midship

She was built of cedar, and her lines and midship section are given in Dixon Kemp's 'Boat-sailing.'

It is desirable that the sheer should be ample, and the form not unduly fined away within the midship half length.

He visited the sloop and measured her beam carefully in several parts, but particularly her midship frame.

"I was visiting midship and wasn't home when it happened," he said.

He installed himself in the stern with the steer-oar, and the young man and the girl sat together on the midship seat.