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• carling
  carling

  noun

  a short fore-and-aft beam running beside a hatchway, mast hole, or other deck opening.
• Carling
  Carling

  noun

  Will ( iam ). born 1965, English Rugby Union player; won 72 caps (1988–97); captained England to three Grand Slams (1991, 1992, 1995)

carling

American  

[kahr-ling] / ˈkɑr lɪŋ /

noun

Nautical.

1. a short fore-and-aft beam running beside a hatchway, mast hole, or other deck opening.

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Carling ¹ British  

/ ˈkɑːlɪŋ /

noun

1. Will ( iam ). born 1965, English Rugby Union player; won 72 caps (1988–97); captained England to three Grand Slams (1991, 1992, 1995)

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carling ² British  

/ ˈkɑːlɪŋ /

noun

1. a fore-and-aft beam in a vessel, used for supporting the deck, esp around a hatchway or other opening

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Etymology

Origin of carling

1350–1400; Middle English < French carlingue < Scandinavian; compare Icelandic kerling keelson, literally, old woman; see carline

Example Sentences

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

"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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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 James I, King of England

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth