cathead

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A heavy piece of timber projecting somewhat horizontally from each side of the bow of a ship on which an anchor is raised or lowered, and secured when not used, from its stock end.

   “"Hurrah, for the last time," said the mate; and the anchor came to the cat-head to the tune of "Time for us to go," with a loud chorus. Everything was done quick, as though it were for the last time.”

2. isim A decorative element at the end of such a timber that often depicts a cat's head.
3. isim A (small) capstan (“vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.”) or windlass (“type of winch”) forming part of hoisting machinery.
4. isim A nodule of ironstone containing fossil remains.
5. isim Ellipsis of cathead biscuit (“a large fluffy biscuit, typically served with gravy”).

   “The trick to eating catheads was to get the butter on them before they got cold—then they were delicious. When, unluckily, they were allowed to get cold, they tended to a gooeyness, not unlike a wad of tired gum.”

6. fiil Synonym of cat (“to hoist (an anchor) so that it hangs at the cathead (noun sense 1.1)”)

   “[T]he whole canvass of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible, everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and catheaded, and the ship under headway.”