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A pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing
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fairlead
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n. a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing
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n. (context nautical English) A device to guide a line, rope or cable around an object or out of the way, or to stop it from moving laterally
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A fairlead is a device to guide a line, rope or cable around an object, out of the way or to stop it from moving laterally. Typically a fairlead will be a ring or hook. The fairlead may be a separate piece of hardware, or it could be a hole in the structure. ...
Usage examples of fairlead.
Jackson and Stafford stood by at the rolling hitch, the knot making a bulky lump in the anchor cable which, in the bomb ketch, went over the bow through a fairlead in the bulwark, not through a hawse hole, so that if they were not careful the knot would jam.
Each winch had two drums and the line ran three times round each drum and thence up to masthead blocks and so out through a fairlead in the bow.
There was another, duller explosion, a terrible flurry of spray and then the winch drums were screaming and the masthead block dragging down as the heavy two-inch whale line went roaring out through the fairlead in the bow.
Ryder gathered himself and balanced over the tow line, which was now stretched tight as an iron bar through its fairlead in the stern plating.
Abou Sinn stood over the chain where it emerged through the fairlead of the chain locker with the four-pound hammer ready.
On the screen of the closed circuit TV I watched the lines making in through the fairleads, saw the cover plates slide into place as the eyes vanished inside our hull.