Cada uno de los postes de madera o de hierro que, en la parte de proa de la cubierta, sirven para dar vuelta a los cables del ancla cuando se fondea la nave.
tree trunk, stump · bollard; post · book, writing; notebook, account book
çekim: çoğul caudicēs · tamlayan caudicis
köken: Uncertain. Most likely to be connected to cūdō (“to beat, strike”), both deriving from the same dental extension of Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂-, *keh₂w- (“to beat, hew, chop”), and so originally meant “that which has been cleaved off”. See also cauda (“tail”). Another possibility is a relation to caulis (“stalk”), if this is an l-stem derivative of the same ultimate root, perhaps *ḱawh₁- (“to…
straight, pointed plant shoot (of bamboo and mangroves) · buttress roots (of banyan etc.) · stump, tree stump (the remains of a tree that has been cut off)