stemson

English

Etymology

See stem and keelson, and compare sternson.

Noun

stemson (plural stemsons)

(nautical) A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stemson”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Osments, monests