Definition of "knightheads" []

• Plural form of knighthead. (noun)

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• "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"
• "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."
• "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."