A method of coiling a rope that runs freely when let go; differing from the French, and was used for the head-braces. Each bend is slipped under the last, and the whole rendered flat and solid to walk on.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies disposed in a coil. (See coiling.) T...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. II. Flemish ·noun The language or dialect spoken by t...
See Flemings' Church Yard. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
n. a Tasmanian name for the Dusky Robin ( Petroica vittata). See Robin. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
An unseemly doubling in a badly coiled rope. ...
A name for what is merely a modification of the Flemish coil, both being extremely good for the obje...
A losing, or bad account. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
To coil down a rope concentrically in the direction of the sun, or coil of a watch-spring, beginning...
A deficit in accounts. ...
A kind of eye-splice, in which the ends are scraped down, tapered, passed oppositely, marled, and se...
, is the outer short foot-rope for the man at the earing; the outer end is spliced round a thimble o...