Commonly made of steel, are used as long punches for driving out other bolts.
·noun Anything driven at random. II. Drift ·noun A driving; a violent movement. III. Drift ·noun I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The altered position of a vessel by current or falling to leeward when hove-to or lying-to in a gale...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- Similar and probably related motion of the stars of an asterism, as distinguished from appa...
The debris of the main pack. (See open ice.) ...
Consisting chiefly of an argillaceous earth, brought down by the rivers, floated about, and successi...
A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...
Solid pieces fitted at the drifts, forming the scrolls on the drifts: they are commonly mitred into ...
A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...
Synonymous with lee-way. ...
A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...
Those which have their points jagged or barbed to make them hold securely, where those commonly in u...
A contemptuous term for the missiles which were thrown by the galley-slaves at an approaching enemy....
The long bolts which pass through all the planks, and connect the channel to the side. ...
Those fastened by means of a ring, or an iron plate, with a rivetting hammer at the end where they p...
See copper-fastened. ...
Those with false clenches, often introduced into contract-built ships. ...
Those which have an eye or opening in one end, for hooking tackles to, or fastening ropes. ...
See fendII ...
Those with an eye, into which an iron forelock is driven to retain them in place. When secured in th...
Those used to secure lower-deck ports. ...
Knobs of iron on the cheeks of a gun-carriage to keep the handspike from slipping when prising up th...
Saucer-headed bolts to attach the brake to the pump-standard and pump-spear. ...
Those which are jagged or barbed, to prevent working in their holes, and to make them hold more secu...
Used in drifting out bolts from their position. Also employed for forcing the planks and other works...
Eye-bolts fixed in the lower part of tops, and the jaw-ends of gaffs, for hooking the throat-halliar...
Dense ice, which has a great depth in the water in proportion to its size, and is not in a state of ...
Those with very flat heads. ...