cable-bitts

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• Bitts

  ·noun ·pl A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which t...

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• bitts

  A frame composed of two strong pieces of straight oak timber, fixed upright in the fore-part of a sh...

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• Cable

  ·vt To fasten with a cable. II. Cable ·vt & ·vi To telegraph by a submarine cable. III. Cable ·vt ...

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• cable

  A thick, strong rope or chain which serves to keep a ship at anchor; the rope is cable-laid, 10 inch...

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• bowsprit-bitts

  Are strong upright timbers secured to the beams below the deck; they have a cross-piece bolted to th...

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• carrick-bitts

  The bitts which support the ends or spindles of the windlass, whence they are also called windlass-b...

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• jeer-bitts

  Those to which the jeers are fastened and belayed. ...

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• riding-bitts

  Those to which the cable is made fast. ...

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• winch-bitts

  The supports near their ends. ...

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• windlass-bitts

  See carrick-bitts. ...

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• cable-sheet, sheet-cable

  The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anch...

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• cable-stream, stream-cable

  A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during ...

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• Sheet cable

  ·- The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. ...

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• cable-bends

  Two small ropes for lashing the end of a hempen cable to its own part, in order to secure the clinch...

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• cable-bitted

  So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease. ...

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• cable-buoys

  Peculiar casks employed to buoy up rope cables in a rocky anchorage, to prevent their rubbing agains...

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• cable-enough

  The call when cable enough is veered to permit of the anchor being brought to the cat-head. ...

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• cable-hanger

  A term applied to any person catching oysters in the river Medway, not free of the fishery, and who ...

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• cable-stage

  A place constructed in the hold, or cable-tier, for coiling cables and hawsers on. ...

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• cable-tier

  The place in a hold, or between decks, where the cables are coiled away. ...

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• sheet-cable

  A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a shi...

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• stream-cable

  A hawser smaller than the lower cables, and used with the stream-anchor to moor the ship in a shelte...

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• topsail-sheet bitts

  Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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• Cable, George Washington

  (b. 1844) American novelist. Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881...

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• bending the cable

  The operation of clinching, or tying the cable to the ring of its anchor. The term is still used for...

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• cable-laid rope

  Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope. Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand rope...

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• chain-cable compressor

  A curved arm of iron which revolves on a bolt through an eye at one end, at the other is a larger ey...

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• chain-cable controller

  A contrivance for the prevention of one part of the chain riding on another while heaving in. ...

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• chain-cable shackles

  Used for coupling the parts of a chain-cable at various lengths, so that they may be disconnected wh...

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• range of cable

  A sufficient quantity of cable left slack to allow the anchor to reach the ground before the cable i...

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• veering cable, the

  That cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse. ...

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• spurs of the bitts

  The same as standards (which see). ...

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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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• cable, to coil a

  To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other. ♦ To lay a cable. (See laying.) ♦ To pay cheap ...

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• cut the cable, to

  A manœuvre sometimes necessary for making a ship cast the right way, or when the anchor cannot be we...

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• stopper of the cable

  Commonly called a deck-stopper. A piece of rope having a large knot at one end, and hooked or lashed...

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• testing a chain-cable

  Trying its strength by the hydraulic machine, which strains it beyond what it is likely to undergo w...

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• stand clear of the cable!

  A precautionary order when about to let go the anchor, that nothing may obstruct it in running out o...

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• veer away the cable, to

  To slack and let it run out. ...

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• moor a cable each way, to

  Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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• moor with a spring on the cable, to

  See spring. ...

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