Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GUN'WALE, or GUN'NEL
GUN'WALE, or GUN'NEL, n.
The upper edge of a ship's side; the uppermost wale of a ship, or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the fore-castle, being the uppermost bend which finish the upper works of the hull. Mar. Dict. Encyc.
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