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Binnacle

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Binnacle"

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Word	Definition
bittaclenoun	(obsolete) A binnacle.
compensatornoun	Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance.
telltale	Revealing something, especially something not intended to be known.
bibbsnoun	(nautical) Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.
bailernoun	A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.
bittnoun	(nautical) A bollard.
billetheadnoun	(nautical) A carved wooden decoration, usually at the bow of a vessel, generally smaller than a figurehead
bow compassnoun	A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil or pen for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring rather than a joint.
breakernoun	Something that breaks (something else).
bucklernoun	A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
pyxisnoun	(astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the compass of a ship. It is associated with the larger Argo Navis, although it was never officially part of that constellation.
bellsnoun	(nautical) Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark the passage of time.
beamnoun	A broad smile.
pillownoun	A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
kevilnoun	(nautical) A sturdy belaying pin for the heavier cables of a ship.
bullseyenoun	(military, firearms) The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
paddleboxnoun	(nautical) The upper covering of a paddle wheel.
bitt-pinnoun	(nautical) A device like a belaying pin but of heavier scantlings; a turned length of wood or metal passed through the bitts or cross-piece, used to prevent the cable from slipping off or over the bitt-heads yet removable so as to facilitate doing so.
chip lognoun	(nautical) A simple device for measuring the speed of a vessel, consisting of a wooden board (drag) attached to a line on a reel.
sharp endnoun	Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sharp, end.