lizard

The Sailor's Word-Book

A piece of rope, sometimes with two legs, and one or more iron thimbles spliced into it. It is used for various purposes; one is often made fast to the topsail-tye, for the buntlines to reeve through, to confine them to the centre of the yard. A lizard with a tail and thimble is used as a fair lead, to lead out where the lift runs in a line with the object. The lower boom topping-lift is thus helped by carrying the lizard out to the fore-brace block. In yards sent aloft ready for crossing, the lizard confines the yard rope until the order is given, "Sway across," when, letting the lizard run, all cross simultaneously.

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Lizard
·noun A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends. II. Lizard ·noun ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Only in Lev. 11:30, as rendering of Hebrew letaah, so called from its "hiding." Supposed to be the L...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Lizard
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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n. See jew-lizard. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
frilled-lizard
n. See quotation. 1875, G. Bennett, `Proceedings of Royal Society of Tasmania,'p. 56: «Notes on t...

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green lizard
n. sometimes called the Spotted Green Lizard, a New Zealand reptile, Naultinus elegans, Gray. ...

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jew-lizard
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lace-lizard
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sleepy lizard
i.q. blue-tongued lizard (q.v.). ...

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spiny-lizard
n. i.q. Mountain Devil (q.v.). ...

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blue-tongued lizard
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brown tree-lizard
n. of New Zealand, Naultinus pacificus. ...

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orange-spotted lizard
(of New Zealand), Naultinuselegans, Gray. ...

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stump-tailed lizard
n. an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray. ...

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