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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Land-locked Oklahoma tired of his harpings long before he was transferred to the Ways & Means Committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
But even these harpings did not seem to damage the Couzens popularity in Michigan at first.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harpings in the bow of a vessel are decried as rendering the ship uneasy.—Cat harpings.
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
Not for me the, crowns of gold, Palms, and harpings manifold; Not for erring eye and feet Jasper wall and golden street.
From Religious Poems, Part 1., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier
The harpings of the sweet singer of Israel could not have been more effectual in the dispersal of depression than the steadfast beams of the sun supreme in tropic sky.
From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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