Terminology from the Age of Sail

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Mould-Loft: A large building where the full-size lines of a ship could be laid-out.
Mould: A thin length of wood or template used to form the patterns from which the timbers of the frames are shaped. A convex timber mould would be called a bend-mould and a concave mould a hollow-mould (timbers adjacent to the keel or at stern and bow).
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