♦ Belaying pins. Short cylindrical pieces of wood or iron fixed into the fife-rail and other parts of a vessel, for making fast the running-rigging.
Legs. Queer pins; ill shapen legs. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Small wooden or iron cylinders, fixed in racks in different parts of the ship, for belaying running ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Similar to belaying-pins, but larger. Used to prevent the cable from slipping off the cross-piece of...
A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins. ...
The belaying pins of the fife-rail; called also Jack-pins. ...
(Isaiah 3:22) The original word means some kind of female ornament, probably a reticule or richly or...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Pins inserted through their ends to prevent their unshipping. ...
To have a gonorrhea. ...