CATHEAD

Definition: CATHEAD

CATHEAD

Noun

1. A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CATHEAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)

Crosswords: CATHEAD

C.L. Saxton, driller; J.G. Betz, Cathead man; and L.C. Westerman, eating lunch around oil well in C.C. Graber pool of Continental oil company. Moundridge area near McPherson, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Bulgarian 

подкранова греда. (various references)

Danish

kranbjaelke (davit). (various references)

Dutch

ankerkraanbalk. (various references)

Finnish

nostaa poraustorni (to cathead a derrick up). (various references)

French

bossoir d'ancre. (various references)

German

Ankerkranbalken. (various references)

Greek 

καπόνι άγκυρας, επωτίδα άγκυρας. (various references)

Italian

innalzare una torre di perforazione (to cathead a derrick up), innalzare un derrick (to cathead a derrick up), gli speciali cabestani di svitamento e avvitamento compiono ora automaticamente le loro funuioni,senza il necessario intervento di un manovale al tamburo di manovra (special break-out and make-up catheads now automatically perform the make-up and break-out operations without requiring the services of a roughneck on the cathead drum). (various references)

Pig Latin

atheadcay.(various references)

Portuguese

turco (ottoman, turk, turkish). (various references)

Russian 

кат-балка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nosač za sidro. (various references)

Spanish

serviola (davit, lookout, lookout man, prow, watchman). (various references)

Swedish

resa ett borrtorn (to cathead a derrick up), montera ett borrtorn (to cathead a derrick up). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "CATHEAD": catheads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CATHEAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cactaeae, Calhaem, Cathab, Cathan, Cathar, Cathayan, cathe, catheder, cathera, cathood, catshead, craphead, Katshuda. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chaeta, datcha, detach.

-2 letters: aahed, aceta, ached, acted, ahead, cadet, cheat, dacha, death, hated, tache, teach, theca.

-3 letters: aced, ache, acta, cade, cate, chad, chat, dace, data, date, each, eath, etch, hade, haed, haet, hate, head, heat, tace, tach, thae.

-4 letters: aah, ace, act, aha, ate, cad, cat, dah, eat, edh, eta, eth, had.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: attached, catheads, cathedra.

+2 letters: cathedrae, cathedral, cathedras, octahedra.

+3 letters: brachiated, cathedrals, deathwatch, detachable, detachably, machinated, octahedral, packthread, parachuted, reattached, tracheated, unattached.

+4 letters: anticathode, cachinnated, camphorated, cantharides, charactered, handcrafted, headachiest, nonattached, packthreads, tetradrachm.

+5 letters: acetaldehyde, achromatized, anticathodes, carbohydrate, deathwatches, endotracheal, hallucinated, handicrafter, machicolated, octahedrally, procathedral, tetradrachms.