Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sypherjoint .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Carp.) The lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.
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- noun In
carpentry , thelapping ofchamfered edges ofplanks to make asmooth surface, as for abulkhead .
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chained_bear commented on the word syphering
"... in shipbuilding the act of lapping one edge of a plank over the edge of another for bulk-heads, making the edges of the plank, and also the sides of the bulk-heads, plain surfaces."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 519
October 12, 2008