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• billet head
• billet-head

語源

billet +‎ head

名詞

billethead (複数形 billetheads)

1. (nautical) A carved wooden decoration, usually at the bow of a vessel, generally smaller than a figurehead
   • 1840, [Richard Henry Dana Jr.], “Chapter XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. 106), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], OCLC 191240091:

     we painted her on the outside, giving her open ports in her streak, and finishing off the nice work upon the stern, where sat Neptune in his car, holding his trident, drawn by sea-horses; and re-touched the gilding and coloring of the cornucopia which ornamented her billet-head.