carling
noun
a short fore-and-aft beam running beside a hatchway, mast hole, or other deck opening.
carling
American
[kahr-ling]
/ ˈkɑr lɪŋ /
noun
Nautical.
Carling
1
British
/ ˈkɑːlɪŋ /
noun
carling
2
British
/ ˈkɑːlɪŋ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of carling
1350–1400; Middle English < French carlingue < Scandinavian; compare Icelandic kerling keelson, literally, old woman; see carline
Example Sentences
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But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the morrow said the King; "Finished now from keel to carling; Never yet was seen in Norway Such a wondrous thing!"
From Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Judges ought to beware to condemne any, but such as they are sure are guiltie, neither should the clattering reporte of a carling serue in so weightie a case.
From Daemonologie. by King of England James I
"Come and see my ship, my darling" On the morrow said the King; "Finished now from keel to carling; Never yet was seen in Norway Such a wondrous thing!"
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Sterling Point,” which is set on a fictional Muskoka island with that name, was filmed on Lake Muskoka, Lake Rosseau and Lake Joseph, near the towns of Bala and Port Carling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The RFU council - famously described by then England captain Will Carling in 1995 as "57 old farts" - is in the process of being reformed.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
"I didn't play in the 2006 Carling Cup final, I didn't even come on, and that was a disappointing moment for me," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2024
This new Oasis scene seems to feature fewer blokes with sideburns, baggy nylon football shirts and those loud burps that follow swiftly-downed cans of Carling.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
Harry Carling would have liked to enter the Law School; but being debarred, for obvious reasons, from practising law, he had chosen engineering.
From Concerning Sally by William John Hopkins
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