A piece of wood bolted under the beams, to support them when pillars are not used.
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Taper>>. II. Tapered ·adj Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A term applied to ropes which decrease in size towards one end, as tacks and sheets. Also termed rat...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt To strengthen with a cleat. II. Cleat ·noun A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to...
Synonymous with dumb-chalder and thumb-cleat. ...
Synonymous with rolling-chock. ...
In shape resembling a thumb. They arrest the topsail-reef-earings from slipping, and are also lashed...
This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle. ...
To nail large cleats under the trucks of the lower-deckers in bad weather, to insure their not fetch...