Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Timber or a timber of a bent or angular shape, suitable for making a knee in ship-building, etc. See
knee , 3. - noun In a railroad-car, a deep platform-sill, cut away to embrace the end-sill.
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Examples
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A vast shed, that has doubtless looked ready to fall for these dozen years, spreads over half the entrance to the wharf, and is filled with spars, knee-timber, and planks of fragrant wood; its uprights are festooned with all manner of great hawsers and smaller ropes, and its dim loft is piled with empty casks and idle sails.
Oldport Days 1873
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A vast shed, that has doubtless looked ready to fall for these dozen years spreads over, half the entrance to the wharf, and is filled with spars, knee-timber, and planks of fragrant wood; its uprights are festooned with all manner of great hawsers and smaller ropes, and its dim loft is piled with empty casks and idle sails.
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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