upmaking

noun — 2 senses

upmaking

noun
1

Nautical, Transport Historical, Usually Pieces of plank or timber piled on each other as filling up in building, especially between the bilgeways and ship's bottom, preparatory to launching.

2

Media, Printing, Publishing Historical, Usually The arrangement of lines into columns or pages.

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