dead eyes - Blocks in the shroud rigging used to adjust tension. A circular block, with three holes in it (crow-foot fashion) without sheaves, formerly used to reeve the lanyards through for setting up the rigging.
SET UP To tighten the nut on a bolt or stud; to bring the shrouds of a mast to a uniform and proper tension by adjusting the rigging screws or the lanyards through the dead eyes.
The principal changes in rig of late years follow: The substitution of turnbuckles and rigging screws for the old fashioned dead eyes and lanyards; the reduction of the length of the bowsprit because of the long overhang forward, ...
 See also: Timbers, Fore, Light, Beam, Cleat
  
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