bobstay-holes

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• Bobstay

  ·noun A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; — usually...

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• bobstay-collars

  These are made with large rope, and an eye spliced in each end; they are secured round the bowsprit,...

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• bobstay-plates

  Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem. ...

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• dream-holes

  the openings left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c. for the admission of light. Glouc. ...

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• blow-holes

  The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...

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• cat-holes

  Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...

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• eyelet-holes

  , are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom, or to reef it; they consist of round ho...

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• futtock-holes

  Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...

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• hawse-holes

  Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...

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• head-holes

  The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...

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• holes, eyelet

  or œillet. The holes in sails for points and rope-bands which are fenced round by stitching the ed...

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• lewis-holes

  Two holes in the surface of a mortar, superseding ears. ...

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• loop-holes

  Small openings made in the walls of a castle, or a fortification, for musketry to fire through. Also...

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• marline-holes

  Holes made for marling, or lacing the foot-rope and clues in courses and top-sails. ...

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• mast-holes

  The apertures in the deck-partners for stepping the masts. ...

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• point-holes

  The eyelet-holes for the points. ...

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• port-holes

  See ports ...

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• sludge-holes

  Adaptations at the ends of the water-passages between the flues of a steamer's boilers, by which the...

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