surmark

English

Alternative forms

sirmark

Etymology

Noun

surmark (plural surmarks)

(shipbuilding) A mark made on the moulds of a ship to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “surmark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)