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boottopping (medicine)


boottopping


1. The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc, have been scraped off.

2. Sheathing a vessel with planking over felt.

Source: Websters Dictionary