The bitts which support the ends or spindles of the windlass, whence they are also called windlass-bitts.
·noun A carack. ·see <<Carack>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An old Gaelic term for a castle or fortress, as well as for a rock in the sea. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun ·pl A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which t...
A frame composed of two strong pieces of straight oak timber, fixed upright in the fore-part of a sh...
A kind of knot, formed on a bight by putting the end of a rope over its standing part, and then pass...
Are strong upright timbers secured to the beams below the deck; they have a cross-piece bolted to th...
See bitts. ...
Those to which the jeers are fastened and belayed. ...
Those to which the cable is made fast. ...
The supports near their ends. ...
See carrick-bitts. ...
Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...
The same as standards (which see). ...