cathead

• An anchor, for instance, would be hanging to the rail of the topgallant forecastle, or the cathead, and, as the caique came dropping down with the current, if they drifted her under the bow, the stopper and shankpainter was let go simultaneously, and the anchor landed on their heads and then through the bottom of the boat. —  The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
• On our passage down we ran on board a transport and carried away our larboard fore-chains, cathead, and small bower-anchor stock, not to speak of having so severely damaged the transport that she nearly sank. —  Hurricane Hurry
• At this moment it was secured to the cathead, and before the brute could get free it was hoisted on deck. —  Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
• The escape of the boatswain was also very remarkable; he was standing on the cathead, directing the men in rigging out the jib-boom, when he felt himself suddenly carried off his feet into the air: he then fell into the sea senseless; and on recovering his consciousness, he found that he had got entangled amongst the rigging, and that his arm was broken. —  Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849
• Aft and walk away with her Handsome to the cathead, now! —  Old and New Masters

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