What is "hooding end"

Hood \Hood\ (h[oo^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooding.]

1. To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.

   The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.
   --Pope.

2. To cover; to hide; to blind.

   While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, ``Amen.''
   --Shak.

   Hooding end (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.