1) Battleship part 2) Boat part 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Gun rest 6) Gunnel 7) Strake 8) Wale 9) Watercraft component 10) Word of purely Anglo origin 11) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 1) Gunnel 
The gunwale (l) is the top edge of the side of a boat. Originally the gunwale was the `gun ridge` on a sailing warship. This represented the strengthening wale or structural band added to the design of the ship, at and above the level of a gun deck. It was designed to accommodate the stresses imposed by the use of artillery. In wooden boats, the.....
upper edge of the side of a ship
upper edge of the side of a ship
• (n.) The upper edge of a vessel`s or boat`s side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.
The upper edge of a boat's sides.
The part of a vessel where hull and deck meet. (Pronounced "gun'l")
(gun'l) Top edge of the sides of an open boat. (from gun wall)
(gun'l) Top edge of the sides of an open boat. (from gun wall)
The upper edge of a boat's sides(gun'l) Top edge of the sides of an open boat. (from gun wall)
Gun'wale noun [ Gun + wale . So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.] (Nautical) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the for...
Gunwale (gun-wale, gunnal or gunnel) is a term employed in shipbuilding for the upper-planking covering the timber-heads round the ship, and also for the timber around the top of a rowing boat which has rowlocks for the oars.
Most generally, the upper edge of the side of a boat.
The upper edge of a boat's sides.
Upper edge of the hull.
[n] - wale at the top of the side of boat
Top edge of the boat where the riggers attach.
gunnel noun wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel
the upper edge of the side or bulwark of a vessel. · the sheer strake of a wooden vessel; the uppermost strake beneath the plank-sheer.
horizontal plank at the top of the hull running the length of the boats cockpit