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timberheads

timberheads is the plural of timberhead.

Meaning of timberhead

Noun

timberhead (plural timberheads)

  1. The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.
    • If one refers to af chapman one finds that while only three drawings of comparable ships show boomkins fitted, all drawings of bluff-headed ships show either an extra timberhead or a half-round cutting in the top of the hawse piece to accommodate this spar when needed.1985, The Great Circle, page 32

Questions about timberheads

What is timberheads the plural of?
Timberheads is the plural of timberhead.

Words near timberheads in the dictionary

  1. timberer
  2. timberers
  3. timbergetter
  4. timbergetters
  5. timberhead
  6. timberheads
  7. timbering
  8. timberings
  9. timberish
  10. timberjack
  11. timberjacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: timberheads (page history and authors); timberhead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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