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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ship carpentry, one of the horizontal pieces of timber used to brace the frame of a ship during construction. Also
cross-spale .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Shipbuilding) Same as
cross-spale .
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