The supports near their ends.
·noun A <<Wince>>. II. Winch ·noun A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness. III. Winc...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[from the Anglo-Saxon wince]. A purchase formed by a shaft whose extremities rest in two channels pl...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun ·pl A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which t...
A frame composed of two strong pieces of straight oak timber, fixed upright in the fore-part of a sh...
A machine for hoisting out cargo or working a ship's pumps. ...
See whirl ...
Are strong upright timbers secured to the beams below the deck; they have a cross-piece bolted to th...
See bitts. ...
The bitts which support the ends or spindles of the windlass, whence they are also called windlass-b...
Those to which the jeers are fastened and belayed. ...
Those to which the cable is made fast. ...
See carrick-bitts. ...
Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...
The same as standards (which see). ...