cathead
a projecting timber or metal beam to which an anchor is hoisted and secured.
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How to use cathead in a sentence
This time he struck the ship just under the weather cathead.
South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend BradyHaving no pilot on board, two midshipmen were stationed at each cathead to look out.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. KingstonHis knees were lodged upon a stout rope, tightly stretched, and reaching from the heel of the bowsprit to a cathead.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan PoeGlad enough was I to hear the heavy plunge of one of the bowers, as it fell from the cathead into the water.
Afloat And Ashore | James Fenimore CooperThe whale crashed into the bows of the Essex, staving them completely in directly under the cathead.
Bark Kathleen Sunk By A Whale | Thomas H. Jenkins
British Dictionary definitions for cathead
/ (ˈkætˌhɛd) /
a fitting at the bow of a vessel for securing the anchor when raised
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