cathead

This time he struck the ship just under the weather cathead.

Having no pilot on board, two midshipmen were stationed at each cathead to look out.

His knees were lodged upon a stout rope, tightly stretched, and reaching from the heel of the bowsprit to a cathead.

Glad enough was I to hear the heavy plunge of one of the bowers, as it fell from the cathead into the water.