A wooden shipbuilding peg used for fastening timbers
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CLOVE HITCH
A knot for temporarily fastening a line to a spar or piling.
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EARING
A line for fastening corner of a sail to the gaff or yard
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FOREBITT
A post for fastening cables at a ship's foremast.
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HITCH
Temporary fastening of rope to a ring, pole or hook
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BEND
1. A knot used to join two ropes or lines.
2. To attach a rope to an object.
3. Fastening a sail to a yard
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BITT
1. A post or pair mounted on the ship's bow, for fastening ropes or cables.
2. Strong vertical timbers or irons fastened through the deck beams used for securing ropes or hawsers.
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SNAP RING
A removable ring used to axially position a bearing or outer ring in a housing. Also used as a means of fastening a shield or seal in a bearing.
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FISH
1) A marine animal. 2) To catch fish. 3) To hoist the flukes of an anchor up on the gunwale. 4) To strengthen a spar by fastening on other pieces.
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TIMBER HITCH
Used for fastening spars or barrels.
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PILLARS
provide a means of transferring loads between decks and fastening together the structure in a vertical directions.
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