/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dead Wood
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
in shipbuilding. Blocks of timber laid on the ship’s keel. This is no part of the ship, but it serves to make the keel more rigid.
· ·
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 