car|ling

car|ling
car|ling «KAHR lihng», noun.
one of the short fore-and-aft timbers between deck beams in the framework of a ship's deck.
[apparently < French carlingue mast socket < Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic kerling); see etym. under carline1 (Cf.carline)]

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