Crossword-Solution: GUNWALE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gunwale | n. | The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “GUNWALE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Battleship part | 1 answer |
| Canoe rim | 1 answer |
| Ship lip | 1 answer |
| Topmost planking of a wooden vessel | 1 answer |
| Topmost planking of a wooden vessel's hull | 1 answer |
| Upper edge of a boat's side. | 1 answer |
| Where topsides meet a deck | 1 answer |
| Where the hull meets the deck | 1 answer |
| Upper edge of ship’s side | 1 answer |
| Upper edge of a ship's side. | 2 answers |
| gunnel | 3 answers |
| BOAT PART | 14 answers |
| BOAT, part of | 31 answers |
| Edge | 67 answers |
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Sentences with GUNWALE (5)
Almost coincidentally with my first apprehension of the noise, my hand shot out across the boat’s side, and a second later I felt my fingers gripping the gunwale of another craft.
Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.
While Ned Land, clinging to the bows, belaboured the gigantic animal with blows from his harpoon, the creature’s teeth were buried in the gunwale, and it lifted the whole thing out of the water, as a lion does a roebuck.
They clambered on board by the ladder; Thorgils dragged the bridegroom out to the gunwale, and Cormac cut him down then and there.
The floating light being very buoyant, was so quick in her motions that when those who were about to step from her gunwale into a boat, placed themselves upon a cleat or step on the ship’s side, with the man or rail ropes in their hands, they had often to wait for some time till a favourable opportunity occurred for stepping into the boat.
Quotes with GUNWALE (2)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).