Qué (quién) es taffrail - definición
Taffrail
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![Vasa]]'' looking aft toward the sterncastle, with a hand carved taffrail](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vasa-weather deck view.jpg?width=200 "Vasa]]'' looking aft toward the sterncastle, with a hand carved taffrail")
.jpg?width=200 "Gdańsk \"Lew\" a seventeenth century galleon replica, stern with wooden carved taffrail")
![[[Prins Willem]] stern with wooden carved taffrail](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sail amsterdam 05 stern prins willem.jpg?width=200 "[[Prins Willem]] stern with wooden carved taffrail")
![Star of India]] stern taffrail](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Star of India stern 1.JPG?width=200 "Star of India]] stern taffrail")
HANDRAIL AROUND THE OPEN DECK AREA TOWARD THE STERN OF A SHIP
·noun The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
taffrail
HANDRAIL AROUND THE OPEN DECK AREA TOWARD THE STERN OF A SHIP
n.
[Written also Tafferel.] Stern-rail.
taffrail
HANDRAIL AROUND THE OPEN DECK AREA TOWARD THE STERN OF A SHIP
¦ noun a rail round a ship's stern.
Origin
C19: alt. (by assoc. with rail1) of obs. tafferel 'panel', used to denote the flat part of a ship's stern above the transom, from Du. tafereel.
Wikipedia
Taffrail
In naval architecture, a taffrail is the handrail around the open deck area toward the stern of a ship or boat. The rear deck of a ship is often called the afterdeck or poop deck.
