timberhead
nounEtymology From timber + head.
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Nautical, Transport The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.
- If one refers to af chapman one finds that while only three drawings of comparable ships show boomkins fitted, all drawings of bluff-headed ships show either an extra timberhead or a half-round cutting in the top of the hawse piece to accommodate this spar when needed.1985, The Great Circle, page 32: