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SHELL PLATING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does shell plating mean?

• SHELL PLATING (noun)
The noun SHELL PLATING has 1 sense:

1. the plates covering the frame of a steel ship and corresponding to the planking of a wooden ship

Familiarity information: SHELL PLATING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SHELL PLATING (noun)

Sense 1

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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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