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taffrail

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aaffilrtStarts with TEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the railing around the stern of a ship

Word origin

From either tafferel or aft rail, by false alteration.

Used in a sentence

  • One evening, leaning over the taffrail, I observed a very singular, isolated cloud, to the N.W.
  • […] with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast […]
  • See also citations under tafferel.

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