bitt-pin

English

Alternative forms

  • bitt pin

Noun

bitt-pin (plural bitt-pins)

  1. (nautical) A device like a belaying pin but of heavier scantlings; a turned length of wood or metal passed through the bitts or cross-piece, used to prevent the cable from slipping off or over the bitt-heads yet removable so as to facilitate doing so.
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