harpings
Britishplural noun
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nautical wooden members used for strengthening the bow of a vessel
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shipbuilding wooden supports used in construction
Etymology
Origin of harpings
C17: perhaps related to French harpe cramp iron
Example Sentences
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But even these harpings did not seem to damage the Couzens popularity in Michigan at first.
From Time Magazine Archive
Land-locked Oklahoma tired of his harpings long before he was transferred to the Ways & Means Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Diagonals are the several lines on the draughts, delineating the station of the harpings and ribs, to form the body by.
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 Sir Edward Belcher
Think of the stranger at the isle, And think upon the harpings slow That presaged this approaching woe!
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
Here's yon curst lubberly craft carried away our starboard cat-head and six-feet o' the harpings wi't, sink him!
From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol
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