A ring mounted on a boat to guide a rope, keeping it clear of obstructions and preventing it from cutting or chafing.
（船上的）导缆孔，导缆器
Example sentencesExamples
For example, a hoop-shaped piece of metal fastened to the deck (picture an upside-down ‘U’) is a fairlead if you use it to guide a line running through it.
Fairly soon I tire of standing, looking stupid, so using a drainage channel as a fairlead, I loop the rope round a tree and stick a couple of half hitches in it.
Towards the edge of the deck are a pair of mooring bollards and a fairlead.
As you near the stern, a large iron cleat or fairlead lies diagonally across the wreck, followed by a pair of bollards slightly to the port side.
As your boat veers, will your lines, bow-roller, cleats and fairleads stay in place under thousands of pounds of athwartship load?
Definition of fairlead in US English:
fairlead
nounˈferlēd
A ring mounted on a boat or ship to guide a rope, keeping it clear of obstructions and preventing it from being cut or chafed.
（船上的）导缆孔，导缆器
Example sentencesExamples
Towards the edge of the deck are a pair of mooring bollards and a fairlead.
Fairly soon I tire of standing, looking stupid, so using a drainage channel as a fairlead, I loop the rope round a tree and stick a couple of half hitches in it.
As you near the stern, a large iron cleat or fairlead lies diagonally across the wreck, followed by a pair of bollards slightly to the port side.
For example, a hoop-shaped piece of metal fastened to the deck (picture an upside-down ‘U’) is a fairlead if you use it to guide a line running through it.
As your boat veers, will your lines, bow-roller, cleats and fairleads stay in place under thousands of pounds of athwartship load?