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单词 bitt-pin
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bitt-pin
One of the strong posts firmly fastened in pairs in the deck or decks of a ship, for fastening cables, belaying ropes, etc.; generally used in the plural. The chief pair, the riding bitts, are used for fastening the cable while the ship rides at anchor; others are the topsail-sheet bitts, carrick-bitts, wind-lass bitts, etc. Also attrib., as bitt-head, bitt-pin.
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bitta1614
Samson's post1769
riding bitt1794
loggerhead1840
strongback1867
snubbing-post1875
snub-post1875
Samson bar1889
a1614 P. Nichols Sir F. Drake Reuiued (1626) 22 Two or three yonkers, which were found afore the beetes.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 10 The Bits are two great peeces of timber, and the Crospeece goeth thorow them.
1639 J. Woodall Treat. Gangrena in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 398 A Cable as it was running out of the bits of the ship (as the Sea-men terme it).
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms, Tour-et-choque, a weather-bit of the cable, or a turn and half-turn about the bits.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. ix. 120 Jack stood..not far from the main bitts.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 97 Bitts..It consists of two upright pieces of oak, called Bitt-Pins, when the bitts are large, or of knees, when the bitts are small, with a cross piece fastened horizontally near the head of them.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xv. 276 To keep the bitt in its proper position.
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