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Thought it meant the top rails. So even more full than full. Brimming!
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“At The ClerkenWell, I espied an Obby Oser stuff’t to his ghunnils (sic) and, after the manner in these wards exclaimed aloud ‘Sire, do a skide’, which, owing to the incline, he was nobly able to oblige”
Coleridge, London Findings Gathered o’er Severall Seasons, 1803
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Everyone is right, except maybe @crossedthread who I suspect is messing with us. Gunwales, pronounced ‘gunnels,’ are the sides of a boat, so stuffed to the gunwales means fully loaded.
I knew my pointless nautical knowledge would come in handy on a bike forum one day...