Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Dead Wood

in shipbuilding. Blocks of timber laid on the ship's keel. This is no part of the ship, but it serves to make the keel more rigid.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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