One placed between the fore and main masts, serving to stretch a rope, heave upon the jeers, and take the viol to. Very seldom used. It is indeed deemed the spare capstan, and is frequently housed in by sheep-pens and fowl-racks.
·noun A gear; a tackle. II. Jeer ·noun A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting j...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drum...
, &c. A mechanical arrangement for lifting great weights. There is a variety of capsterns, but the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Those to which the jeers are fastened and belayed. ...
Are twofold or threefold blocks, through which the jeer-falls are rove, and applied to hoist, suspen...
An obsolete sea-punishment, in which the offender was sentenced to carry a capstan-bar during a watc...
Long pieces of wood of the best ash or hickory, one end of which is thrust into the square holes in ...
See room. ...
(See step of the capstan.) The men march round to the tune of a fiddle or fife, and the phrase of ...
A rope passed horizontally through notches in the outer ends of the bars, and drawn very tight: the ...
See crab. ...
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
A contrivance for weighing heavy anchors, invented by Sir S. Morland, who died in 1695. ...
The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan. ...
Is the order to slacken the rope which is wound round the barrel while heaving, to prevent it from r...
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...
A broad cylindrical piece of elm, resembling a millstone, and fixed immediately above the barrel and...
The cylinder between the whelps and the paul rim, constituting the main-piece. ...
To place the sailors at it in readiness to heave. ...
To drop all the pauls into their sockets, to prevent the capstan from recoiling during any pause of ...
To fix the bars in their respective holes, thrust in the pins to confine them, and reeve the swifter...
To fix the bars in the drumhead in readiness for heaving; not forgetting to pin and swift. (See caps...
A solid block of wood fixed between two of the ship's beams to receive the iron spindle and heel of ...
To slacken the rope heaved round upon its barrel, to prevent its parts from riding or getting foul. ...
In one sense is to lift the pauls and walk back, or turn the capstan the contrary way, thereby slack...
To urge it round, by pushing against the bars, as already described. ...