bitt-pin (English, noun)
expansion: bitt-pin (plural bitt-pins)
Senses:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: bitt-pins
tags: plural
form: bitt pin
tags: alternative