Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bollard sleeves in various alloys or finishes are designed to cover security bollards to enhance their visual attractiveness. [citation needed] U-shaped bollards are typically used for the protection of equipment and are common in areas that need coverage over a wider area than of a normal bollard, such as fuel stations and bike lanes.
Bitts are paired vertical wooden or metal posts mounted either aboard a ship or on a wharf, pier, or quay. The posts are used to secure mooring lines, ropes , hawsers , or cables . [ 1 ] Bitts aboard wooden sailing ships (sometime called cable-bitts) were large vertical timbers mortised into the keel and used as the anchor cable attachment ...
Mooring ring (permanent) affixed between the edge of the canal and the tow path, with (boat operator supplied) rope to the boat. [17] Mooring bollard (permanent) affixed canal-side on lock-approaches for the short-term mooring of advancing boats and lock-side to assist in ascent and descent. [17]
The jib-boom is—as the name suggests—the boom for the jib, extending its foot. [1] On smaller, merchant, sailing ships, it is commonly attached to the bowsprit by a cap and a saddle, either lashed down or secured with a crupper chain.
A line tied with a cleat hitch to a horn cleat [1] on a dock. The line comes from a boat off the top of the picture, around the right horn, around the left horn, across the cleat from top left to bottom right, around the right horn, and then hitches around the left horn.
This cut of meat comes from the beef rib primal section of the cow, which is located between the shoulder and the loin, and above the belly. Cows have 13 ribs on each side.
The anchor is shackled to the anchor cable (US anchor chain), the cable passes up through the hawsepipe, through the pawl, over the windlass gypsy (US wildcat) down through the "spurling pipe" to the chain/cable locker under the forecastle (or poop if at the stern (US fantail)) - the anchor bitts are on a bulkhead in the cable locker and the bitter end of the cable is connected to the bitts ...
Bollard style: Post and ring: Bollards are short vertical posts most commonly used as traffic or parking barriers. Bollard style bike racks add one or two arms to which bikes may be secured. [5] Post-and-ring racks are a North American variant on the bollard type. Bollard-style rack in Seattle, Washington, United States