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spirketting Naut. (ˈspɜːkɪtɪŋ) Also 8 spirkit-, 9 spirkitting, sparketting. [app. f. spirket (cf. prec.), var. of spurket.] 1. Inside planking between the waterways and the ports of a vessel. (See quots. 1750, 1769.)1748 Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 158 Her spirkiting and timbers were very rotten. 1750 T. R...
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spurket
† spurket Obs. Also -ett, -it. (See quots.) From one or other of these 17th cent. quots. the word and explanation are copied into subsequent dictionaries, the form being latterly altered to spirket, prob. by association with spirketting.a 1625 Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301), Spurketts are the ...
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quick-work
ˈquick-work Naut. (See quots.)1711 W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 162 Quick-work; that part of a Ship's Sides both within and without Board, above the Channel-wales and Decks. 1730 Capt. W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of the ‘Lyell’ 21 Sept., This morning begun to Caulk the Quick Work on the Quarter ...
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