davits in English
noun
1
a small crane on board a ship, especially one of a pair for suspending or lowering a lifeboat.
The main points of interest on the three deck levels are the railings, lifeboat davits and companionways.
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1. It was an organized move on the part of the sailors, evidently Countenanced by the captain; for by the time we arrived where the gangway had been, it was being hoisted up, and the skiff, slung in the ship's davits, was likewise flying aloft out of reach.