Stout plates of iron for securing the chains to the ship's side; one end is on the chain-plate bolt, the other is bolted to the ship's side below it.
·noun An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. II. Preventer ·noun One who goes before; one who fore...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Applied to ropes, &c., when used as additional securities to aid other ropes in supporting spars, &c...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Short pieces of rope, knotted at each end, for securing the clues of sails or rigging during action,...
Used to support the backstays. ...
Iron plates by which the lower end of the bobstay is attached to the stem. ...
Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...
See chain-plates. ...
An old name for the tyre-streaks or iron plates on the circumference of the wheel of a field-piece. ...
Iron plates with dead-eyes, crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the ...
Short movable pieces of plank; a part of the lining of a ship's floor, close to the keelson, and imm...
See limber boards. ...
Iron plates in the form of the letter T placed under the channels to add strength. ...
Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...
Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...