It's a small platform at the fore part of the upper deck, where the crew go to do their business over the water. knightheads the two timbers rising from the keel which support the inner end of the bowsprit. ❋ Lili (2006)
This time next week, I will tell all of my faithful readers what the following are: beakhead knightheads scantlings (sounds like a nice title for a novel ...) tumblehome (so does that) bulwark ❋ Lili (2006)
The hands spent their free moments on the forecastle, round the knightheads, gazing at Brixham and Brixham Pier; even in that wind with its deluges of rain there were women to be seen occasionally, women in skirts, at whom the crew stared like so many Tantaluses. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)
Busy though the ship was, there were nevertheless a few idlers round the knightheads who shrank away in panic at the remarkable sight of their captain here. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)
Before we realized what was happening, we had been forced back away from Neddie and had retreated to the knightheads. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)
Mr. Broadrick was forward between the knightheads with the crew ranged to the starboard and at the braces, while Gerrit Ammidon stood with one hand on the quarter-deck railing and the other holding a brass speaking trumpet to his lips: ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)
He accordingly came forward, turned all hands to, with tackles on the stays and back-stays, coming up with the seizings, hauling here, belaying there, and full of business, standing between the knightheads to sight the mast, when the captain came forward, and also began to give orders. ❋ Unknown (1909)
In a few moments, a heavier sea was raised than I had ever seen before, and as it was directly ahead, the little brig, which was no better than a bathing machine, plunged into it, and all the forward part of her was under water; the sea pouring in through the bow-ports and hawse-hole and over the knightheads, threatening to wash everything overboard. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The mate then took his place between the knightheads to twig the fore, on the windlass to twig the main, and at the foot of the mainmast, for the mizen; and if anything was wrong, too much bunt on one side, clews too taught or too slack, or any sail abaft the yard, the whole must be dropped again. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The swinging kerosene lamp cast its light forward past the heel of the bowsprit to the knightheads, lighting here ❋ Unknown (1907)
"Wisht he was here!" murmured a voice from a bunk near the knightheads. ❋ Unknown (1907)
He frequently sat on the capstan, but so far as I can learn he more usually took up his position on or against the knightheads. ❋ Richard Runciman Terry (1901)
The people rushed from the guns, and crowded out upon the bowsprit, the spritsail-yard, and the knightheads. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)
While this was happening, the corposant on the bowsprit-end also let go its hold and came floating inboard along the spar, causing a regular stampede of the watch, who incontinently came rushing aft as far as the mainmast, to get out of the way of their uncanny visitor, which, however, vanished as it reached the knightheads. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
So these two mites, procuring each a loaded pistol, crawled out quietly to their respective places, straddled the yard, and were proceeding to business, when the boatswain caught sight of them from his frequent stand-point between the knightheads. ❋ Unknown (1877)
If this holds water, it, like forecastle, and after-guard, and knightheads, gives another instance of survival from conditions which have long ceased. ❋ Unknown (1877)
"Bedad ye're tremblin 'all over, loike a shaved monkey wid the ag'ey, sure," he said as he yawned and stretched himself, rising from his seat on the knightheads, where he was supposed to be keeping a strict look - out in the absence of the other men from forward. ❋ William Heysham Overend (1874)
"Hove short, sir!" soon sang out the second mate from his station on the knightheads, when the anchor was up and down under our forefoot. ❋ William Heysham Overend (1874)
