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sheathing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sheathing may
refer to:
Copper sheathing, on a
wooden ship's hull to
protect against fouling and...
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Copper sheathing is a
method for
protecting the hull of a
wooden vessel from
attack by shipworm,
barnacles and
other marine growth through the use of...
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Drainable housewraps[clarification needed]
Housewrap is
installed between the
sheathing and the
exterior siding, and is used
behind vinyl, wood clapboards, shingles...
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oriented strand board form the roof deck (also
called the
sheeting or
sheathing) to
support the roof covering.
Heavier under purlins or
purlin plates...
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silver or silver-gilt
sheathing, a job
entrusted to men
called barbaricarii. The
amount of
silver and gold used in the
sheathing was
officially graded...
- (headers) that are
placed and end-nailed
through the
outer studs. Wall
sheathing,
usually a
plywood or
other laminate, is
usually applied to the framing...
- body-centered cubic. Its
original application was as a
replacement for
copper sheathing on the
bottom of boats, as it
maintained the anti-fouling
abilities of...
- pitch, wax, tar, oil,
sulfur and ****nic. In the mid 18th
century copper sheathing was
developed as a
defense against such
bottom fouling.
After coping with...
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bottoms of ships. This
process of
plating ship bottoms,
referred to as “
sheathing” or “coppering”,
helped increase the
speed and
lifespan of ships. Copper...
- wood. A
wooden crate has a self-supporting structure, with or
without sheathing. For a
wooden container to be a crate, all six of its
sides must be put...
