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(nautical, plural only) A frame composed of two strong oak timbers (bitt-heads) fixed vertically in the fore part of a ship, bolted to the deck beams to which are secured the cables when the ship rides to anchor

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Related dictionary entries include bollard, bitt-heads, gallows-bitts, crossbeam, setbolt, batten.

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