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Billy Pugh en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after Billy Pugh, American deckhand who invented the device and founded the Billy Pugh Company in 1957.

Meanings

1. A type of personnel basket for transferring people between vessels or other structures at sea or over water.
   • A special net, called a Billy Pugh net after its inventor, lifts the astronauts, one by one, into the waiting rescue chopper. 2020, John Rocco, How We Got to the Moon, page 235:
   • Billy Pughs were used at many lighthouses. 2008, Betty S. Veronico, Lighthouses of the Bay Area, Arcadia Publishing, page 42:
   • The crew stood on the deck of the supply boat, waiting in silence for the crane to lower the "Billy Pugh". 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 199:

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