timberhead

English

Etymology

From timber +‎ head.

Noun

timberhead (plural timberheads)

1. (nautical) The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.
   • 1985, The Great Circle, page 32:

     If one refers to af chapman one finds that while only three drawings of comparable ships show boomkins fitted, all drawings of bluff-headed ships show either an extra timberhead or a half-round cutting in the top of the hawse piece to accommodate this spar when needed.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “timberhead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)