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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(nautical) Pertaining to a hood (end of a plank, which fits into the rabbet)..
Show by a sketch how the tenons in the body-post of a screw ship should be placed in relation to the rabbet of the hooden ends. Give the reason for so placing them.
Judging by the greatness of the leake, it must have been some Butt or Hoodens end started her lying swadling with her lee Gunnhill in the Sea, & almost ungovernable by her helm, and that it was impossible to keep her up long enough to get ...
By means of a diver a bad place was found in the after hooden ends, and the vessel was dipped by the head to bring it out of the water.
But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]
Use hooden when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hooden means (nautical) Pertaining to a hood (end of a plank, which fits into the rabbet)..
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Show by a sketch how the tenons in the body-post of a screw ship should be placed in relation to the rabbet of the hooden ends. Give the reason for so placing them.
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