Meanings
nounspirketing (countable and uncountable, plural spirketings)
plural spirketings
- countableuncountablenauticalThe planking from the waterways up to the portsills.
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
1840, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze, Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval ArchitectureSynonyms: quickwork
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe planking from the waterways up to the portsills.
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