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Bollard   /bˈɑlərd/   Listen
Bollard

noun
1.
A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).  Synonym: bitt.





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"Bollard" Quotes from Famous Books



... come and have lunch with him at his club, which is called "The Ragamuffins" for fun, and is full of jolly fellows. There I ate boiled mutton and greens, washed down with an excellent glass, or maybe a glass and a half, of Belgian wine—a wine called Chateau Bollard. ...
— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc
... a rope's end fast to a bollard, etc., is by taking a round turn and two half hitches, and stopping the end back ...
— Knots, Bends, Splices - With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging • J. Netherclift Jutsum
... confusion Ken kept his head. Catching sight of a coil of line on the deck close by the forward hatch, he sprang for it, made one end fast to a bollard, and with a shout flung ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges


Words linked to "Bollard" :   wharfage, bitthead, pier, post, dock, bitt, wharf, ship, riding bitt


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