Billethead
- n. A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.