TAA i.3.1.5

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     which in some instances ends in a blunt points, 

     and in others are curved back and over the at the 

     stem or stern and terminate in an ornamentation, 

     very frequently of the familiar lotus form; or the 

     planking convergent in stem or stern post; or joined 

     together fore and aft by bulkheads filled in.

Bulkhead, upright partition, compartment, stall.

Beam, ships breadth; beams, horizontal cross-timbers of ship 

            supporting deck and joining sides (starboard and larboard 

            = port side). (Sufficient beam to cause stability)

Starboard = right side of vessel looking forward
Port side (larboard) = left-hand side of ship looking forward.

Bulging out of sides
Flattening of the bottom, bottom round, rounded bottom.

Keel piece. Keel proper <or true keel>, lowest longitudinal timber of vessel, 

on which framework of the whole is built up; combination of 

iron plates serving same purpose in iron vessel; false keel, attached 

to bottom of true keel to protect it.