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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
taffrail/ˈtafreɪl/

▶noun a rail round a ship's stern.

– origin C19: alt. (by assoc. with rail1) of obs. tafferel ‘panel’, used to denote the flat part of a ship's stern above the transom, from Du. tafereel.

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