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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short, removable wooden or metal pin fitted in a hole in the rail of a boat and used for securing rigging lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun a wooden or iron pin to which running rigging may be belayed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Naut.) A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical Any of the short lengths of
wood ,iron orbrass set up inconvenient places on aship tosecure running rigging.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing)
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