noun nautical, construction a crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun nautical A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.called also boat davits.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.noun A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship - called also the fish davit.noun Nautical, one of a pair of projecting pieces of wood or iron on the side or stern of a vessel, used for suspending or lowering and hoisting a boat, by means of sheaves and pulleys.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A small crane that projects over the side of a ship and is used to hoist boats, anchors, and cargo.The whaleboats were cleaned, lowered and raised again, the men on the davits chanting an old whaling capstan song to lighten the chore.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. She carried four whaleboats, each thirty feet long, slung on davits, two to a side. I knew I was lying in the scuppers with my head cut must have struck it against the davit when I fell. I doing there with my head in the scuppers, inches away from the davits? My head was lying in the scuppers, inches away from one of the lifeboat davits. The lifeboats from the Titanic had been taken off first, the davits had been moved into place, and the boats lowered as they had been when they left the sinking ship four days before, only this time the boats were lowered with only a single seaman in each, as the survivors stood at the rail and watched while lightning bolts lit up the night sky, and thunder exploded overhead.Īs for the boat, some of the crew the murderer or murderers had cut it from the davits and tied it to the stern by a painter. Small groups of men were uncovering each of the lifeboats at random, and tossing in lanterns and tins of biscuits, but the crowds were still holding back as crewmen moved to the davits and began turning the cranks that swung the lifeboats out and then lowered them to where they could be boarded by the extremely hesitant group that stood and watched them. Worse yet, supposing she asks for Davits and he still stands there like a video extra or something elsesay, some yellowbellied embodiment named Cringe? I am climbing down from the davits in haste when I hear Billy Lanney beseeching Hammerhead Jack. He did not bring those uncouth vermiculations to a stop until he was well back in the shelter of a rusty capstan, cut off from the light by a lifeboat swinging on its davits.ĭeparting from Nukualofu just ahead of the carriers was a group of high-sided gray transports, their decks green with Marine fatigue uniforms and ringed with small landing craft hanging from their davits. He found a tin can - possibly left in a leaky boat before its final boist to the davits - and gave her a drink, to which he had added a few drops of the whisky.īilly climbed aboard, and he and Durant hoisted the yawl-boat on her davits. Although this was a shore-to-shore operation which required only one night spent in the English Channel, big transports with landing craft on davits were employed in addition to beaching craft.
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