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Air-tight
adjective · 78% connection
So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Balance
noun · 78% connection
To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
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: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Check
verb · 78% connection
To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Efficient
noun · 78% connection
Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; cha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Gather
verb · 78% connection
To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
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: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
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: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Hog
verb · 78% connection
To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Inefficient
adjective · 78% connection
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Intense
adjective · 78% connection
Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Lax
verb · 78% connection
Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Overwind
verb · 78% connection
To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Rain-tight
adjective · 78% connection
So tight as to exclude rain; as, a rain-tight roof.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Remiss
adjective · 78% connection
Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Render
verb · 78% connection
To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Rope
verb · 78% connection
To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
Rounding
noun · 78% connection
Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tight, stretched, slack, said, rope.
