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Bowline
noun · 78% connection
A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Copper-fastened
adjective · 78% connection
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Cordage
noun · 78% connection
Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Epicycle
noun · 78% connection
A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Fish
verb · 78% connection
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Fore-topmast
noun · 78% connection
The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgallant mast. See Ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Gripe
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Guard
verb · 78% connection
An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Gybe
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Half-mast
noun · 78% connection
A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Keel
noun · 78% connection
A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Kevel
noun · 78% connection
A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Martingal
noun · 78% connection
A strap fastened to a horse's girth, passing between his fore legs, and fastened to the bit, or now more commonly ending in two rings,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Mast
noun · 78% connection
A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Mastful
adjective · 78% connection
Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Masthead
noun · 78% connection
The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Mizzenmast
noun · 78% connection
The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
Pirn
noun · 78% connection
A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing ro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: strong, side, vessel, mast, round.
