Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarph
Literary usage of Scarph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Small Yacht Construction and Rigging by Linton Hope (1903)
"SMALL YACHT CONSTRUCTION AND RIGGING. out a scarph, as not only would the curve,
or "sny," of the plank be too great for the widths of the boards, ..."
2. Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Laying Off and Building Wood, Iron, and by Samuel James Pope Thearle (1876)
"The scarph, which is vertical, varies in length with the scantling of the ...
In setting off the scarph, the points A and D are joined, and the length AD is ..."
3. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1859)
"2 represents a horizontal view of the same, with the faces of the scarph laid
uppermost.—Fig. 3 represents the two pieces jointed, with two flooring timbers ..."
4. Yachts and Yachting: Being a Treatise on Building, Sparring, Canvassing by William Cooper (1873)
"If you must have your keel in two lengths it involves the necessity of a scarph,
or joining ; in such case the method in which tho ..."
5. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"3 broke with scarph-like fracture, 5 inches in length ; 10 broke in three ...
each with scarph of 6 inches ; 7 broke with long splintery fracture ; 8 broke ..."
6. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"3 broke with scarph-like fracture, 5 inches in length ; 10 broke in three pieces,
each with scarph of 6 inches ; 7 broke with long splintery fracture ..."
7. A Manual of Naval Architecture for Use of Officers of the Royal Navy by William Henry White (1900)
"Take the keel, for example, in a wood ship; the adjoining pieces were secured by
what is termed a " tabled scarph." Fig. 135 shows the two parts of the ..."
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