bitt-heads

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• Bitt

  ·noun ·see <<Bitts>>. II. Bitt ·vt To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to faste...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bitt-pins

  Similar to belaying-pins, but larger. Used to prevent the cable from slipping off the cross-piece of...

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• bitt-stopper

  One rove through the knee of the bitts, which nips the cable on the bight: it consists of four or fi...

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• cross-bitt

  The same as cross-piece (which see). ...

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• paul bitt

  A strong timber fixed perpendicularly at the back of the windlass in the middle, serving to support ...

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• weather-bitt

  Is that which holds the weather-cable when the ship is moored. ...

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• cat-heads

  A Woman's breasts. SEA PHRASE. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• negroe's heads

  Brown leaves delivered to the ships in ordinary. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dead heads

  Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bulk-heads

  Partitions built up in several parts of a ship, to form and separate the various cabins from each ot...

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• cubbridge heads

  The old bulk-heads of the forecastle and half-decks, wherein were placed the "murderers," or guns fo...

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• kevel-heads

  The ends of the top timbers, which, rising above the gunwale, serve to belay the ropes, or to be use...

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• knight-heads

  Two large oak timbers, one on each side of the stem, rising up sufficiently above it to support the ...

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• negro-heads

  The brown loaves issued to ships in ordinary. ...

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• range-heads

  The windlass-bitts (which see). ...

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• timber-heads

  The heads of the timbers that rise above the decks, and are used for belaying hawsers, large ropes, ...

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• wrung-heads

  An old term for that part of a ship near the floor-heads and second futtock-heels, which, when she l...

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• heads and plucks

  the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• compartment bulk-heads

  Some of the iron ships have adopted the admirable Chinese plan of dividing the hold athwart-ship by ...

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• bitt the cable, to

  To put it round the bitts, in order to fasten it, or slacken it out gradually, which last is called ...

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