guess-warp

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• Guess warp

  ·- A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; — so called because it is necessary...

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• Guess

  ·vt To hit upon or reproduce by memory. II. Guess ·vt To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons ...

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• to guess

  1. To conjecture; to judge without any certain principles of judgment. 2. To conjecture rightly, o...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• guess

  to suppose. I GUESS so. Derb. ...

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

• Warp

  ·vt To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. II. Warp ·v Four; ·esp., four herrings; a cast. ·see <<Cast>...

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• warp

  to lay eggs ; a hen warps or warys. N. ...

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

• warp

  A rope or light hawser, employed occasionally to transport a ship from one place to another in a por...

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• Another-guess

  ·adj Of another sort. ...

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• Guess rope

  ·- A guess warp. ...

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• guess-rope

  See guess-warp ...

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• Warp knitting

  ·add. ·- A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more cont...

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• mould-warp

  the same ; from the Low Dutch, WORPEN, to cast forth, and MOLDE, earth. N. ...

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

• guest-warp boom

  A swinging spar (lower studding-boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by. ...

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• run out a warp, to

  To carry a hawser out from the ship by a boat, and fasten it to some distant place to remove the shi...

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• under-run a warp, to

  To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...

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