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- Cathead abstract "A cathead is a large wooden beam located on either side of the bow of a sailing ship, and angled forward at roughly 45 degrees. The beam is used to support the ship's anchor when raising it (weighing anchor) or lowering it (letting go), and for carrying the anchor on its stock-end when suspended outside the ship's side. It is furnished with sheaves at the outer end, and the inner end (which is called the cat's-tail) fits down on the cat-beam. The cat stopper also fastens the anchor on. The purpose of the cathead is to provide both a heavy enough beam to support the massive weight of the anchor, and to hold the metal anchor away from the wooden side of the ship to prevent damage.In common practice, the projecting end of the beam was carved to resemble the face of a lion or cat. Whether such carving was due to a play on the already existing name of the beam or whether the beam was so named because of the practice of such carving is unknown.The origin of the term "cathead" is obscure, but dates at least to the 17th century used by mainwaring and boteler in their dictionaries.In Robert Charles Leslie's Old Sea Wings, Ways and Words in the Days of Oak and Hemp (1890), page 154 he writes: "The term catheads used for the two stout projecting timbers on either bow, from which the anchor hung clear of the ship before letting go, was no doubt connected with the fact of a lion or large cat usually carved upon the end of the item."".
- Cathead thumbnail Vasa_beakhead1.jpg?width=300.
- Cathead wikiPageID "14344630".
- Cathead wikiPageLength "2432".
- Cathead wikiPageOutDegree "12".
- Cathead wikiPageRevisionID "561695271".
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Anchor.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Cat-beam.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Cat_stopper.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Category:Nautical_terms.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sailboat_components.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Cats-tail.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Seizing.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Sheave.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Stock-end.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink Windlass.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink File:James_Craig_cathead.JPG.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLink File:Vasa_beakhead1.jpg.
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cathead".
- Cathead wikiPageWikiLinkText "cathead".
- Cathead hasPhotoCollection Cathead.
- Cathead wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Other_uses.
- Cathead wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Sailing_ship_elements.
- Cathead wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Unreferenced.
- Cathead subject Category:Nautical_terms.
- Cathead subject Category:Sailboat_components.
- Cathead hypernym Beam.
- Cathead type Article.
- Cathead type Weapon.
- Cathead type Article.
- Cathead type Component.
- Cathead type Sailboat.
- Cathead type Term.
- Cathead comment "A cathead is a large wooden beam located on either side of the bow of a sailing ship, and angled forward at roughly 45 degrees. The beam is used to support the ship's anchor when raising it (weighing anchor) or lowering it (letting go), and for carrying the anchor on its stock-end when suspended outside the ship's side. It is furnished with sheaves at the outer end, and the inner end (which is called the cat's-tail) fits down on the cat-beam. The cat stopper also fastens the anchor on.".
- Cathead label "Cathead".
- Cathead sameAs Serviola_(náutica).
- Cathead sameAs Cabestano.
- Cathead sameAs Kranbjelke.
- Cathead sameAs Kotbelka.
- Cathead sameAs m.0410_g2.
- Cathead sameAs Q550356.
- Cathead sameAs Q550356.
- Cathead wasDerivedFrom Cathead?oldid=561695271.
- Cathead depiction Vasa_beakhead1.jpg.
- Cathead isPrimaryTopicOf Cathead.