. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge. Fig. 10. floor fitted to the sides of tiie timbers when theiMtttom of the l)oat is so sharp that the timberscannot be bent round over the keel. in a carvel-built boat the edj,es of the plankmeet as shown by fiy. 10, H. The seams arecaulked with oakum or cott<in, and payed withpitch or marine ii\ue. Uacin;;-boats and canoesare usually carvel-built, but the plank is too thinto admit of caulking, ami a strip of canvas orwoo<l is worke<l over the seams inside. When astrip of wootl is used, the work is termed ribboncarvel (li
. Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge. Fig. 10. floor fitted to the sides of tiie timbers when theiMtttom of the l)oat is so sharp that the timberscannot be bent round over the keel. in a carvel-built boat the edj,es of the plankmeet as shown by fiy. 10, H. The seams arecaulked with oakum or cott<in, and payed withpitch or marine ii\ue. Uacin;;-boats and canoesare usually carvel-built, but the plank is too thinto admit of caulking, ami a strip of canvas orwoo<l is worke<l over the seams inside. When astrip of wootl is used, the work is termed ribboncarvel (lig. 10, C). Boatbill (Catirroma cuchleariu), a bird of theHeron (t|.v.) family, the only known sjiecies of agenus (iitlering from the true herons in little else. Boatbill {Cancroma cochlearia). than the form of the brown bill, which is compara-tively short and very broad, the mandibles resem-bling the bowls of two spoons placed one upon theother, tlie upper mandible overlapping the lo\yer,keeled on its ui>i)er ridge, and hooked at the boatbill is about the size of a domestic fowl,has shorter limbs than most of the herons, butresembles them in i)lumage, and is abundantly pro-vided on the back of the head and neck withelongated featliei-s, which it erects when front parts are white (the crown black in themale), tlie upi)er surface and tail whitish gray, theunh. which seem to be its principal food. Boat-fly (Notonecta), a genus of insects ofthe order Hemiptera (), sub-order Heteroptera,and family Hydrocores, or Water-bugs (). The English name well
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