A type of marine rope winch used for nautical applications invented by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 1300s. When full off rope it resembled a type of tree known as negro cabeca or darkhead or blackhead or literally niggerhead in English. Named 300 years before the word nigger was ever used to describe someone of African descent in any form of literature. Also known as a capstan, windlass, gypsy or a bollard with rope on it

Archaic term for a bollard, that is, a very large cleat fastened to a pier which is used to secure ships to the pier with lines of heavy rope. Used by longshoremen and enlisted men in the Navy until both were integrated.

A large rock, or boulder.