Deck timbers used to belay large ropes.

A pair of vertical wooden or iron heads on board ship, used for securing mooring or towing lines. Similar to dock bollards.

heavy timbers in the deck to which ropes can be secured Source: Maritime Curators Group: Manual of Curatorship

Twin stout posts welded to the deck to which mooring lines are fastened.

mooring fixtures on the deck of a ship. Their counterparts ashore are bollards.

Heavy, upright posts, strongly fastened to the hull, used for securing lines connecting the boat to the shore, to tows

A shipboard mooring fixture comprised of a pair of cylindrical posts. Similar to a pair of BOLLARDs.

Stout pieces of timber fitted in the deck to receive the bowsprit ; also stout pieces of timber fitted in the deck by the side of the mast, to which the halyards are usually belayed.

(nautical,pluralonly) 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 ride [..]