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Definition of Riding bitt
1. Noun. One of the large bitts used to secure the cable of a dropped anchor.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riding Bitt
Literary usage of Riding bitt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rudiments of Naval Architecture: Or, An Exposition of the Elementary by James Peake (1849)
"F, Standard or wood knee to the riding bitt, to which the flange of the lower
hood (6) is secured; but the standard (F) is principally designed to support ..."
2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"For belaying ropes in order of size, — A riding-bitt. A belaying-cleat. ...
A rope a-on-ani thron-n-gh a knin--sa- of the riding-bitt anti tn-st-cl to ..."
3. A Treatise on Naval Architecture and Ship-building: Or, An Exposition of the by Richard Worsam Meade (1869)
"F, standard or wood knee to the riding bitt, to which the flange of the lower
hood is secured—the standard (F) being principally designed to support the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... cable may be secured while the turns are being put on or taken off the riding
bitt, while the mooring swivel U being attached, or at other times. (т. ы. ..."
5. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1880)
"... cable transfers itself to the plain drum and (he cable paid out as on a.
riding bitt. The speed of paying out may be regulated by the after-compressor. ..."
6. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1917)
"... after which the after-length of the chain is dipped outside the port riding-bitt
and hauled across the forecastle to a point near the starboard ..."
7. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1921)
"... which the after-length of the chain is dipped outside the port riding-bitt
and hauled across the forecastle to a point near the starboard hawse-pipe. ..."
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