marline-spike hitch

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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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• 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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• Spike

  ·vt To fix on a spike. II. Spike ·noun An ear of corn or grain. III. Spike ·vt To set or furnish w...

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• Hitch

  ·noun A small dislocation of a bed or vein. II. Hitch ·noun The act of catching, as on a hook, ·etc...

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• hitch

  A difficulty; an impediment. All the hitches in the case of McNulty being got over, the gentlemen o...

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• hitch

  to move, or walk. Norf. ...

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• hitch

  A species of knot by which one rope is connected with another, or to some object. They are various; ...

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• marline-holes

  Holes made for marling, or lacing the foot-rope and clues in courses and top-sails. ...

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• spike team

  A waggon drawn by three horses, or by two oxen and a horse, the latter leading the oxen or span of h...

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• spike-nails

  See deck-nails. ...

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• spike-plank

  (Speak-plank?) In Polar voyages, a platform projecting across the vessel before the mizen-mast, to e...

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• spike-tackle and cant-falls

  The ropes and blocks used in whalers to sling their prey to the side of the ship. ...

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• spike-tub

  A vessel in which the fat of bears, seals, and minor quarry is set aside till a "making off" gives a...

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• blackwall-hitch

  A sort of tackle-hook guy, made by putting the bight of a rope over the back of the hook, and there ...

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• clove-hitch

  A knot or noose by which one rope is fastened to another. (See hitch.) Two half hitches round a spar...

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• cow-hitch

  A slippery or lubberly hitch. ...

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• half-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. (See three half-h...

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• lee-hitch

  The helmsman getting to leeward of the course. ...

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• rolling-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round a spar or rope; take it round a second time, riding the standing part; ...

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• slippery-hitch

  See slip-knot ...

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• timber-hitch

  , is made by taking the end of a rope round a spar, and after leading it under and over the standing...

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