partners
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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partners, a framework, consisting of stout planks. It was secured to the decks of wooden ships round the holes though which passed the masts or the spindle of the
capstan. This strengthened the deck in these places and assisted in taking the strain when the masts carried a press of sail or the capstan was heaving in some considerable weight.
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