Used to support the backstays.
·noun A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion. II. Backstay ·noun A rope or stay e...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Detached small channels, or chain-wales, fixed abaft the principal ones. They are introduced in pref...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem. ...
Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...
See chain-plates. ...
An old name for the tyre-streaks or iron plates on the circumference of the wheel of a field-piece. ...
Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...
Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...
See limber boards. ...
Stout plates of iron for securing the chains to the ship's side; one end is on the chain-plate bolt,...
Iron plates in the form of the letter T placed under the channels to add strength. ...
Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...