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1. peräparras

tafferel englanniksi

1. A carved panel

2. puhekieltä The flat upper part of a ship's stern above the transom, often decorated with carvings

3. puhekieltä The taffrail

4. 1837, w:Edmund Roberts (diplomat)|Edmund Roberts, Embassy to the eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, during the years 1832-3-4, New York: Harper & Brothers, Chapter XVIII, p. 272, https://books.google.ca/books?id=aSgPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

A true Chinese junk is a great curiosity; the model must have been taken originally from a bread-trough, being broad and square at both ends—when light, (I speak of a large one,) it is full thirty feet from the surface of the water to the tafferel, or the highest part of the poop.

5. 1854, (w), (w), New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, Chapter XVIII, pp. 422-3, https://archive.org/details/walden01thor

Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.

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