kink

The Sailor's Word-Book

An accidental curling, twist, or doubling turn in a cable or rope, occasioned by its being very stiff, or close laid, or by being drawn too hastily out of the coil or tier in which it was coiled. (See coiling.)

♦ To kink. To twist.

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