'Bell buoy' definitions:
Definition of 'Bell buoy'
From: GCIDE
- Buoy \Buoy\ (bwoi or boi; 277), n. [D. boei buoy, fetter, fr. OF. boie, buie, chain, fetter, F. bou['e]e a buoy, from L. boia. "Boiae genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae." --Festus. So called because chained to its place.] (Naut.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor.
- Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves.
- Breeches buoy. See under Breeches.
- Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.
- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped.
- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them.
- Nut buoy or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end.
- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.
- Whistling buoy, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves. [1913 Webster]