 | J. J. Moore - English language - 1805 - 300 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 816 pages
...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... | |
 | Nautical astronomy - 1821 - 708 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 896 pages
...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 - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 764 pages
...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 - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...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 - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...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 ;... | |
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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. 
