Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- same as
plank-sheer .
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Examples
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The chocks were jerked out, the rail torn off, and the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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The roll was extraordinarily severe, heaving the vessel down to her covering-board; and the great hill of water running silent and in darkness through the sea, so that it could neither be viewed nor heard, made the sickening lurch a dreadful surprise and wonder.
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La Salle and Kennedy swung the boat until her bow pointed due east, leaving her broadsides bearing north and south; and then, excavating a deeper furrow in the hollow between two hummocks, the boat was slid into her berth, and the broken masses of icy snow piled against and over her, until nothing but her covering-board was visible.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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The chocks were jerked out, the rail torn off, and the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held.
Small-Boat Sailing 1917
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The chocks were jerked out, the rail torn off, and the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held.
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The chocks were jerked out, the rail torn off, and the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held.
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The chocks were jerked out, the rail torn off, and the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held.
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The chocks were jerked out, the rail torn off, and the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held.
A Collection of Stories Jack London 1896
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For paring the edge of paper for mending or guarding, take a very sharp knife, and holding the blade at right angles to the covering-board, draw the edge once or twice along it from left to right.
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894
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But our progress was so slow that at noon the derelict was still hull-up to the southward, sunk to the level of her covering-board; and when, after dinner, I returned to the poop and took the glass to search for her, she was nowhere to be seen, although, had she still been afloat, her spars and canvas at least should have been visible above the horizon.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship Harry Collingwood 1886
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