tafferelEtymologyFrom Dutch tafereel (“panel, picture”), diminutive of tafel (“table”), from Latin tabula (“table”).tafferel means A carved panel. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA carved panel.The flat upper part of a ship's stern above the transom, often decorated with carvings.The taffrail.“A true Chinese junk is a great curiosity; the model must have been taken originally from a bread-trough, being broad and square at both ends—when light, (I speak of a large one,) it is full thirty feet from the surface of the water to the tafferel, or the highest part of the poop.”