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Shipbuilding
The design, construction and maintenance of both commercial and military ships and floating vessels in shipyards or other marine facilities.
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caisson
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A watertight structure used for raising sunken vessels by means of compressed air. Also the floating gate to close the entrance to a dry dock.
fid
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A wood or metal bar used to support the weight of a topmast or a top gallant mast when in position, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel and resting on the trestle ...
sheave
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A wood or metal disk, having a groove around its cylindrical surface to permit a rope or chain to run over it without slipping off and a bushing for bearing on the pin or bolt on ...
shelf
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A wood ship term applied to the fore and aft timber that is fastened to the frames to form a support for the ends of the beams. See clamp.
buoyancy
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Ability to float; the supporting effort exerted by a liquid (usually water) upon the surface of body, wholly or partially immersed in it.
athwart
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Across, from side to side, transverse, across the line of a vessel's course.
waterway bar
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An angle or flat bar attached to a deck stringer plate fanning the inboard boundary of a waterway and serving as an abutment for the wood deck planking.
