Breast-hooks
Shipbuilding
Large pieces of compass timber fixed within and athwart the bows of the ship, of which they are the principal security, and through which they are well bolted. There is generally one between each deck, and three or four below the lower deck, fayed upon the plank. Those below are placed square to the shape of the ship at their respective places. The breast-hooks that receive the ends of the deck-planks are also called deck-hooks, and are fayed close home to the timbers in the direction of the decks.
