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A plank of considerable thickness bolted edgewise to a vessels’s side, nearly abreast of a mast, and serving to extend the shrouds of the lower rigging and keeping them clear of the gunwale.

Keywords

ship, chainwale, channelboard

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Source

William & Robert Chambers Encyclopaedia - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881)

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