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LIMBERS
LIMBERS, or LIMBER-HOLES, (parclosses, Fr.) certain square holes cut through the lower parts of a ship's floor-timbers, very near the keel. Being disposed in a line, parallel to the keel, they form a channel, which communicates with the pumps throughout the whole length of the floor, so that the water which enters by a leak, and would otherwise be intercepted by the timbers, is easily conveyed to the well-room, where the pumps are fixed. Every floor-timber has two limber-holes cut through it, viz, one on each side of the kelson.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 177, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0813.html