marline-holes

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• Marline

  ·vt To wind marline around; as, to marline a rope. II. Marline ·v A small line composed of two stra...

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• marline

  See line. ...

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• marline-spike

  An iron pin tapering to a point, and principally used to separate the strands of a rope, in order to...

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• dream-holes

  the openings left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c. for the admission of light. Glouc. ...

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• blow-holes

  The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...

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• bobstay-holes

  Those cut through the fore-part of the knee of the head, between the cheeks, for the admission of th...

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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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• eyelet-holes

  , are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom, or to reef it; they consist of round ho...

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• futtock-holes

  Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...

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• hawse-holes

  Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...

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• head-holes

  The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...

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• holes, eyelet

  or œillet. The holes in sails for points and rope-bands which are fenced round by stitching the ed...

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• lewis-holes

  Two holes in the surface of a mortar, superseding ears. ...

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• loop-holes

  Small openings made in the walls of a castle, or a fortification, for musketry to fire through. Also...

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• mast-holes

  The apertures in the deck-partners for stepping the masts. ...

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• point-holes

  The eyelet-holes for the points. ...

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• port-holes

  See ports ...

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• sludge-holes

  Adaptations at the ends of the water-passages between the flues of a steamer's boilers, by which the...

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• marline-spike hitch

  A peculiar hitch in marling, made by laying the marline-spike upon the seizing stuff, and then bring...

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