10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELAYING CLEAT»
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The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, a Key to the ...
123, a STOP CLEAT. Such are nailed on the Bowsprit, for the Gammoning,
Collars, &c: and sometimes, on the Yard Arms. Fig. 124, a BELAYING CLEAT.
This is nailed or bolted to the side, for the purpose of belaying the Running-
rigging to.
Darcy LEVER (of Pontefract.), 1819
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Knight's American mechanical dictionary
Belaying-cleat. Kevel. Belaying-bitt. Riding-bitt. Ch-tree. Bol'fry. l. A warlike
machine in the form of a taster, formerly used in sieges as a cover while firing on
the enemy. 2. Architecture. is. A tower, either forming part of aeduilding or
etached, ...
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Universal Technological Dictionary Or Familiar Explanation ...
They are of different kinds, according to their form, as — Belaying cleat, which is
formed with two arms. — Comb cleat, which is straight on the inner edge. —Mast
cleat, which is made with a score to admit a seizing, and a hole in the centre for ...
4
The Language of Sailing
First attested, in the sense of a wedge, in 1377 in Political Poems (Rolls Series,
1859-61), I 217; in the sense of a belaying cleat, in 1769 in Falconer, Dictionary.
clench (virtually interchangeable with clinch) to rivet by beating the end of a boat
...
5
German Technical Dictionary
Belegklampe f <Wassertrans> belaying cleat, cleat (Deckausrüstung) Beleglesen
n <Comp & DV> document reading Belegleser m <Comp & DV> document
reader, mark reader Belegmuster n <Qual> known-good device Belegnagel ...
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The Sailor's Word: A Complete Dictionary of Nautical Terms ...
They are called belaying cleat, deck-cleat, and a thumb-cleat. Also, small wedges
of wood fastened on the yards, to keep ropes or the earing of the sail from
slipping off the yard. Mostly made of elm or oak. CLEAVAGE. The splitting of any
body ...
William Henry Smyth, Edward Belcher, 2008
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The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical ...
... insure their not fetching way. CLEATS, or Cleets. Pieces of wood of different
shapes used to fasten ropes upon: some have one and some two arms. They are
called belaying cleat, deck-cleat, and a thumb-cleat. Also, small wedges of wood
...
William Henry Smyth, Sir Edward Belcher, 1867
8
Universal Technological Dictionary
-—Mast cleat, which is made with a score to admit a seizing, and a hole in the
centre for an under seizing—Shroud cleat, formed like the belaying cleat, but with
a grooved ed e.—-Single cleat, formed with one arm only—Stop cleat, nafied on ...
9
Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English ...
A belaying cleat ; a piece of timber nailed to the upper parts of a ship for fasten
ing the ropes. Cornamusas de (us palos, The belaying cleatsof the lower masts.
Cornamu- sas de ponton. The notched cleats of a pontoon, [dolts. Cornas, sf. pi.
Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, 1836
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Dictionary of the Spanish and English Language: Wherein the ...
A belaying cleat ; a piece of timber nailed to the upper parts of a ship for fastening
the ropes. Cornamusas de las polos, The belaying cleats of the lower masts.
Cornamusas de ponton. The notched cleats of a pontoon, [dales. CO"RSAS, sf. pi
.
Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Barretti, 1832
