gun wadding (gunwoding)

The material of which gun-wads are made. IMG:content-2818.png:[blocks in formation] gunwale, gunnel (gun'wal, gun'l), n. [Prop. gunwale, corrupted in sailors' pronunciation to gunnel, formerly also gunnal (cf. trunnel ); so called because the upper guns used to be pointed from it; T K G, G, gunwale; K, keel; 7, thwart. deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend which finishes the upper works of the hull. The gunwale of a boat is a piece of timber going round the upper sheer strake as a binder for its top-work. The first rope going athwart from gunnal to gunnal... bind the boats so hard against the end of the benches that