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Apparel
noun · 78% connection
The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Becket
noun · 78% connection
A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Binder
noun · 78% connection
Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Boatswain
noun · 78% connection
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the cr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Bottomry
noun · 78% connection
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
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: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Breastband
noun · 78% connection
A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Collar
noun · 78% connection
An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Cord
verb · 78% connection
To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Eye
noun · 78% connection
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Fair-leader
noun · 78% connection
A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Flower
noun · 78% connection
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Furniture
verb · 78% connection
The masts and rigging of a ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Grist
noun · 78% connection
In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Guy
noun · 78% connection
A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Hoarseness
noun · 78% connection
Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Ironwork
noun · 78% connection
Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
Knot
noun · 78% connection
A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ropes, cords, collectively, hence, anything.
