plank-sheer

British

noun

nautical a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel

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Etymology

Origin of plank-sheer

C14 plancher, from Old French planchier, from planche plank, from Latin planca; spelling influenced by _plank ¹ , _sheer ¹

Example Sentences

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Two shots below plank-sheer, abreast of boiler hatch.

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Her plank-sheer amidships was awash, and the water rolling in a green body from starboard to port and back again.

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Such are the wales, the plank-sheer, the garboard-strakes, and the like.

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That strake of planks which is wrought, anchor-stock-fashion, between the water-way and the lower sill of the gun-ports withinside of a ship of war.—Spirkitting is also used to denote the strake of ceiling between the upper-deck and the plank-sheer of a merchantman; otherwise known as quick-work.

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The Woodville rose till her plank-sheer was even with the surface of the water.

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