Word Meanings - STERNPOST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.
- Supportress
A female supporter. - STRAIGHTLINED
Having straight lines. - Rudderhole
The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes. - Straightness
The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path. - STRAIGHTOUT
Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. [Colloq. U.S.] Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe. - Rudderless
Without a rudder. - Straight-out
Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. - Timbered
of Timber - STRAIGHTPIGHT
Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] Shak. - Pieceless
Not made of pieces; whole; entire. - Rudderpost
The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other. - Straight-pight
Straight in form or upright in position; erect. - Timbering
of Timber - STRAIGHTSPOKEN
Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. [Colloq. U.S.] Lowell.
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