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gunwale
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Word definitions for gunwale in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He deflected the blow, and the razor edge cut deep into the gunwale of the ship. ▪ He perched himself on the edge of the gunwale and took the two ends of the rope in his hands. ▪ Others leaned over the gunwale watching their ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel [syn: gunnel , gun rest ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunwale \Gun"wale\, n. [Gun + wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.] (Naut.) 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck.
Usage examples of gunwale.
That meant standing in the boat while Cashel floated alongside, then pulling up his outside arm to roll him over the gunwale.
Mistress Kaline, who spent most of every voyage sprawled face down on a grating, close to the gunwale so that she could stick her head over the side whenever another spasm struck her.
So, indeed, if those memoirs were in fact produced, Ecu would be fascinated by how many ways Kenna could find to avoid the simple fact that he was, and had been since he was a baby ballot-box-stuffer, Crooked to the Gunwales.
Well before the seedling was too heavy to ride the remaining hull without sinking it gunwale down, it had become far too bulky for even Keo and the captain together to hoist, regardless of ingenious improvisations of cordage.
When the dinghy was afloat, its flat stern toward the shore, Lamar stood knee-deep in the water, holding the gunwales and looking around us, and I helped Christopher in, also keeping an eye on the water.
Bridgeboro friends and a frantic, shrieking creature whose streaming hair was plastered over his face and who was in a perfect panic of fright as every moment the gunwale of the loggy boat gave with his weight and lowered his head into the water.
Connover aboard and it was in their clumsy progress across the river that one of the gunwales of the already loggy boat had gone under, shipping more water than the craft could carry besides its living occupants.
It was after this adjustment that the sailor, Luge, found himself at an oar, seated beside the gunwale of the longship.
She leaned over the gunwale again, catching her bleached and knotted braids in one hand and retching so horribly that anyone not privy to the situation might be forgiven for believing that a sheep was being slowly and grotesquely strangled.
Our gunwales had been torn away, our single sail had been rent to ribbands, and borne down the stream of the wind.
They scurried to obey, but the fire was spreading swiftly, eating into the stern and dancing along the gunwale, reaching up hungrily towards the furled sails on their outstretched yards.
He gripped the gunwale and waited to discover if the tanist was about to throw him overboard.
Small labor would it be to add thole pins along the gunwales, rework the footings for quick stepping or unstepping of the mast, then lighten them a bit to give more speed and ease of handling.
By the time Tristan returned to the bow, she had unlashed her staff from its mount on the gunwale.
He knelt on the gunwale and lowered the bonito over the side, solicitous as a nursemaid.