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Rope
·vt To lasso (a steer, horse).
II. Rope ·noun The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
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rope
v. tr.
to catch a horse or bullock with a noosedrope. It comes from the Western United States, wher...
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rope
Is composed of hemp, hide, wire, or other stuff, spun into yarns and strands, which twisted together...
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Cat
·noun A cat o' nine tails. ·see <<Below>>.
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cat
A common prostitute. An old cat; a cross old woman.
to cat
To vomit from drunkenness.
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cat, native
n.
a small carnivorous marsupial,of the genus Dasyurus. The so-called native cat is nota cat at all...
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cat
A ship formed on the Norwegian model, and usually employed in the coal and timber trade. These vesse...
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Drag rope
·add. ·- A guide rope.
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Glass-rope
·noun A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long ...
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Guess rope
·- A guess warp.
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Guest rope
·- The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
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Guide rope
·add. ·- A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its len...
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Rope-yarn
·noun the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.
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Top-rope
·noun A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
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Trail rope
·add. ·- ·same·as Guide rope, above.
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to rope in
To take or sweep in collectively; an expression much used in colloquial language at the West. It ori...
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back-rope
The rope-pendant, or small chain for staying the dolphin-striker. Also a piece long enough to reach ...
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bell-rope
A short rope spliced round a thimble in the eye of the bell-crank, with a double wall-knot crowned a...
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boat-rope
A separate rope veered to the boat to be towed at the ship's stern.
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bolt-rope
A rope sewed all round the edge of the sail, to prevent the canvas from tearing. The bottom part of ...
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breast-rope
The lashing or laniard of the yard-parrels. (See also horse.) Also, the bight of a mat-worked band f...
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bucket-rope
That which is tied to a bucket for drawing water up from alongside.
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buoy-rope
The rope which attaches the buoy to the anchor, which should always be of sufficient strength to lif...
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cant-rope
See four-cant.
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chest-rope
The same with the guest or gift rope, and is added to the boat-rope when the boat is towed astern of...
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clue-rope
In large sails, the eye or loop at the clues is made of a rope larger than the bolt-rope into which ...
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davit-rope
The lashing which secures the davit to the shrouds when out of use.
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foot-rope
The rope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. (See bolt-rope.)
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foul rope
A rope entangled or unfit for immediate use.
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gift-rope
[synonymous with guest-rope].
A rope for boats at the guest-warp boom.
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grapnel-rope
That which is bent to the grapnel by which a boat rides, now substituted by chain.
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guess-rope
See guess-warp
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head-rope
That part of the bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is according...
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heel-rope
That which hauls out the bowsprit in cutters, and the jib and studding-sail booms, or anything else ...
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jaw-rope
A line attached to the horns of the jaws to prevent the gaff from coming off the mast. It is usually...
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kedge-rope
The rope which belongs to the kedge-anchor, and restrains the vessel from driving over her bower-anc...
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keel-rope
A coarse rope formerly used for cleaning the limber-holes.
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leech-rope
A name given to that vertical part of the bolt-rope to which the border or edge of a sail is sewed. ...
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manilla rope
A valuable cordage made in the Philippines, which, not being subject to rot, does not require to be ...
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mast-rope
[Anglo-Saxon mæst-ràp]. That which is used for sending masts up or down.
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parrel-rope
Is formed of a single rope well served, and fitted with an eye at each end; this being passed round ...
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rope-bands
Small plaited lines rove through the eyelet holes with a running eye, by which the head of a sail, a...
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rope-house
A long building in a dockyard, where ropes are made.
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rope-ladder
Such as hangs over the stern, to enable men to go into boats, &c.
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rope-maker
A first-class petty officer in the navy.
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rope-yarn
The smallest and simplest part of any rope, being one of the large threads of hemp or other stuff, s...
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shroud-rope
A finer quality of hawser-laid rope than is commonly used for other purposes. It is also termed purc...
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slip-rope
A rope passed through anything in such a manner that it will render or may be slipped instantaneousl...
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slue-rope
A rope peculiarly applied for turning a spar or other object in a required direction.
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swab-rope
A line bent to the eye of a swab for dipping it overboard in washing it.
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top-rope
The mast-rope employed to sway up a top-mast or topgallant-mast, in order to fix it in its place, or...
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white-rope
Rope which has not been tarred. Manilla, coir, and some other ropes, do not require tarring.
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wire-rope
Rigging made of iron wire galvanized, and laid up like common cordage.
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yard-rope
Is only used for temporary purposes; the most usual application of the term is that by which a yard ...
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Cat-eyed
·adj Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
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Cat-harpin
·noun ·see Cat-harping.
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Cat-harping
·noun One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to gi...
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Cat-hole
·noun One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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Cat-rigged
·adj Rigged like a catboat.
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Cat-salt
·noun A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
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Cat-silver
·noun <<Mica>>.
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Cat-tail
·noun A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having i...
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Gib-cat
·noun A male cat, ·esp. an old one. ·see lst Gib. ·noun.
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Hell-cat
·noun A witch; a hag.
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Sea cat
·- The wolf fish.
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Tib-cat
·noun A female cat.
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Wild-cat
·adj Running without control; running along the line without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
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Cat Alley
North out of Long Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). "Catt Alley" (Stryp...
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cat-heads
A Woman's breasts.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cat call
A kind of whistle, chiefly used at theatres, to interrupt the actors, and damn a new piece. It deriv...
