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Barge
noun · 78% connection
A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Barque
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Boat
noun · 78% connection
Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Boat bug
unknown · 78% connection
An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Bridle
noun · 78% connection
A mooring hawser.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Cable
noun · 78% connection
A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Dispassionate
adjective · 78% connection
Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Drag
verb · 78% connection
To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Fake
verb · 78% connection
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Fast
noun · 78% connection
That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Gauche
noun · 78% connection
Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
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: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
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: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Helicoid
noun · 78% connection
A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Inch
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechani…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
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: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.
Length
adjective · 78% connection
The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rope, hawser, vessel, towed, warped.