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wrain-bolt
† wrain-bolt variant of ring-bolt. Also † wrain-stave, a staff for inserting in an eye of this.1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expos. 17 Wrain Bolts. [Each] has a ring at one End for a Staff to go through, [etc.]. Ibid. 190 Wrain Staves are a Sort of thick Billets, tapered so at each End that they may go...
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wring-bolt
† wring-bolt obs. erron. f. ring-bolt.1815 Burney Dict. Marine, Wring-bolts,..in ship-building, are bolts used to bend and secure the planks against the timbers. [Hence in Crabb (1823) and later Dicts. Cf. wrain-bolt.]
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stower
▪ I. stower, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. (ˈstaʊə(r)) Forms: 4 sture, 4–5 store, 4–5, 9 stoure, 5 staure, stourre, 5–9 stowre, 6 stoowre, stowir, 6–9 stour, 8 stowr, 7– stower. [a. ON. staur-r, stake.] 1. A stake, hedge-stake; a pale; a pole, post. stower-and-daub: = wattle and daub (see daub n.1) † stick an...
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