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The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

Planking to support a roof or wall.

The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with.

The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

e, a. -- Diagonal built (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer skin of two layers of planking, making angles of about 45º with the keel, in opposite directions. -- Diagonal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Diagonal molding (Arch.), a chevron or zigzag molding. -- Diagonal rib. (Arch.) See Cross-springer. -- Di…

One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Double planking of a ship's side.

rt that chokes them. Totten. -- Limber strake (Shipbuilding), the first course of inside planking next the keelson.

The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.

All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.

To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them. Reeming iron (Naut.), an iron chisel for reeming the seams of planks in calking ships.

The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing. Skin friction, Skin resistance (Naut.), the friction, or resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel. -- Skin gr…

ke implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

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

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

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

Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.