See carrick-bitts.
·noun A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift. II. Windlass ·vi To take a rounda...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[from the Ang.-Sax. windles]. A machine erected in the fore-part of a ship which serves to ride by, ...
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 light windlass for barges. ...
A wooden roller, or heaver, having a rope wound about it, through the bight of which an iron bolt is...
Those pieces of oak or elm fastened inside the bows of small craft, to support the ends of the windl...
Two pieces which continue the windlass outside the bitt-heads. ...
Pieces of hard wood fitted round the main-piece of a windlass to prevent chafing, and also to enable...
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. ...
The supports near their ends. ...
Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...
The same as standards (which see). ...