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horn timbers - Timbers which help support the counter.
horse - A bar of iron or wood, or a rope for some part of a vessel's rigging to travel upon, such as the mainsheet.
Horn Timber:
A heavy longitudinal timber that angles upward from the stern to support the underside of the fantail.
In this revised stern, a set of straight post timbers (also called "whiskers", "horn timbers", or "fan tail timbers"[7]) stretches from the keel diagonally aft and upward.
 See also: Rope, Stem, Yard, Keel, Coast
  
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