Nautical. A peg or cleat, usually fixed in pairs, to which certain ropes are belayed (see quot. 1769).
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > cleat or bollard (9) kevelc1330 Nautical. A peg or cleat, usually fixed in pairs, to which certain ropes are belayed (see quot. 1769). cleat1377 Nautical. Originally a small wedge of wood bolted on its side to a spar, etc., that it may by the thickness of its head stop anything from slipping… bollard1844 A wooden or iron post, on a ship, a whale-boat, or a quay, for securing ropes to. Also attributive, as in bollard-head, bollard-timber (see quot.). belaying-cleat1862 Nautical. The coiling of running ropes round pins, etc.; chiefly attributive, as in belaying-cleat, belaying-pin. Also in Mountaineering. thumb-cleat1867 see quot. stag-horn1923 Nautical. (See quot. 1961.) niggerhead1927 Nautical. A bollard or winch-head. Subcategories:— arm of (1) — device for snubbing rope (1) |
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