The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Half-moon

Engineering

A bar bent to a V shape, with both ends flattened and turned up for feet, through which it is riveted to the interior of boiler-shell. It is used in connection with a fork-end brace. Also called crow-foot.

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