Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarphed
Literary usage of Scarphed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Description of the Largest Ship in the World, the New Clipper Great Republic by Duncan McLean (1853)
"In a few words, she is square fastened and edge bolted throughout, on the inside,
and scarphed and keyed in all her ceiling. The whole bilge is double ..."
2. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by Bibber Webster, J. L. Bates, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"In wood ships, it is composed of as long pieces of timber as can be obtained,
which are scarphed together at their ends. In steel vessels it is composed ..."
3. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"... they are all cut off below the deck, light 4^-inch or 5-inch angle bars being
substituted and scarphed down on to the heavy frames below (Plate 113A). ..."
4. Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance : a Manual for Shipbuilders by Thomas Walton (1908)
"... into each of which the sides of tho trunk are scarphed. The height of the
trunk is about 7 ft.—that is, the height of poop, bridge, and forecastle—with ..."
5. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"The opposite to the stem; scarphed into the keel, and suspending the rudder.
In steam-ships, where a screw is fitted, it works between this and an after ..."
6. The Control of Water as Applied to Irrigation, Power and Town Water Supply by Philip à Morley Parker (1913)
"The splices in the round straps shall be scarphed joints,extending ... The under
strap at the lap must be scarphed, or thinned by machinery, without being ..."
7. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"The keel is generally of flat bar-iron—sometimes in several thicknesses —the
different lengths being scarphed at the ends and riveted together, or sometimes ..."
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