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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English gonnewalle, itself from gonne (“gun”) + wale, as it used to support the ship's guns; equivalent to gun + wale.
Pronunciation
Noun
gunwale (plural gunwales)
- The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck.
Derived terms
Translations
top edge of the side of a boat
- Bulgarian: планшир (bg) m (planšir)
- Catalan: borda (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 舷邊/舷边 (xiánbiān), 舷 (zh) (xián)
- Dutch: dolboord (nl) n
- Finnish: reelinki (fi)
- French: plat-bord (fr) m
- German: Dollbord (de)
- Irish: gar-adhmaid m pl, gunail f, slat bhoird f
- Italian: falchetta (it) f
- Japanese: ガンネル (ganneru), 舷 (ja) (ふなべり, funaberi)
- Maori: niao, kāpuku, kāpuku
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ripe (no) m or f, båtripe m or f, esing m or f
- Nynorsk: ripe f, båtripe f, esing m or f
- Polish: reling (pl)
- Portuguese: aposturas f pl, amurada (pt) f
- Russian: планши́р (ru) m (planšír) / планши́рь (ru) m (planšírʹ)
- Spanish: borda (es) f
- Swedish: reling (sv) c
- Thai: แคม (th) (kɛɛm)
- Welsh: gynwal m, gynwalc m
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See also
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967