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gunwale
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gunwale has 1 sense
- gunwale(n = noun.artifact) gun rest, gunnel - wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel; Array is a kind of strake, wale
CIDE DICTIONARY
gunwale, n. [Gun + wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.].
The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gunwale, n. (also gunnel) the upper edge of the side of a boat or ship.
Etymology
GUN + WALE (because formerly used to support guns)
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