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Definition of Kelsons
1. kelson [n] - See also: kelson
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kelsons
Literary usage of Kelsons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"She has seven kelsons made of white-oak timber, fourteen inches wide and
three-and-a-half feet high. The bed timbers of her engine are of white-oak four or ..."
2. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low, Publishers' Circular, Sampson Low, Son and Marston (1891)
"(PJ) Ministering Servants : Manual for Choristers ft Servers, 32o,Is Mowbray
Ш'" (R.) Adventurous Boat Voyages, post 8vo, 3s kelsons - Young ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1865)
"The entire machinery is upheld and retained in place by these kelsons ; girders
... The cylinders are bolted directly to the wrought-iron kelsons mentioned ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1866)
"The entire machinery is upheld and retained in place by these kelsons ; girders
... The cylinders are bolted directly to the wrought-iron kelsons mentioned ..."
5. Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review (1855)
"Life-Boat Steamers—Iron kelsons and Bulkheads. the part upon which this strain
... It must be quite apparent that wooden kelsons, made up of several lengths ..."
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