Crossword-Solution: CATHEAD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cathead | n. | A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CATHEAD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bow beam to support anchor. | 1 answer |
| Timber for the anchor | 1 answer |
| Winch on an oil-well rig | 1 answer |
| BEAM NAUTICAL | 12 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with CATHEAD (5)
Aft and walk away with her! Handsome to the cathead, now; O tally on the fall! Stop, seize and fish, and easy on the davit-guy.
His knees were lodged upon a stout rope, tightly stretched, and reaching from the heel of the bowsprit to a cathead.
The _Sandwich_ lay that morning above Blackstakes, the headmost ship of the fleet, and at the moment when Parker leapt from her cathead scaffold a boat containing his wife shot out into the stream.
One Sunday morning, in the warm latitudes, while the sea was calm, a young man, on his first voyage, quietly undressed himself, and without a word to any one, thoughtlessly mounted the cathead and plunged into the water.
Glad enough was I to hear the heavy plunge of one of the bowers, as it fell from the cathead into the water.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1964–1986).