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Belaying pin

noun
1.
A wood or metal bar to which a rope can be secured (as on a ship or in mountain climbing).





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"Belaying pin" Quotes from Famous Books



... them on deck in a scene of unusual character. He himself had a revolver in one hand, and a belaying pin in the other; he had been quelling, by the tranquillising methods of Captain Kettle, a mutiny caused by the terror of the crew. The sailors had attempted to leap overboard in the alarm caused by ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
... Clarke as being most familiar with the ship, and we went down into the hold. Clarke carried a lantern. Charlie Jones held Singleton's broken revolver. I carried a belaying pin. But, although we searched every foot of space, we found nothing. The formaldehyde with which Turner had fumigated the ship clung here tenaciously, and, mixed with the odors of bilge water and the indescribable heavy smells left by tropical cargoes, made me dizzy ...
— The After House • Mary Roberts Rinehart


Words linked to "Belaying pin" :   ship, bar


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