gunwale 的定义
Nautical.
- the upper edge of the side or bulwark of a vessel.
- the sheer strake of a wooden vessel; the uppermost strake beneath the plank-sheer.
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- Amy, who was strong and quick, reached over the gunwale of the canoe and seized upon the crooked figure.
- We went on board the Danish ship, for there was not enough sea to prevent our lying gunwale to gunwale for a moment.
- On either side of the gunwale aft is fitted a brass crutch for supporting the main boom when the vessel is at anchor (fig. 21).
- Then passed rafts of wood interminably long, and barges loaded to the gunwale, and nearly sinking under water.
- Déruchette heard the sound of the boat-hook among the shingle, and the step of the man on the gunwale of the boat.