Definition of Sponsing

1. a platform extending from a ship's deck [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sponsing

spongs
spongy
spongy bone
spongy degeneration
spongy degeneration of infancy
spongy parenchyma
spongy part of the male urethra
spongy spot
spongy substance
spongy urethra
sponsal
sponsee
sponsees
sponsible
sponsing (current term)
sponsings
sponsion
sponsions
sponson
sponsons
sponsor
sponsored
sponsored links
sponsorer
sponsorers
sponsorial
sponsoring
sponsorless

Literary usage of Sponsing

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 (1859)
"... also the inside breadth of the ship, clear of sponsing, if any, at the middle of this depth ; multiply together these three dimensions of length, depth, ..."

2. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1859)
"... also the inside breadth of the ship, clear of sponsing, if any, at the middle of this depth; multiply together these three dimensions of length, depth, ..."

3. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1860)
"... also the inside breadth of the ship, clear of sponsing, if any, at the middle of this depth; multiply together these three dimensions of length, depth, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court in Equity of New Brunswick by New Brunswick Supreme Court in Equity, Walter Harley Trueman, Homer D. Forbes (1899)
"His claims for the Eagle Wing are :— First,—-the twelve-inch sponsing on the sides. Second,—the oscillating power bar. Third,—the circular socket joint. ..."

5. Modern Shipbuilding Terms by Fred Forrest Pease (1918)
"Sponson or sponsing. Reinforcement between the paddle box and the vessel's side, in a paddle-wheel steamer. Sponson beam, spring beam. ..."

6. Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1863)
"... in all other ships ;—also the inside breadth of the ship clear of sponsing, if any, at the middle of the depth; multiply together these dimensions of ..."

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