 | J. J. Moore - 1805 - 300 pàgines
...windward better when she is close-hauled ; it is otherwise called the knee of the head. D. JLJ'AVIT, a beam of timber used as a crane whereby to hoist the...the bow, without injuring the planks of the ship's side as it ascends : an operation which, by seamen, is called ji siting the anchor ; the lower end... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 782 pàgines
...long beam of timber, reprefented by a, a, Plate X.CIX, fa. 4. It is ufed as a crane whereby to hoift the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the fules of the fliip as it afcends ; an operation which, by mariners, is called fifiinx the anchor. The... | |
 | 1816 - 816 pàgines
...beam of timber, reprefented by a, a, Plate XCIX, Jin. 4. It is ufed »? a crane w hereby to hoi ft the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the 1 ;- s of the ihip as it afcends ; an operation which, b» mariners, is cMedfJhing tb: anchor. The... | |
 | 1821 - 708 pàgines
...To cut and run. To cut the cable and make sail instantly, without waiting to weigh anchor. JJinil. A long beam of timber, used as a crane, whereby to hoist (he flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the planks of the ship's sides as... | |
 | 1823 - 896 pàgines
...Straits. See New BRITAIN* DAVIT, in a ship, a long beam of timber, represented by a, it, Plate CLXIX. and used as a crane whereby to hoist the flukes of the...anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship as it ascends ; an operation which, by mariners, is called fishing the anchor. The... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1826 - 764 pàgines
...without waiting to weigh anchor. У)ягй. A long beam of timber, used as a crane, whereby to hobt the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without...a smaller kind fixed to the long-boat to weigh the anchoe by the buoy-rope. To deaden a ship's way. To impede her progress through the water. Dead eyes.... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1826 - 732 pàgines
...steer. Ta eut andnm. To cut the cable and make sail instantly, without waiting to weigh anchor. DatU. A long beam of timber, used as a crane, whereby to...without injuring the planks of the ship's sides as it ascend?. There is always a Davit of a smaller kind fixed to the long-boat to weigh the anchor by the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pàgines
...friendship of the earl of Essex. His final fortunes and time of death are not known. DAVIT, in a ship, stress on the noise made by rabid doRS, which he says is ne flukps of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship as it ascends ;... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 650 pàgines
...cape Dyer and the island called Шие-Back, it is 80 leagues wide. (See Davis.) DAVIT, in a ship ; a long beam of timber, used as a crane, whereby to...anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the vessel as it ascends — an operation which is called, by manners, ßihing the anchor.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 648 pàgines
...ca]>e Dyer and the island called ffhite-Back, it is 80 leagues wide. (See Dams.) DAVIT, in a ship ; a long beam of timber, used as a crane, whereby to hoist tlie flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the vessel ns it ascends... | |
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Davit ; a long beam of timber, used as a crane, whereby to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the planks of the ship's sides as it ascends. 
