rolling-hitch

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• Rolling

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Roll>>. II. Rolling ·adj Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or ro...

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• rolling

  Undulating; varied by small hills and valleys, as land; so used in the Western States.--Worcester. ...

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• rolling

  That oscillatory motion by which the waves rock a ship from side to side. The larger part of this di...

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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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• Rolling-pin

  ·noun A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and...

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• log-rolling

  In the lumber regions of Maine it is customary for men of different logging camps to appoint days fo...

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• rolling prairie

  The following excellent definition of this term is from the pen of Judge Hall: "The vast plains or ...

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• rolling-chock

  , or jaw-piece. Similar to that of a gaff, fastened to the middle of an upper yard, to steady it. ...

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• rolling-cleat

  Synonymous with rolling-chock. ...

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• rolling-swell

  That heaving of the sea where the waves are very distant, forming deep troughs between. ...

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• rolling-tackles

  Used to prevent the yards from swaying to and fro under heavy rolling motion. ...

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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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• 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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• 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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• rolling down to st. helena

  Running with a flowing sheet by the trade-wind. ...

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