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A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel. R. H. Dana, Jr.

To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.

The planking from the waterways up to the port sills. Totten.

rom a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

iting or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.

One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.

The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.

The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.

erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.

in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc. -- Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works. -- Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in dist…

In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.

One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.

An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.

A kind of coarse blanket or garment used by the North American Indians.

nail. -- Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.), the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off. -- Stub twist, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub i…

That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. Stocqueler. Caustic surface, Heating surface, etc. See under Caustic, Heating, etc. -- Surface condensation, Surface condenser. See under Condensation, and Condenser. -- Surface gauge (Mach.), an instrument consist…

rd or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by…

The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.