The span attached to the cringles on the leech of a square sail to which the bowline is toggled or clinched.
·noun A mooring hawser. II. Bridle ·noun A restraint; a curb; a check. III. Bridle ·vt To put a br...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Three Hebrew words are thus rendered in the Authorized Version. 1) Heb. mahsom' signifies a muzzle ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
See mooring-bridle and bowline-bridle. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by sub...
A rope leading forward which is fastened to a space connected by bridles to cringles on the leech or...
·- A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, ·et...
a road for a horse only. N. BRIDLE-WAY and BRIDLE-ROAD. Kent. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...
The fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each hawse-hole, or bridle-port. ...
A stout chain with a hook at each end for attaching a tow-rope to; also, a large towing-hook in the ...
The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passin...
An eye worked into the leech-rope of a sail; usually in that of a fore-sail two, a main-sail three, ...
A hearty and simultaneous bowse. (See one! two!! three!!!) In hauling the bowline it is customary fo...
That by which the bowline-bridles were fastened to the cringles: the bowline-knot is made by an invo...
The bowline of the fore-sail. ...
A ship sailing close-hauled is "on a taut bowline." ...
The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...
Close to the wind, when the sail will not stand without hauling the bowlines. ...
Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...