The reins, or that part of the bridle which extends from the horse's head to the hands of the driver or coachman.
Were used for measuring and dividing land; and hence the word came to denote a portion or inheritanc...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
With shipwrights, are the various plans for determining the shape and form of the ship's body on the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so call...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·add. ·- Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to...
·add. ·- Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersec...
The ingenious contrivances for representing logarithmic sines and tangents, so useful in navigation,...
In ship-building, longitudinal curves representing the ship's fore-body cut in a vertical section. ...
In ship-building, the longitudinal curves at the rounding part of the after body in a vertical secti...
These are rove through thimbles at the eyes of the top-mast and top-gallant rigging, one end bent to...
A complete system of parallel lines, hoisted between the main and mizen masts twice a week to dry th...
Are for the same purpose as clue-garnets, only that the latter term is solely appropriated to the co...
In field-works, means a succession of fronts without any interruption, save the necessary passages; ...
Those which formerly went from the spritsail-topmast to the middle of the fore-stay, serving to stea...
Ropes fastened to the leeches of the main-sail, fore-sail, and cross-jack, communicating with blocks...
Lines determining the shape of a ship's body horizontally, or square from the middle line of the shi...
Stretched from gun to gun, and about the upper deck in bad weather, to prevent the men being washed ...
Small ropes passing up abaft a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, led through blocks attached to the tre...
A most ingenious substitution of a spider's long threads for wires in micrometer scales, intended fo...
Ropes contrived to keep the sails from blowing away when they are clued up, being rove before the sa...
The ropes by which the boat's steerage is managed. ...
Reeve through a block on the slings of the yard or under the top, and pass abaft the sail, making fa...
Intrenchments thrown up by a besieging army, outside itself, and round the besieged place, but front...
Continuous lines of intrenchment round the besieged fortress, and fronting towards it, to guard agai...
Lines extended from the jib-boom end around the ship, triced up to the lower yard-arms, for drying s...
A term given by shipwrights to those lines, or occult ribbands, by which the cant-timbers are laid o...
Those horizontal marks supposed to be described by the surface of the water on the bottom of a ship,...
The long stems of the sea-plant Chorda filum. ...