cat-heads

The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.

Youth, by Joseph Conrad 2004

The admiral signalled to weigh anchor and make sail, but few of the ships waited for the tedious operation of getting the heavy anchors up to the cat-heads by slow hand labour on windlass or capstan.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

They stand watch and watch, keep at night a look-out on the cat-heads, gangways, quarters, and halliards, where they are required to "sing out" their stations every half hour, to be sure that they are awake.

Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The galleons, many of them with badly damaged spars and rigging, many more without anchors at their cat-heads ready to bring them up, were being forced nearer and nearer to the low sandy shores that were marked only by the white foam of the breakers, and the leadsmen were giving warning that the keels were already dangerously near to the shelving bottom along the outlying fringe of shoals.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

On the cat-heads hung the anchors weighted with stone to fend off an enemy, astern towed the pinnace ready to drag alongside and break the force of the hostile ram.

A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

Mjolna [2] -- fishing bonita -- looked back, and there they all were, the same to-day as they were in olden days, I expect, men and boys, salt and sun-bitten sea-farers, lolling on the cat-heads and anchors.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain.

Youth And Two Other Stories 1899

From the surrounding men-of-war came the shrill pipe of the boatswains 'whistle, and the steady tramp of the men at the capstan bars as they dragged the anchors to the cat-heads.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the cat-heads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions -- forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.

Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169 Jack London 1896

Look at the anchors hanging from the cat-heads of a big ship!

The Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad 1890