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Rate | Answer | Clue |
REEF | Shorten (mainsail) | |
TRUNCATE | Shorten | |
DOCK | Shorten | |
ABRIDGE | Shorten | |
ABBREVIATE | Shorten | |
SHORT | To shorten. | |
SHORTENING | Of Shorten | |
SHORTENED / | Of Shorten | |
TAKE UP | Shorten a garment | |
TAKEUP | Shorten a garment | |
CURTAIL | Shorten shadow behind dog | |
VOW | Promise to shorten vowels | |
WELK | To contract; to shorten. | |
APHETIZE | To shorten by aphesis. | |
ACHED | Longed to shorten account he had written | |
DETUNCATE | To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off. | |
MAIN YARD | The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. | |
BRIEF | To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings. | |
MAINSHEET | One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed. | |
UPSET | To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. | |
BALANCE | To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail. | |
TUCK | A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait. | |
GALIOT | A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail. | |
BRIGANTINE | A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail. | |
RETRACT | To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. |