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CABIN to To CALK, or CAULK
CALL to CANNON
CANNON to CANOE
CANOE to To rig the CAPSTERN
Surge the CAPSTERN to CARPENTER of a ship
CARTEL to CATS-PAW
CAULKING to CHANNEL
CHANNELS to CHEARLY
CHEEKS of the mast to CLINCH
CLINCHER-WORK to COASTING-PILOT
COAT to COLLIERS
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COMPASSING to COVE
COUNTER to CRAWL
CREEPER to CROW-FOOT
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CUTTING-DOWN LINE
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CUTTING-DOWN LINE
CUTTING-DOWN LINE, a curved line used by shipwrights in the delineation of ships: it determines the thickness of all the floor-timbers, and likewise the heighth of the dead-wood, afore and abaft. It is limited in the middle of the ship by the thickness of the floor-timber, and abaft by the breadth of the kelson; and must be carried up so high upon the stem, as to leave sufficient substance for the breeches of the rising timbers. Murray's Ship-building.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 94, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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