HELP - Stuck for a word!

[neonlyte]

What is the name of the thing on a quayside (that looks like a deformed knob) that you moor boats to. I know it, can't remember it and it's stopping the flow. Done all the words searches I can think off and drawn a blank.

Please supply word and hi-jack thread at will

 

[Colleen Thomas]

What is the name of the thing on a quayside (that looks like a deformed knob) that you moor boats to. I know it, can't remember it and it's stopping the flow. Done all the words searches I can think off and drawn a blank.

Please supply word and hi-jack thread at will

Mooring masts I believe is what they are called.

-Colly

 

[neonlyte]

Re: Re: HELP - Stuck for a word!

Mooring masts I believe is what they are called.

-Colly

Thanks Colly, but it's not the word I'm looking for. These are low level, right at the waters edge, round, usually metal with a nobbly head to stop the mooring rope slipping off.

Danged if I can remember what they are called, though they may be called mooring masts in the US.

 

[Weird Harold]

What is the name of the thing on a quayside (that looks like a deformed knob) that you moor boats to.

I think the word you're looking for is "Bollard" -- I'd check that against a dictionary befor using it; I have been known to be wrong occasionally.

 

[Guest]

I'm bloody useless at crosswords!

 

[neonlyte]

Re: Re: HELP - Stuck for a word!

I think the word you're looking for is "Bollard" -- I'd check that against a dictionary befor using it; I have been known to be wrong occasionally.

Great W-H!

My hearty thanks.

Bollard

Bollard

Bollard.

I think I've got it now.

Please hi-jack away. Any one got a favourite Ice-Cream?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Piling or pilar is also used I think.

-Colly

 

[Belegon]

Re: Re: Re: HELP - Stuck for a word!

Please hi-jack away. Any one got a favourite Ice-Cream?

Whenever anyone says this I always think of Thrifty Stores Double Chocolate Malted Crunch.

and then I remember Blueberry Cheesecake and Pink Bubblegum at Baskin Robbins.

 

[neonlyte]

Piling or pilar is also used I think.

-Colly

Thanks again Colly, Wierd Harold came up with the precise one I was looking for, we've moved on to favourite Ice Creams, mine Tartrufo - double chocolate with a kirsch soaked cherry centre.

 

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[neonlyte]

rtas! i was hoping it was the small metal. piece on the dock (i realise it is NOT)

the CLEAT.

because it is fun to SAY!

Nah... the CLEAT is a round ring through which you pass a mooring rope. The Cleat is attached to the ground by a smaller round cleat... which is buried underground attached to a even smaller...

What's you're favourite Ice Cream?

 

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[neonlyte]

cleatorice

Heehee....

 

[snooper]

The trouble starts when your bollards start banging against a cleat ....

Edited to correct to The fun starts when your bollards start banging against a cleat ....

 

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[TheEarl]

Re: Re: HELP - Stuck for a word!

I have been known to be wrong occasionally.

When? I wasn't aware this momentous event had happened.

The Earl

 

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[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: Re: HELP - Stuck for a word!

When? I wasn't aware this momentous event had happened.

The Earl

You must have blinked at the wrong time.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Just because I know everyone's interested, there's a difference betwen a dock or pier and a wharf or quay.

Docks and piers extend into the water and are designed for the loading and unloading of cargo and passengers. Wharfs and quays are designed for the same thing but run alongside the water.

And jetties? Forget them. A jetty is not designed for mooring ships and has more in common with a breakwater or mole.

---dr.M.

 

[neonlyte]

Just because I know everyone's interested, there's a difference betwen a dock or pier and a wharf or quay.

Docks and piers extend into the water and are designed for the loading and unloading of cargo and passengers. Wharfs and quays are designed for the same thing but run alongside the water.

And jetties? Forget them. A jetty is not designed for mooring ships and has more in common with a breakwater or mole.

---dr.M.

Shit. In the story they just tied up to a jetty!

Pier

Pier

Pier

Don't you just love it when people edit before you even asked them to.

Just a point Dr., and it may down to idiomatic usage, on this side of the stream we regard docks as places into which ships can enter, like a cargo dock, dry dock, floating dock. We tend to use harbour for dock in the sense you suggest.

Neon

 

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