SHIP BUILDING TERMINOLOGY
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The forward edge of the stem or of a vessel that which divides the water right
Cutwater.
bow
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and left. It is fayed to the forepart of the stem. Deadnwod. The lower member of the stem or
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stern on the inboard side of a boat also the solid mass of built-up timbers at the narrow portions ;
of the extremities of a ship's frame, fore
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above the keel, and continued as high as the cutting-down line. In vessels designed for service in arctic waters, the deadwood is in unusual quantity, to give solidity to a structure liable to contact with ice-floes and drifts. Dead'ivorks. -The parts of a vessel above the load water line. Deck. Any floor in a ship above the bottom of the hold. Decks may run from stem to stern, or be only partial. In three-decked ships the decks above the water-line are known as the upper, main, and lower decks. The deck next below the waterline is known as the orlop deck. The upper may be known as the spar deck, with the forecastle as its foremost part and the quarter deck aft. The waist is the space amidships. A transverse deck extending across the middle of the vessel is called either a hurricane-deck, a bridge-deck, or the bridge. Detached structures on a deck are called aft,
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deck-houses.
Deck-transom.
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horizontal timber under a
ship's counter.
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Diagonal. 1. A timber brace, knee, plank, truss, crossing a vessel's timbers transversely.
etc.,