Last Updated:2025/11/19

(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

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grave

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obsolete transitive
Japanese Meaning
(船舶関連の古語)船底に付着した藻、いぼ、海草などの付着物を除去し、タールで塗布する作業をすること。
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出航前に経験豊かな乗組員たちは船底のフジツボを取り除き、タールで塗り直した。

present singular third-person

participle present

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