stakehead

English

Etymology

From stake +‎ head.

Noun

stakehead (plural stakeheads)

(ropemaking) A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stakehead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)