Usually means: Crane for lowering boats, cargo.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. davit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. davit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. davit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. davit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. davit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Davit, davit: Wordnik
  7. davit: Wiktionary
  8. davit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. davit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. davit: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Davit, davit: Dictionary.com
  12. Davit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Davit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. davit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. davit: Rhymezone
  16. Davit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. davit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. davit: Free Dictionary
  19. davit: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. davit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. davit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. davit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DAVIT: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Davit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Davit(s), Davit(s), Davit(s): Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (davit)

noun:  (nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
noun:  (nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.

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