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Backstay
noun · 78% connection
A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Batten
n . · 78% connection
A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
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: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Block
noun · 78% connection
To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Bridle
noun · 78% connection
A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Cap
verb · 78% connection
To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Cat's-paw
noun · 78% connection
A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Clinch
noun · 78% connection
A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Conceal
verb · 78% connection
To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Contretemps
noun · 78% connection
An unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Cuckold's knot
unknown · 78% connection
A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Deter
verb · 78% connection
To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Dunnage
noun · 78% connection
Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Elbow
noun · 78% connection
Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
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: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
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: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
Freshen
verb · 78% connection
To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
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: cover, part, rope, marline, marking.
