pendant
A small line attached to a mooring chain. Also sometimes called a pennant.
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PENDANT: The line by which a boat is connected to a mooring buoy; a short rope hanging from a spar having at its free end a spliced thimble or a block.
PENNANT: Any nautical flags that taper to a point and used for identification.
pendant - A stout rope or wire to which tackles are attached. Also used to change the position of sails by lengthening the distance at tack or head ...
pendant
Pronounced "pennant". A short length of wire, chain, or line used for a specialized purpose. A mooring pendant secures the boat ot the mooring, a tack pendant raises the sail above waves.
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Pendant
Short rope serving as an extension of a line, chain, cable with descriptive name based on use, e.g., mooring pendant.
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Reef pendant -- A strong rope with a Matthew Walker knot in one end. It is passed up through a hole in the cleat on the boom, and then through the reef cringle in the sail and down through the hole in the cleat on the other side of the boom.
PENNANT (sometimes PENDANT) - The line by which a boat is made fast to a mooring buoy.
Stay Tackles, main and fore, are composed of double and single blocks: the double blocks are spliced into a pendant; the single blocks have a long strap, like pL 9, figs. 48, 49,50. The pendants have. a span from the fore to the main.
Ground and catting chains have been superseded in some ships by a wire pendant and cat hook; the anchor is then hove close up to the hawse-pipe.
A buoy marking the location of a mooring. Usually attached to an anchor by a small pendant.
mooring line
A line used to secure a boat to an anchor, dock, or mooring.
Bee Blocks:
Wooden swells on each side of the after end of a boom, having sheaves through which to lead the leech reefing pendants.
pennant - 1 - A small flag, such as can be used for signaling. Flags can be used together to spell words or individually as codes, such as the quarantine flag. 2 - A small line attached to a mooring chain, sometimes called a pendant.
These chains are also called "rudder pendants". RUDDER FRAME A term applied to a vertical main piece and the arms that project from it which form the frame of the rudder. It may be a casting, a forging, or a weldment. RUDDER PINTLES See pintles.
 See also: Point, Boat, Anchor, Line, Forward
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