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Jun 16, 2010 12:06
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Bita
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I'm translating a list of specifications for different types of boats. One item in the list says:
Bita: Tiron 150 t
In case it helps, there's a diagram under the list item showing 'condition 1' and 'condition 2' of the 'bita', with the former simply showing what looks to be the x and y axes of a graph, labelled H and V respectively, and the latter showing the same diagram but with a third, unlabelled line running upwards from the corner of the two axes at an angle of 26 degrees to the x-axis.
Does anyone have any idea what Bita means?
Bita: Tiron 150 t
In case it helps, there's a diagram under the list item showing 'condition 1' and 'condition 2' of the 'bita', with the former simply showing what looks to be the x and y axes of a graph, labelled H and V respectively, and the latter showing the same diagram but with a third, unlabelled line running upwards from the corner of the two axes at an angle of 26 degrees to the x-axis.
Does anyone have any idea what Bita means?
Proposed translations
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| 4 +3 | bitt |
Mercedes Rizzuti
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| 5 | Samson post |
Peter Guest
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| 4 | bollard |
Dagnia
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bitt
A vertical post, usually one of a pair, set on the deck of a ship and used to secure ropes or cables
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Emilio Schulder
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Christine Walsh
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cranesfreak
: Agree. Mooring lines are run from bitts on deck through chocks to bollards on a pier when the ship is moored. ... www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/.../14160_ch...
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bollard
María Moliner says:
Nombre aplicado a los postes de madera fuertemente asegurados en la cubierta e un barco, en las proximidades de la proa, alrededor de los cuales se arrollan los cables del ancla cuando se fondea la nave.
Noun 1. bollard - a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines);
Nombre aplicado a los postes de madera fuertemente asegurados en la cubierta e un barco, en las proximidades de la proa, alrededor de los cuales se arrollan los cables del ancla cuando se fondea la nave.
Noun 1. bollard - a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines);
Example sentence:
"the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards"
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Peter Guest
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Samson post
If it's just one, it's known as a samson post. If two, bitts.
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