What is "belaying pins"

Usage examples of "belaying pins".

Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the whaling hands at the far table were all standing up, drawing cudgels and belaying pins from their belts, grinning to one another.

Steve took a couple of belaying pins from their holes in the rail.

A close inspection of the monkeys' belaying pins disclosed the great number of hits that had been deflected by their little friends.

Inside the bag was an assortment of shattered belaying pins and chunks of wood.

The German was obviously disposed to fight, but he saw the belaying pins and reconsidered.

There was a rack of belaying pins handy to where he sat down, and when he came up he had one of them in his hand.

Feet moved across the deck in a dance more neatly choreographed than any ballet, making lines fast to belaying pins, cleats, and bits.

Hanald stood behind the wheel, boot-knives raised, holding off Mateus who held belaying pins.

While Jackson went off to collect some belaying pins, Ramage looked at the boat again with the night glass.

The Thane girl pitched backward, saving herself from a fall with a half-controlled dozen-step stagger that brought her back painfully against the rack of belaying pins about the Zingas Vetri’.