half-breadth plan

American  

[haf-bredth, -bretth, -breth, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈbrɛdθ, -ˈbrɛtθ, -ˈbrɛθ, ˈhɑf- /

noun

Naval Architecture.

1. a diagrammatic plan of one half of the hull of a vessel divided lengthwise amidships, showing water lines, stations, diagonals, and bow and buttock lines.

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Example Sentences

By laying the cucumber on its side and cutting it lengthwise, you will have a notion of the half-breadth plan.

From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

A narrow plank made to a line formed on the half-breadth plan, by taking the intersections of the diagonal line with the timbers.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

There are three of them,—the sheer plan, the half-breadth plan, and the body plan.

From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various