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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