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- Planking - n. - The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.
- Planking - n. - The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
- Planking - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Plank
- Ceiling - v. t. - The inner planking of a vessel.
- Stringer - n. - A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
- Slice - v. t. - A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- Skin - n. - The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- Loof - n. - The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.
- Straight-joint - a. - In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.
- Quickwork - n. - The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
- Wale - n. - Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
- Boottopping - n. - Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.
- Spirketing - n. - The planking from the waterways up to the port sills.
- Furring - v. t. - Double planking of a ship's side.
- Cleading - n. - The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
- Dousing-chock - n. - One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck.
- Berthing - n. - The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake.