Timberhead: Definition and part of speech

Timberhead

  1. n. The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; — called also kevel head.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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