bower-anchors

The Sailor's Word-Book

Those at the bows and in constant working use. They are called best and small, not from a difference of size, but as to the bow on which they are placed; starboard being the best bower, and port the small bower. The appropriated cables assume the respective names. (See also spare anchor, sheet, stream, coasting, kedge, &c.)

The Sailor's Word-Book

← bowd-eaten × bow-fast →

Related Words

Bower
·vi To <<Lodge>>. II. Bower ·v & ·noun One who bows or bends. III. Bower ·noun A young hawk, when ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Bower bird
·- An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which cons...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Lady's bower
·- A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Bower, Archibald
(1686-1766) Historian, b. at Dundee, and ed. at the Scots Coll., Douay, became a Jesuit, but afterw...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter
(d. 1449) Was Abbot of Inchcolm, and continued and enlarged Fordun's Scotichronicon. ...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
bower-bird
n. Australian bird. See quotation,1891. See Ptilonorhynchinae. The following are thevarieties – – –...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
best bower
See bower-anchors. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Bower-Barff process
·add. ·- A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the m...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
fore-ganger of the chain bower cables
Is a length of 15 fathoms of stouter chain, in consequence of greater wear and tear near the anchor,...

The Sailor's Word-Book