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DEAD-RISING, or RISING-LINE of the floor
DEAD-RISING, or RISING-LINE of the floor, (fleurs, Fr.) those parts of a ship's floor, or bottom, throughout her whole length, where the floor-timber is terminated upon the lower futtock. See the article Naval ARCHITECTURE.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 96, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0413.html