davit
- n a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat)
- Returning from Bermuda in recent years he saw an old Grottie, ten years out, climb an ocean liner's davit to wave goodbyes.
- The steel arms swung each passenger, chair all, to the end of a davit clear of the ship.
- The ship's starboard davit had been smashed by a shell that sprayed fragments of steel over bridge, starboard passage and deck.