See cathead on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXV, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 270:",
"text": "[T]he whole canvass of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible, everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and catheaded, and the ship under headway.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of cat (“to hoist (an anchor) so that it hangs at the cathead (noun sense 1.1)”)"
],
"links": [
[
"nautical",
"nautical"
],
[
"cat",
"cat#English"
],
[
"hoist",
"hoist#Verb"
],
[
"anchor",
"anchor#Noun"
],
[
"hangs",
"hang#Verb"
],
[
"cathead",
"cathead#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, nautical) Synonym of cat (“to hoist (an anchor) so that it hangs at the cathead (noun sense 1.1)”)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "(“to hoist (an anchor) so that it hangs at the cathead (noun sense 1.1)”)",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "cat"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"nautical",
"transport"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkæthɛd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkætˌ(h)ɛd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cat-head"
}
],
"word": "cathead"
}
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