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What is a stringpiece?

What is a stringpiece? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; especially one of the longitudinal pieces supporting a flight or run of stairs.
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He clambered over the stringpiece, right at the heels of his impatient but grateful passenger.
We run alongside the wharf jest as Booth Hank climbed over the stringpiece.
It imported a 5,000-ton heavy punching machine from Japan, which ensures that the stringpiece of the car frame is shaped with only one punch.
Doubtless that was the time the Bradys saw him bending over the stringpiece.
But when she had dropped from the wharf's stringpiece to the deck of the tug she stopped abruptly and stared.
The starboard quarter grated against the piling, and the open stern windows overhung the stringpiece for a moment.

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