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Poppet   Listen
noun
Poppet  n.  
1.
See Puppet.
2.
(Naut.) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
3.
(Mach.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
4.
Same as poppit.
Poppet head, Puppet head. See Headstock (a).





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"Poppet" Quotes from Famous Books



... officially applied to the spanker, both being the aftermost sails of a ship, the ring-tail being only an addition, as a studding or steering sail. (See STEERING-SAIL.) Also, the foremost spur in the bilge-ways, the heel of which is fayed to the fore-side of the foremost poppet, and the sides of it look fore and aft. ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... passed a wire-rope cable fastened on the seaward side to the buoy, and on the landward side to the machinery in the engine-house. The whole arrangement in fact is very similar in appearance to the "poppet-head" and surface buildings that may be seen at any well-equipped mine. The difference in principle, of course, is that while on a mine the engine-house is supplying power to the other side of the derrick, the relations are reversed in the wave-motor, ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland


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