SHELL PLATING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

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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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