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LIMBER-BOARDS
LIMBER-BOARDS, short pieces of plank, which form a part of the ceiling, or lining of a ship's floor, close to the kelson, and immediately above the limbers. They are occasionally removed, when it becomes necessary, to examine, or clear the limber-holes of any filth, sand, chips, or gravel, by which they may be clogged, so as to interrupt the passage of the waters in the ship's floor, to the pump-well.
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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/0814.html