carrick bitt

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   either of a pair of strong posts that support a windlass on a ship's deck

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Questions about carrick bitt

What does carrick bitt mean?

carrick bitt means "either of a pair of strong posts that support a windlass on a ship's deck".

Is carrick bitt a common word?

carrick bitt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.