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cat lap
Tea, called also scandal broth.
See scandal broth.
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cat match
When a rook or cully is engaged amongst bad bowlers.
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cat sticks
Thin legs, compared to sticks with which boys play at cat.
See trap sticks.
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cat whipping
A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength, by laying a wager with ...
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cheshire cat
He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of anyone who shews his teeth and gums in laughing.
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gib cat
A northern name for a he cat, there commonly called Gilbert. As melancholy as a gib cat; as melancho...
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hell cat
A termagant, a vixen, a furious scolding woman.
See termagant and vixen.
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cat-bird
n.
In America the name is given to Mimus carolinensis, a mocking thrush, which like theAustralian b...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cat-fish
n.
The name is applied in the OldWorld to various fishes of the family Siluridae, andalso to the Wo...
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native cat
n.
See cat.
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tiger-cat
n.
special name appliedto the Common and Spotted-tailed Native Cat.See under Cat.
1832. J. Bischof...
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cat-tails
Hares-tail rush (erophorum vaginatum). So called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. This name is ...
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cat-ham'd
fumbling, awkward, without dexterity. Exmoor.
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whern-cat
a queen-cat, or female cat. QUEEN, in Saxon, was used to signify the female ; ex. g. QUEEN FUGOL, a ...
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wild-cat
the pole-cat. Lane.
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cat-beam
This, called also the beak-head beam, is the broadest beam in the ship, and is generally made of two...
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cat-block
A two or three fold block, with an iron strop and large hook to it, which is employed to cat or draw...
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cat-fall
The rope rove for the cat-purchase, by which the anchor is raised to the cat-head or catted.
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cat-fish
A name for the sea-wolf (Anarrhicas lupus).
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cat-gut
A term applied to the sea-laces or Fucus filum. (See sea-catgut.)
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cat-harpings
, or catharpin legs
Ropes under the tops at the lower end of the futtock-shrouds, serving to brace...
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cat-head
The cat-head passes through the bow-bulwark obliquely forward on a radial line from the fore-mast, r...
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cat-holes
Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...
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cat-hook
A strong hook which is a continuation of the iron strop of the cat-block, used to hook the ring of t...
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cat-lap
A common phrase for tea or weak drink.
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cat-rig
A rig which in smooth water surpasses every other, but, being utterly unsuited for sea or heavy weat...
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cat-stopper
, or cathead-stopper
A piece of rope or chain rove through the ring of an anchor, to secure it for...
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cat-tackle
A strong tackle, used to draw the anchor perpendicularly up to the cat-head, which latter is sometim...
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sea-cat
A name of the wolf-fish, Anarrhicas lupus.
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thieves' cat
A cat o' nine tails having knots upon it, and only used for the punishment of theft.
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buoy-rope knot
Used where the end is lashed to the shank. A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope,...
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cable-laid rope
Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope. Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand rope...
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hawser-laid rope
Is rope made in the usual way, being three or four strands of yarns laid up right-handed, or with th...
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laying a rope
Arranging the yarns for the strands, and then the strands for making a rope, or cable.
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right-hand rope
That which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is to the right hand; the term is opposed to wa...
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rope of sand
A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...
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water-laid rope
The same as cablet; it coils against the sun, or to the left hand.
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
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cat harping fashion
Drinking cross-ways, and not, as usual, over the left thumb. SEA TERM.
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cat in pan
To turn cat in pan, to change sides or parties; supposed originally to have been to turn CATE or CAK...
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whipping the cat
A trick often practised on ignorant country fellows, vain of their strength, by laying a wager with ...
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cherry-coloured cat
A black cat, there being black cherries as well as red.
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kit-cat club
A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. m...
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to shoot the cat
To vomit from excess of liquor; called also catting.
To vomit from drunkenness.
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cat-tail grass
Herds grass, or timothy.
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wild cat bank
One of the various terms applied at the West to some of the irresponsible banks of the country. A ba...
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cat the anchor
When the cat is hooked and "cable enough" veered and stoppered, the anchor hangs below the cat-head,...
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combing the cat
The boatswain, or other operator, running his fingers through the cat o' nine tails, to separate the...
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fore cat-harpings
See cat-harpings.
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every rope an-end
The order to coil down the running rigging, or braces and bowlines, after tacking, or other evolutio...
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lay of a rope
The direction in which its strands are twisted; hawser is right-handed; cablet left-handed.
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loose a rope, to
To cast it off, or let it go.
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Cat o' nine tails
·- ·see under <<Cat>>.
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The Cat and Fiddle Cheap
A shop called the "Catt and Fiddell" in the parish of St. Peter in Chepe, 4 Ed. VI. (Lond. I. p.m. I...
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cat and bagpipean society
A society which met at their office in the great western road: in their summons, published in the da...
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cat of nine tails
A scourge composed of nine strings of whip-cord, each string having nine knots.
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cat-with-two-tails
an earwig. Northum.
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salt-cat, or gate
a cake of salt used to decoy pigeons. North.
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cat o' nine tails
An instrument of punishment used on board ships in the navy; it is commonly of nine pieces of line o...
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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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standing part of a rope
The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...
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Cat and Wheel Alley, Bishopsgate
See Catherine Wheel Alley.
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to see how the cat jumps
A metaphorical expression meaning, to discover the secrets or designs of others.
We also say, in th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.