Definition of Gunwele
Gun"wale (?), n. [Gun +
wale. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.]
(Naut.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the
uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece
of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the
forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works
of the hull. [Written also gunnel.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (nautical) the top edge of the side of a boat.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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