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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In wood ship-building, a large ring-bolt or eye-bolt used in conjunction with a wring-staff to force the outside planking into position in building a vessel. Also called
wrain-bolt .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Shipbuilding) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with
ringbolt .
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