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HAWSER | Mooring rope or cable | |
CABLED | Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. | |
KNECK | The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out. | |
KECKLING | Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t. | |
NIPPERS | A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger. | |
TRIPPING | The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope. | |
UNBIT | To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable. | |
STIRRUP | A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope. | |
TRIP | To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. | |
LAY | 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. | |
BEND | 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. | |
WORM | To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope. | |
CABLE | A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable. | |
FOUL | Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out. | |
SERVE | To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving. | |
MESSENGER | A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. | |
BREECHING | A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged. | |
CUCKOLD'S KNOT | 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 cuckold's neck. | |
COLLAR | An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured. | |
KECKLE | To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice. | |
ANCHOR | 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 fluke or... | |
TOGGLE | ...ove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capabl... | |
CAPSTAN | A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much ... | |
LOCKEDUP | Secured | |
TELEGRAM | Cable |