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Lifeboat-raising device
Answer for the clue "Lifeboat-raising device ", 5 letters:
davit
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A davit is any of various cranelike devices used on a ship for supporting, raising, and lowering boats, anchors, etc. Davit systems are most often used to lower an emergency lifeboat to the embarkation level to be boarded. Davits can also be used as man-overboard ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship. 2 (context nautical construction English) A crane, often working in pairs ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also david , "crane-like structure used to lower things off a ship, etc.," late 15c., apparently a use of the masc. proper name David on the pattern of applying common Christian names to useful devices (compare jack , jenny , jimmy ).
Usage examples of davit.
Although this was a shore-to-shore operation which required only one night spent in the English Channel, big transports with landing craft on davits were employed in addition to beaching craft.
He found a tin can --- possibly left in a leaky boat before its final boist to the davits --- and gave her a drink, to which he had added a few drops of the whisky.
Billy climbed aboard, and he and Durant hoisted the yawl-boat on her davits.
He did not bring those uncouth vermiculations to a stop until he was well back in the shelter of a rusty capstan, cut off from the light by a lifeboat swinging on its davits.
Departing from Nukualofu just ahead of the carriers was a group of high-sided gray transports, their decks green with Marine fatigue uniforms and ringed with small landing craft hanging from their davits.
I am climbing down from the davits in haste when I hear Billy Lanney beseeching Hammerhead Jack.
Worse yet, supposing she asks for Davits and he still stands there like a video extra or something elsesay, some yellowbellied embodiment named Cringe?
Small groups of men were uncovering each of the lifeboats at random, and tossing in lanterns and tins of biscuits, but the crowds were still holding back as crewmen moved to the davits and began turning the cranks that swung the lifeboats out and then lowered them to where they could be boarded by the extremely hesitant group that stood and watched them.
The lifeboats from the Titanic had been taken off first, the davits had been moved into place, and the boats lowered as they had been when they left the sinking ship four days before, only this time the boats were lowered with only a single seaman in each, as the survivors stood at the rail and watched while lightning bolts lit up the night sky, and thunder exploded overhead.
As for the boat, some of the crew the murderer or murderers had cut it from the davits and tied it to the stern by a painter.
My head was lying in the scuppers, inches away from one of the lifeboat davits.
I doing there with my head in the scuppers, inches away from the davits?
I knew I was lying in the scuppers with my head cut must have struck it against the davit when I fell.
She carried four whaleboats, each thirty feet long, slung on davits, two to a side.
The whaleboats were cleaned, lowered and raised again, the men on the davits chanting an old whaling capstan song to lighten the chore.