Definition of "tafferel" []

• A carved panel (noun)
• The flat upper part of a ship's stern above the transom, often decorated with carvings (noun)
• The taffrail (noun)

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• "Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum."
• "Accordingly, it had one hundred feet in the beam, one hundred feet in the keel, and one hundred feet from the bottom of the sternpost to the tafferel."
• "Doggerel verse The sailor stood at the tafferel (or taffrail)."