The hooks attached to the rudder, which enter the braces, and hang it.
The rudder is hung on to a ship by pintles and braces. The braces are secured firmly to the stern-po...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A riddle or sieve. II. Rudder ·noun Fig.: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governo...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The appendage attached by pintles and braces to the stern-post of a vessel, by which its course thro...
Ancient ships had two great broad-bladed oars for rudders. These, when not in use, were lifted out o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A contrivance, of which there are several kinds, for supplying a vessel with the means of steering w...
The iron or composition hinges on which a rudder turns. ...
The same as rudder-trunk (which see). ...
Strong copper chains connected with the aft side of the rudder by a span clamp and shackles. They ar...
The same as gudgeon (which see) and chalder. ...
See chock. ...
A canvas coat affixed to the rudder, encasing the opening in the counter, to prevent the sea from ru...
Those secured to a ship are termed braces; gudgeon is more applicable to boats or small vessels. ...
The upper end of the rudder-stock. Also, the flat surface of the trunk, which in cabins and ward-roo...
A kind of iron crutch bolted to the back of the rudder, for attaching the rudder chains to in case o...
Synonymous with wheel-house. ...
The pintles, gudgeons, and braces of the rudder are frequently so called, though they were usually o...
(See rudder-chains.) Hempen pendants fastened to the rudder-chains, for steering in cases of acciden...
The aftermost part of the rudder. ...
The main piece of a rudder. ...
Attached to the rudder-pendants. ...
A casing of wood fitted or boxed firmly into a cavity in the vessel's counter, called the helm port,...
So as to allow the pintles to fall into their corresponding braces, constantly in boats, and frequen...
See rudder-horn. ...
(See wood-locks of the rudder.) In machinery, applies to wedges, forelocks, &c. ...
A piece of timber attached to its lower part to render it nearly level with the false keel. ...
See pintles. ...
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...
Pieces of timber sheathed with copper, in coppered ships, placed in the throating or scores of the s...