Belaying Pin - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: belaying pinBelaying pin
A strong pin in the side of a vessel or by the mast round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed...
Pin fire
Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge as a pin fire rifle...
Pin-money
Pin-money, an annual sum settled on a wife, to defray her personal expenses in dress and pocket-money. See Howard v. Lord Digby, (1834) 2 Cl&Fin 634; Sugd. Law of Property, pp. 162 et seq.There was a very ancient tax in France for providing the queen with pins....
corking pin
A pin of a large size formerly used attaching a womans headdress to a cork mold...
Firing pin
In the breech mechanism of a firearm the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it...
Bitts
A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor or in warping Other bitts are used for belaying belaying bitts for sustaining the windlass carrick bitts winch bitts or windlass bitts to hold the pawls of the windlass pawl bitts etc...
headpin
The front pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins...
Pinner
One who or that which pins or fastens as with pins...
Rivet
A metallic pin with a head used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends...
Rowlock
A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar same as oarlock...
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