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ETYMOLOGY:
In the 18th and 19th centuries sailors' wives used such platforms to look for signs of their husbands returning home.
Hello and welcome since I happen to pass here.
About the hazards of sailors; could it not be so that since you understand why it is called widow's rail without further context, everybody else does?
(the devil's advocate)
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