Lexicographical Neighbors of Spilings
Literary usage of Spilings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1883)
"Bits of the spilings remained nailed to the side of the sill here and there. ...
Those are the spilings, and they help hold the sill in place. ..."
2. Directions for Laying Off Ships on the Mouldloft Floor: With Some by John Fincham (1840)
"Instead of setting the spilings down below a batten, as before described, what
is called a span, M, is sometimes used, which is made of three pieces of ..."
3. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"If it falls short of the edge, spilings may be taken; but, if accuracy is ...
The edges are transferred by setting off the spilings noted on the template, ..."
4. Small Yacht Construction and Rigging by Linton Hope (1903)
"It will be found that in some places it is several inches away from the edge of
the plank; so that the spilings, if taken with compasses as before, ..."
5. Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Laying Off and Building Wood, Iron, and by Samuel James Pope Thearle (1876)
"... in the best position to aid conversion; transfer these spots to the plank,
and set off the spilings from the respective spots, measuring from the edge ..."
6. Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Naval Architecture: Being the Article by Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1841)
"We may observe, that instead of the spilings being marked on the mould, brackets
are sometimes nailed on the mould, corresponding to the ..."
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