gunwale in English

noun
1
the upper edge of the side of a boat or ship.
Installation was neat and tidy, cables and steering being run down each side of the boat under respective gunwales and thence into the centre console.
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1. Before him the gunwale of a boat, sunk in sand.

2. But his low gunwale ground against the heavy craft, and the remain - ing correspondent Clambered aboard

3. Rotation ( near hip ), inside shoulder above the gunwale, armpit away from head.

4. Others leaned over the gunwale watching their own reflections ripple over the black water.

5. He heard the stick break and the to rush out over the gunwale of the skiff.

6. The boy jerked them in over the gunwale, his father giving an unnecessary push from underneath.

7. He deflected the blow, and the razor edge cut deep into the gunwale of the ship.

8. With the two of them on board, the stern dipped until the gunwale was inches above the water.

9. He heard the stick break and the line begin to rush out over the gunwale of the skiff.

10. 29 He heard the stick break and the line begin to rush out over the gunwale of the skiff.

11. He perched himself on the edge of the gunwale and took the two ends of the rope in his hands.

12. I remembered being very careful never to rub my paddleagainst the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral.

13. Hauled stark over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his green grave, his leprous nosehole snoring to the sun.

14. 20 Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.

15. The Coaming pads are light cushions that sit just under the gunwale in the cockpit and protect your thighs when battling big-game fish

16. After that he settled the line across his shoulders in a new place and held it again with his left hand resting on the gunwale.

17. There was nothing there but a weather-beaten, gunwale-splintered launch, with, Amidships, an unboxed petrol engine that seemed to be a solid block of rust.

18. In the darkness he loosened his sheath knife and taking all the strain of the fish on his left shoulder he leaned back and cut the line against the wood of the gunwale.

19. White wave was the only object that could be made out except for two young foreigners who were talking, with the man standing and the lady bravely sitting on the gunwale in the deck edge.

20. He was still bearing the pull of the fish across his shoulders but he placed his left hand on the gunwale of the bow and confided more and more of the resistance to the fish to the skiff itself.

21. Installing the Breasthook-25-Installing the long Seat Risers-26-Floor Supports and Long Seats-27-Seat Knees and Riser Fillets-28-Fillets and Tape on Risers and Supports-29-Gunwale Caps-30-Floorboards-31-Installing the Seats-32-Planking the Transom-33-Installing the Seats and Oarlocks-34-