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Reef
·noun A large vein of auriferous quartz; — so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding...

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reef
I. n. term in gold-mining; a vein ofauriferous quartz. Called by the Californian miners a vein, or...

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reef
A certain portion of a sail comprehended between the head of a sail and any of the reef-bands. The i...

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Knot
·noun A protuberant joint in a plant. II. Knot ·noun ·see <<Node>>. III. Knot ·noun An ornamental ...

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knot
A crew, gang, or fraternity. He has tied a knot with his tongue, that he cannot untie with his teeth...

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knot
A large knob formed on the extremity of a rope, generally by untwisting its ends, and interweaving t...

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Reef-band
·noun A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for ...

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bag-reef
A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy. ♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...

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balance-reef
A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly ...

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reef-band
A narrow band of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points. It is pierc...

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reef-cringles
See cringle. ...

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reef-earings
See earings. ...

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reef-line
Casual aids in bad weather to help the men at the earings. When the vessel was going free, and the s...

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reef-pendant
A rope going through a cringle in the after-leech of a boom main-sail, and through a check sheave-ho...

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reef-points
Small flat pieces of plaited cordage or soft rope, tapering from the middle towards each end, whose ...

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reef-tackles
, are indeed pendants and tackles. The pendant is rove through the sister-block, then a sheave in th...

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shore reef
The same as fringing reef. ...

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spanish reef
The yards lowered on the cap. Also, a knot tied in the head of the jib. ...

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Clytie knot
·add. ·- In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of t...

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Cuckold's knot
·- A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed an...

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wharl-knot
a hard knot. Lane. ...

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bowline-knot
That by which the bowline-bridles were fastened to the cringles: the bowline-knot is made by an invo...

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cuckold's-knot
or neck. A knot by which a rope is secured to a spar the two parts of the rope crossing each oth...

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diamond-knot
An ornamental knot worked with the strands of a rope, sometimes used for bucket-strops, on the foot-...

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granny's knot
This is a term of derision when a reef-knot is crossed the wrong way, so as to be insecure. It is th...

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overhand knot
Is made by passing the end of a rope over its standing part, and through the bight. ...

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shroud-knot
See knot. ...

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slip-knot
, or slippery-hitch. One which will not bear any strain, but will either become untied, or will tr...

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snarl-knot
A northern expression for a knot that cannot be drawn loose. ...

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square-knot
The same as reef-knot. ...

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stopper-knot
Single and double wall, without crowning, and the ends stopped together. ...

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walker's knot
See matthew walker. ...

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wale-knot
See wall-knot ...

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wall-knot
, or wale-knot. A particular sort of large knot raised upon the end of a rope, by untwisting the s...

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reef-tackle span
Two cringles in the bolt-rope, about a couple of feet apart, when a block is used. ...

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top-knot pigeon
n. an Australian bird, Lopholaimus antarcticus, Shaw. 1891. Francis Adams, `John Webb's End,' p. 3...

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buoy-rope knot
Used where the end is lashed to the shank. A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope,...

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double wall-knot
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...

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french shroud-knot
The shroud-knot with three strands single walled round the bights of the other three and the standin...

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running bowline-knot
Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...

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hands reef top-sails!
The order to reef by all hands, instead of the watch, or watch and idlers. ...

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Fox and Knot Court
West out of Cow Lane and north through Fox and Knot Inn to Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (H...

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Fox and Knot Inn
See Fox and Knot Court. ...

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sprit-sail sheet knot
May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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shake out, a reef, to
See let out, a reef, to ...

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let out, a reef, to
, or shake out, a reef, to To increase the dimensions of a sail, by untying the points confining a...

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