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runghead

runghead noun: the upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

Noun

runghead (plural rungheads)

  1. The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

Forms of runghead

pluralrungheads

Origin of runghead

From rung + head.

Questions about runghead

What does runghead mean?
Runghead means the upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
What part of speech is runghead?
Runghead is a noun.
What is the plural of runghead?
The plural of runghead is rungheads.

Words near runghead in the dictionary

  1. Runge's phenomenon
  2. Runge's theorem
  3. Runge-Kutta method
  4. Runge-Kutta methods
  5. runged
  6. runghead
  7. rungheads
  8. rungless
  9. Runglish
  10. rungs
  11. rungu

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