Meaning of tafferel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A carved panel.
2. The flat upper part of a ship's stern above the transom, often decorated with carvings.
3. The taffrail.

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Examples

“A true Chinese junk is a great curiosity; the model⟳ must have⟳ been taken originally from a bread-trough, being broad and square at both ends—when light⟳, (I speak⟳ of a large one,) it is full thirty feet from the surface of the water to the tafferel, or the highest part of the poop.”

“Yet we should oftener look⟳ over the tafferel of our craft, like⟳ curious passengers, and not make⟳ the voyage like⟳ stupid sailors picking oakum.”

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