fair-lead

Then he peered over the side again, his face cleared, and he returned to his post at the stern fair-lead, shouting to his men to carry along the sternfasts.

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

And while the dripping rope crawled in through the fair-lead, cracking and twanging to the strain of the ship's arrested drift, he stood at the rail, rifle in hand, and muttered:

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

With a joyous "hurrah" at the timely arrival of such unexpected assistance, the men roused the hawser on board, threw the eye over the bitts, passed two or three turns of the slack round the barrel of the windlass, and adjusted the rope in a "fair-lead" with lightning rapidity.

The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886