A gunwale or uppermost edge of a ship's side; the rail or reinforcing timber running along the top of a ship's hull.
Variant or dialectal spelling of gunwale (from gun + wale). The 'giin' variant represents regional pronunciation and spelling traditions in nautical English.
Giinwale shows how the same nautical term fractured into multiple spellings and pronunciations across different English-speaking ports—shipbuilders in one town might say it completely differently.
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