Word info

overlaunch

Verb

Meaning

overlaunch (third-person singular simple present overlaunches, present participle overlaunching, simple past and past participle overlaunched)

(shipbuilding, transitive) To run the butts or scarphs of planks or pieces of timber to a certain distance beyond the adjacent ones, in order to strengthen the work.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Close letter words and terms