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Anchor
noun · 78% connection
A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
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: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Bend
verb · 78% connection
To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Bleeding
noun · 78% connection
A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Cable
noun · 78% connection
A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension brid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Cabled
adjective · 78% connection
Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Cablelaid
adjective · 78% connection
Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Capstan
noun · 78% connection
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Controller
noun · 78% connection
An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Conveyor
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Courser
noun · 78% connection
A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Diagonal
noun · 78% connection
(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Distortion
noun · 78% connection
The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
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: twisting, rope, cable, running.
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: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Foul
superl. · 78% connection
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get fou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.
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: twisting, rope, cable, running.
Grommet
noun · 78% connection
A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: twisting, rope, cable, running.