upmaking

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noun

Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.

Scrabble 17

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verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of upmake
nounupmaking (usually uncountable, plural upmakings)

plural upmakings

  1. historicaluncountableusuallynauticalPieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.
  2. historicaluncountableusuallymediaThe arrangement of lines into columns or pages.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “upmaking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upmaking.

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