Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem.
·noun A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; — usually...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
These are made with large rope, and an eye spliced in each end; they are secured round the bowsprit,...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Those cut through the fore-part of the knee of the head, between the cheeks, for the admission of th...
Used to support the backstays. ...
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...