quickwork

English

Etymology

From quick +‎ work.

Noun

quickwork (countable and uncountable, plural quickworks)

1. (nautical, archaic) All of the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
2. (nautical, archaic) The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
3. (nautical, archaic) The short planks between the portholes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “quickwork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)