bend

Related Words

• Bend

  ·noun Hard, indurated clay; bind. II. Bend ·noun A <<Band>>. III. Bend ·noun Turn; purpose; inclin...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bend

  The chock of the bowsprit. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• yarra-bend

  n. equivalent to the English word Bedlam. The first lunatic asylum of the colony ofVictoria stood n...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bend-kitt

  a kind of great can with a cover. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• bend, to

  To fasten one rope to another, or to an anchor. The term is also applied to any sudden or remarkable...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bend-mould

  A mould made to form the futtocks in the square body, assisted by the rising-square and floor-hollow...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bend-roll

  A rest formerly used for a heavy musket. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bowline-bend

  The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passin...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• carrick-bend

  A kind of knot, formed on a bight by putting the end of a rope over its standing part, and then pass...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• fisherman's bend

  A knot, for simplicity called the king of all knots. Its main use is for bending studding-halliards ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• granny's bend

  The slippery hitch made by a lubber. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sheet-bend

  A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• slip-bend

  When a man makes a false step, and slips down a hatchway, or overboard. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Big Bend State

  ·add. ·- Tennessee; — a nickname. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• above one's bend

  Out of one's power; beyond reach. A common expression in the Western States. I shall not attempt to...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bend on the tack

  In hoisting signals, that piece of rope called the distant line which keeps the flags so far asunder...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• side out for a bend, to

  The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• try back for a bend, to

  To pay back some of the bight of a cable, in order to have sufficient to form the bend. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book