Attached to the rudder-pendants.
·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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The luff purchases for the heels of each sheer previous to taking in masts, or otherwise using them....
Those overhauled down for hoisting up top-sails to be bent. Long-tackle blocks have two sheaves of d...
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
, are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...
Those which are occasionally hooked to the tiller, in order to steer by in bad weather or in action,...
Used to prevent the yards from swaying to and fro under heavy rolling motion. ...
Tackles attached to the fore and main yards of a ship, whereby, with the assistance of the stay-tack...
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 hooks attached to the rudder, which enter the braces, and hang it. ...
The aftermost part of the rudder. ...
The main piece of a rudder. ...
A casing of wood fitted or boxed firmly into a cavity in the vessel's counter, called the helm port,...
Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the tru...
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. ...
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...
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...