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DOUSINGCHOCK
Dous"ing-chock`, n. (Shipbuilding)
Definition: One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BOORISH
(adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; “was boorish and insensitive”; “the loutish manners of a bully”; “her stupid oafish husband”; “aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”
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