Thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship.
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Examples for "wale"
Examples for "wale"
1Then it was over the wale and onto one of the thwarts.
2Her thighs spread the wale of her brown cords wide.
3As the thought passed through her, she saw on Amy's neck a frightful upswollen wale.
4The Bertrams were ay the wale o' the countryside!
5Argoth reached up with his good hand, grasped the top wale, and swung his leg up.
1But Lionel Flood had a soft strake in him, and India found it out.
2Then, noticing the curved strake, he asked, "How you bend plank?"
3We will strengthen her with additional planks, and get a strake put on above her gunwale.
4Sir Matthew spake no word, but strake his horse with the spurs sorer than he did before.
5Ay, strake and keelson,-asgood a one as though I had got my sap in the Maine forests.
6Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the garboard-strake and barked his shin on the cat-heads.
7This was the first strake.
8This operation discovered, that three feet of the third strake, under the wale, were staved and the timbers within started.
9I'm the garboard strake, and I'm twice as thick as most of the others, and I ought to know something.
10The keel and stem are both in one piece, as shown, and to this the garboard strake is to be fastened.
11The ice-skin is of greenheart, and covers the whole ship's side from the keel to 18 inches from the sheer strake.
12Here spoke a sea-valve that communicated directly with the water outside and was seated not very far from the garboard strake.
13These were secured to the ship with chains and hooks, the latter being inserted through the side lights in her sheer strake.
14Finally he was stricken to the earth, and they cut off his arms and legs and then strake his body all to pieces.
15On stripping off the sheathing, three feet of the third strake under the wale were found to be stove in, and the timbers within started.
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