thumb|Adjustable fairlead (lower right) leading to winch on sailboat thumb|Fairlead (Chock style) thumb|Three mooring lines (hawsers) running through fairlead on a [[Royal New Zealand Navy ship.]]
thumb|Adjustable fairlead (lower right) leading to winch on sailboat thumb|Fairlead (Chock style) thumb|Three mooring lines (hawsers) running through fairlead on a [[Royal New Zealand Navy ship.]]
A fairlead is a turning point for running rigging like rope, chain, wire or line, that guides that line such that the "lead" is "fair", and therefore low friction and low chafe. A fairlead can be a hook, ring, pulley, chock, or hawse (hole) sometimes surrounded by rollers.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).