"cat-head" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"Hurrah, for the last time!\" said the mate; and the anchor came to the cat-head to the tune of \"Time for us to go,\" with a loud chorus. Everything was done quick, as though it were for the last time.",
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          "ref": "1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 325, column 1:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "[T]he whole canvas of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible, everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and cat-headed, and the ship under headway.",
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