A wooden rod sitting in a hole on the rail that a rope can be tied to temporarily. A useful improvised weapon aboard a sailing ship because they
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A belaying pin is a solid metal or wooden device used on traditionally rigged sailing vessels to secure lines of running rigging. Largely replaced on most modern vessels by cleats, they are still used, particularly on square rigged ships. A belaying pin is composed of a round handle and cylindrical shaft. The shaft is inserted into a hole in vario...
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A short wooden rod to which a ship's rigging is secured. A common improvised weapon aboard a sailing ship, because they're everywhere, they're easily picked up, and they are the right size and weight to be used as clubs.
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• A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
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Be·lay'ing pin` (be*lā'ĭng pĭn`).
(Nautical) A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.
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A belaying pin is a bar which can be fixed in position, and around which a rope can be secured. On old sailing ships belaying pins were common as wooden bars, resembling an old policeman's truncheon, which sat in holes around the edge of the deck of the ship and to which the ropes were secured (belayed) by winding them around in a figure of eight p...
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n] - a wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing)
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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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A short wooden rod to which a ship's rigging is secured. A common improvised weapon aboard a sailing ship, because they're everywhere, they're easily picked up, and they are the right size and weight to be used as clubs.
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a short, round bar of metal or wood, inserted in a fife rail or pin rail, to which a rope is belayed.
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