Bollards [noun]

Pike was ready in the bow, with an arm tightly embracing the bollard, or strong post, round which the cable runs.

He was propped against a bollard and he was in his shore-going clothes.

They went to another bollard and there, the mariner anchoring himself, she began to talk.

And then a man would look to the after line from the ship to the bollard on the wharf, and leaped on the after deck close to me.

Not knowing the harbour, we had tied up to the first bollard, and gone incontinently to sleep.

“You will be soon to rights, Mr Patch,” said Bollard, looking kindly at him.

The bollard snapped with a dead, dull sound; I was entangled in the stout twine, and tossed into the sea.

He nearly swamped the launch, and the friction of the bollard threatened to set it ablaze.

The knight-heads or bollard timbers, where hawsers or heavy ropes are belayed.

He helped Tartarin to his feet, brushed him down and seated him, out of breath, on a bollard.