"...and when she was moving perhaps as fast as she had ever moved, with her leecathead well under the foam of her bow-wave, he laid one hand on the hances, feeling the deep note of her hull as he might have felt the vibrations of his fiddle..." --Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 352
"...and when she was moving perhaps as fast as she had ever moved, with her lee cathead well under the foam of her bow-wave, he laid one hand on the hances, feeling the deep note of her hull as he might have felt the vibrations of his fiddle..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 352
A projection near the bow of a ship to which the anchor is secured.