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The operation of smoothing away a plank with an adze to make it suitable for use in planking the sides or deck of a wooden vessel under construction. The operation of taking a thin cut with an adze on the side planking of an existing ship in order to examine the condition of the wood was also known as dubbing.
See also shipbuilding.
See also shipbuilding.
Subjects: Maritime History.
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