bitt-pins

A form of bitt-pin — A device like a belaying pin but of heavier scantlings; a turned length of wood or metal passed through the bitts or cross-piece, used to prevent the cable from slipping off or over the bitt-heads yet removable so as to facilitate doing so.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of bitt-pin
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