1) Anchor chain attachment 2) Bollard 3) Deck post 4) Deck post for cables 5) Deck post for nautical ropes 6) Hardy post 7) Mooring post 8) Mooring post on a ship 9) Post 10) Post for fastening towlines 11) Secure with a 12) Secure with a bitt 13) Ship cable anchor 14) Ship post 15) Ship post for securing cables
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1) Bollard
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Wood or metal post for securing mooring lines, rigging, or anchor cables. Usually fitted in pairs. Steel bitts may have a single, double, or triple post on a common base. Bitts are named by their function, so you may run into terms such as Quarter Bitts (mooring bitts aft), sheet bitts (for belaying topsail sheets), and Riding bitts (for securing a...
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• (n.) See Bitts. • (v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
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A sturdy post on which to tie anchor or mooring lines.
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Bitt noun (Nautical) See
Bitts .
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Bitt transitive verb [ See
Bitts .]
(Nautical) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called
veering away .
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v] - secure with a bitt
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verb secure with a bitt; `bitt the ship line`
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