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Upper edge of the hull.
Literally, having cargo loaded as high as the ship's rail. Also used to refer to someone that is very drunk. Also used as "loaded to the gunnels" eg. "Bloggins returned to the ship and he was loaded to the gunnels."
Vertical wooden pegs or pin inserted through the gunwale of a boat to form a fulcrum for oars when rowing.
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A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.
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A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
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A gunwale.
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The gunwale of a ship.
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An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
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A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing.
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The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
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A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.
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A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.
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A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard.
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The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.
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The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
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The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.
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A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
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