hair bracket
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is it because we would usually expect to find hair behind a (figure)head?”)
Noun
[edit]hair bracket (plural hair brackets)
- (shipbuilding, historical) A moulding which comes in at the back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead.