bending ropes

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• Bending

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Bend>>. II. Bending ·noun The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizonta...

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• ropes

  Upon the high ropes; elated, in high spirits, cock-a-hoop. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ropes

  guts. N. ...

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

• ropes

  A general name given to all the cordage above one inch in circumference used in rigging a ship; but ...

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• Rope's-end

  ·vt To punish with a rope's end. ...

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• high ropes

  To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• top ropes

  To sway away on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• high ropes

  'Upon the high ropes;' i. e. elated; in high spirits.--Grose, Prov. Dict. To be on the high ropes; ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• awning-ropes

  The ridge and side ropes for securing the awning. ...

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• dead-ropes

  Those which do not run in any block. ...

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• drag-ropes

  Those used in the artillery by the men in pulling the gun backwards and forwards in practice and in ...

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• side-ropes

  See entering-ropes ...

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• entering-ropes

  , or side-ropes. Three are sometimes used to aid in climbing the ship's side. They hang from the u...

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• foot-ropes

  Those stretching under the yards and jib-booms for the men to stand on; they are the same with horse...

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• hook-ropes

  A rope 6 or 8 fathoms long, with a hook and thimble spliced at one end, and whipped at the other: it...

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• port-ropes

  Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended. ...

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• ridge-ropes

  , are of various kinds. Thus the centre-rope of an awning, and those along the rigging to which it i...

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• ring-ropes

  Ropes rove through the ring of the anchor, to haul the cable through it, in order to bend or make it...

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• ropes, high

  ♦ On the high ropes. To be ceremonious, upstart, invested with brief authority. ...

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• rope's end

  The termination of a fall, and should be pointed or whipped. Formerly much used for illegal punishme...

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• tiller-ropes

  The ropes which form a communication between the end of the tiller and the barrel of the wheel; they...

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• weather-ropes

  An early term for those which were tarred. ...

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• wheel-ropes

  Ropes rove through a block on each side of the deck, and led round the barrel of the steering-wheel....

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• bending the cable

  The operation of clinching, or tying the cable to the ring of its anchor. The term is still used for...

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• marry, to, the ropes, braces, or falls

  To hold both together, and by pressure haul in both equally. Also so to join the ends of two ropes, ...

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