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Webster 1913 Edition


Gunwale

Gun′wale

,
Noun.
[
Gun
+
wale
. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.]
(Naut.)
The upper edge of a vessel’s or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.
[Written also
gunnel
.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Gunwale

GUN'WALE


Definition 2024


gunwale

gunwale

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Noun

gunwale (plural gunwales)

  1. (nautical) The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck.

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  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967