Shipbuilding. ‘Turning the ends of iron lodging-knees, so that they may hook into the beams’ (A. Young, Naut. Dict., 1846) so as to ease the strain on the necks of the bolts when the vessel rolls.
c. 1850. in Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 111.
1867. in Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.
