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scrive board

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[skrahyv, skreev] / skraɪv, skriv /

noun

Shipbuilding.

  1. a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.

Etymology

Origin of scrive board

1865–70; scrive, variant of scribe 2

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