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spirketting

spirketting is the alternative form of spirketing.

Meaning of spirketing

Noun

spirketing (countable and uncountable, plural spirketings)

  1. The planking from the waterways up to the portsills.
    • At some point on the upper edge of the gun-deck spirketing, a shore, that is, the truss, firmly cleated at its heel , extended upwards and aft1840, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze, Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture
    Synonyms:
    quickwork

Forms of spirketting

pluralspirkettings

Questions about spirketting

What is spirketting the alternative form of?
Spirketting is the alternative form of spirketing.

Words near spirketting in the dictionary

  1. Spirk
  2. spirket
  3. spirketing
  4. spirketings
  5. spirkets
  6. spirketting
  7. spirkettings
  8. spirling
  9. spirlings
  10. spiro
  11. spiro compound

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