Towrope: alternatives and connections

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries…

Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

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…

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.

A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smal…

A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or haw…

A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be…

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…

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls…

To equip with an engine; -- said especially of steam vessels; as, vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…

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…

A splice formed by bending a rope's end back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.

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…

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…

A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together l…

To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.