Similar to belaying-pins, but larger. Used to prevent the cable from slipping off the cross-piece of the bitts, also to confine the cable and messenger there, in heaving in the cable.
·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
Legs. Queer pins; ill shapen legs. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
♦ Belaying pins. Short cylindrical pieces of wood or iron fixed into the fife-rail and other parts o...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The upright pieces of oak-timber let in and bolted to the beams of two decks at least, and to which ...
One rove through the knee of the bitts, which nips the cable on the bight: it consists of four or fi...
The same as cross-piece (which see). ...
A strong timber fixed perpendicularly at the back of the windlass in the middle, serving to support ...
Is that which holds the weather-cable when the ship is moored. ...
Small wooden or iron cylinders, fixed in racks in different parts of the ship, for belaying running ...
A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins. ...
The belaying pins of the fife-rail; called also Jack-pins. ...
(Isaiah 3:22) The original word means some kind of female ornament, probably a reticule or richly or...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...
To put it round the bitts, in order to fasten it, or slacken it out gradually, which last is called ...
To have a gonorrhea. ...