timberhead

From timber +‎ head.

timberhead (plural timberheads)

1. (nautical) The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.
   • 1985, The Great Circle, page 32:

     If one refers to af chapman one finds that while only three drawings of comparable ships show boomkins fitted, all drawings of bluff-headed ships show either an extra timberhead or a half-round cutting in the top of the hawse piece to accommodate this spar when needed.

• “timberhead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.