timberhead

tim·ber·head

noun

Nautical

An upper end of a timber that projects above a deck and is used as a bollard.

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Noun

(plural timberheads)

(nautical) The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Origin

timber +"Ž head

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