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SHELL PLATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The plates covering the frame of a steel ship and corresponding to the planking of a wooden ship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("shell plating" is a kind of...):
plate; scale; shell (a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners))
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