futtocks

Many of the surviving pieces of the ship were "futtocks" -- curved parts of the frame that were cut from specially selected curved tree limbs, Riess said.

Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site 2010

Many of the surviving pieces of the ship were "futtocks" -- curved parts of the frame that were cut from specially selected curved tree limbs, Riess said.

Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site 2010

Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead.

Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site 2010

Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead.

Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site 2010

Some boats only had a single futtock lying on one side of the frame, whereas others had two futtocks, one on each side.

Seven Rare Canal Boats Found 1998

Those with multiple futtocks attached with multiple bolts were much stronger vessels capable of holding up to rougher use and heavier cargoes than those that had a single futtock nailed onto the frames.

Seven Rare Canal Boats Found 1998

The outer planks inclined slightly outward, like the futtocks of a ship, so that, when they weakened in the fire, the inner weight of earth broke them through.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

But her mamma did not appear to be quite satisfied with this venture; and she sprang over the futtocks, and seized her with one arm as she began to mount them.

Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859

She had twenty-seven of her floors and first futtocks broke, and the Portuguese, in repairing her, had put in seventeen feet of main-keel.

The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth Osler, Edward, 1798-1863 1854

Stretching over the summit of the cliff, he perceived that several of the lower futtocks and timbers still hung together, and showed themselves above water.

Newton Forster The Merchant Service Frederick Marryat 1820