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Loggerhead
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
- An iron ball attached to a long handle, used for driving caulking into seams and (occasionally) in a fight. hence: `at loggerheads`.
- [1] in the 15th and 16th centuries, a loggerhead was a big long-handled ladle used for scalding a grappled enemy by pouring hot oil, tar, or water from caldrons set up on deck and heated to boiling point in sand-filled brick pits. [2] later, the name was applied to a caulking tool consisting of a long iron rod with a ball at the end. the latter was heated until red and then plunged into pitch to soften it. [3] an alternate name for bar shot. [4] a wooden fixture at the stem of a rowing whaleboat around which the harpoon line was controlled. [5] an endangered species of sea turtle. (see also at loggerheads.)
- Несоразмерно большая голова
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Controlled, английский
- Управляемый; регулируемый
- Управляемый
- Подконтрольный (о предприятиях)
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Spider band or spider hoop, английский
An iron band around the base of a mast which holds a set of iron belaying pins.
Way-landing, английский
An intermediate stop along the route of a steamboat.
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