http://wordie.org/words/cathead Comments for the word 'Cathead' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/cathead#comments "...and when she was moving perhaps as fast as she had ever moved, with her <a href="/words/lee">lee</a> <a href="/words/cathead">cathead</a> well under the foam of her bow-wave, he laid one hand on the <a href="/words/hance">hance</a>s, feeling the deep note of her hull as he might have felt the vibrations of his fiddle..."<br />--Patrick O'Brian, <i>The Far Side of the World</i>, 352 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:07:31 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/cathead#comments http://wordie.org/words/cathead#comments A projection near the bow of a ship to which the anchor is secured. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:07:25 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/cathead#comments