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Becket, the tacks and sheets in the
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small knot and eye becket on the foremost-main and fore-shrouds, when the ship is close hauled, to prevent them from hanging in the water. a kind of large cleat seized on a vessel`s fore or main rigging for the sheets and tacks to lie in when not required. cant term for pockets—“hands out of beckets, sir.”
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Bed or barrel screws, английский
A powerful machine for lifting large bodies, and placed against the gripe of a ship to be launched for starting her.
Becket, английский
- A piece of rope placed so as to confine a spar or another rope; anything used to keep loose ropes, tackles, or spars in a convenient place; hence, beckets are either large hooks or short pieces of rope with a knot at one end and an eye in the other; or formed like a circular wreath for handles; as with cutlass hilts, boarding pikes, tomahawks, &c.; or they are wooden brackets, and probably from a corruption and misapplication of this last term arose the word becket, which seems often to be confounded with bracket. also, a grummet either of rope or iron, fixed to the bottom of a block, for making fast the standing end of the fall.
- [1] a loop or eye at the end of a rope or block. [2] an eye in the fluke of an anchor, used to secure it while underway. [3] formerly, anything used to confine loose ropes, tackles, oars, or spars until they are wanted. [4] in tailoring, the “slots” on trousers or raincoat through which a belt is passed. [5] in rn slang, beckets means pockets in clothing.
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