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Coaming

noun
1.
A raised framework around a hatchway on a ship to keep water out.





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"Coaming" Quotes from Famous Books



... tired of taking nothing on my big line, I thought I would coil it up and examine the bait, but when I had got the line straight up and down it refused to leave the bottom, tug as I would. I pulled till my canoe danced and bobbed about in an alarming manner, in fact, till the coaming was in danger of going under the gently heaving sea, but to no purpose; it would not budge, so tripping anchor I paid out line and paddled fifty yards, thinking that if my hook had fouled a rock I might by a side pull clear it. I hauled in gently, and to my surprise found the line come in with a ...
— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling


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