spirketing

English

Noun

spirketing (countable and uncountable, plural spirketings)

1. (nautical) The planking from the waterways up to the portsills.

   Synonym: quickwork

   • 1840, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze, Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture:

     At some point on the upper edge of the gun-deck spirketing, a shore, that is, the truss, firmly cleated at its heel , extended upwards and aft

References

• “spirketing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• priest-king