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Rope
·vt To lasso (a steer, horse). II. Rope ·noun The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds. III. R...

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rope
v. tr. to catch a horse or bullock with a noosedrope. It comes from the Western United States, wher...

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Drag rope
·add. ·- A guide rope. ...

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Glass-rope
·noun A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long ...

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Guess rope
·- A guess warp. ...

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Guest rope
·- The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. ...

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Guide rope
·add. ·- A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its len...

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Rope-yarn
·noun the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made. ...

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Top-rope
·noun A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes. ...

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Trail rope
·add. ·- ·same·as Guide rope, above. ...

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to rope in
To take or sweep in collectively; an expression much used in colloquial language at the West. It ori...

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back-rope
The rope-pendant, or small chain for staying the dolphin-striker. Also a piece long enough to reach ...

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bell-rope
A short rope spliced round a thimble in the eye of the bell-crank, with a double wall-knot crowned a...

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boat-rope
A separate rope veered to the boat to be towed at the ship's stern. ...

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bolt-rope
A rope sewed all round the edge of the sail, to prevent the canvas from tearing. The bottom part of ...

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breast-rope
The lashing or laniard of the yard-parrels. (See also horse.) Also, the bight of a mat-worked band f...

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bucket-rope
That which is tied to a bucket for drawing water up from alongside. ...

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buoy-rope
The rope which attaches the buoy to the anchor, which should always be of sufficient strength to lif...

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cant-rope
See four-cant. ...

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cat-rope
A line for hauling the cat-hook about: also cat-back-rope, which hauls the block to the ring of the ...

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chest-rope
The same with the guest or gift rope, and is added to the boat-rope when the boat is towed astern of...

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clue-rope
In large sails, the eye or loop at the clues is made of a rope larger than the bolt-rope into which ...

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davit-rope
The lashing which secures the davit to the shrouds when out of use. ...

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foot-rope
The rope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. (See bolt-rope.) ...

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foul rope
A rope entangled or unfit for immediate use. ...

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gift-rope
[synonymous with guest-rope]. A rope for boats at the guest-warp boom. ...

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grapnel-rope
That which is bent to the grapnel by which a boat rides, now substituted by chain. ...

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guess-rope
See guess-warp ...

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head-rope
That part of the bolt-rope which terminates any sail on the upper edge, and to which it is according...

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heel-rope
That which hauls out the bowsprit in cutters, and the jib and studding-sail booms, or anything else ...

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jaw-rope
A line attached to the horns of the jaws to prevent the gaff from coming off the mast. It is usually...

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kedge-rope
The rope which belongs to the kedge-anchor, and restrains the vessel from driving over her bower-anc...

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keel-rope
A coarse rope formerly used for cleaning the limber-holes. ...

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leech-rope
A name given to that vertical part of the bolt-rope to which the border or edge of a sail is sewed. ...

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manilla rope
A valuable cordage made in the Philippines, which, not being subject to rot, does not require to be ...

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mast-rope
[Anglo-Saxon mæst-ràp]. That which is used for sending masts up or down. ...

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parrel-rope
Is formed of a single rope well served, and fitted with an eye at each end; this being passed round ...

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rope-bands
Small plaited lines rove through the eyelet holes with a running eye, by which the head of a sail, a...

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rope-house
A long building in a dockyard, where ropes are made. ...

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rope-ladder
Such as hangs over the stern, to enable men to go into boats, &c. ...

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rope-maker
A first-class petty officer in the navy. ...

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rope-yarn
The smallest and simplest part of any rope, being one of the large threads of hemp or other stuff, s...

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shroud-rope
A finer quality of hawser-laid rope than is commonly used for other purposes. It is also termed purc...

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slip-rope
A rope passed through anything in such a manner that it will render or may be slipped instantaneousl...

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slue-rope
A rope peculiarly applied for turning a spar or other object in a required direction. ...

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swab-rope
A line bent to the eye of a swab for dipping it overboard in washing it. ...

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top-rope
The mast-rope employed to sway up a top-mast or topgallant-mast, in order to fix it in its place, or...

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rope-winch
See whirl ...

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white-rope
Rope which has not been tarred. Manilla, coir, and some other ropes, do not require tarring. ...

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wire-rope
Rigging made of iron wire galvanized, and laid up like common cordage. ...

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yard-rope
Is only used for temporary purposes; the most usual application of the term is that by which a yard ...

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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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cable-laid rope
Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope. Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand rope...

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hawser-laid rope
Is rope made in the usual way, being three or four strands of yarns laid up right-handed, or with th...

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laying a rope
Arranging the yarns for the strands, and then the strands for making a rope, or cable. ...

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right-hand rope
That which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is to the right hand; the term is opposed to wa...

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rope of sand
A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...

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water-laid rope
The same as cablet; it coils against the sun, or to the left hand. ...

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every rope an-end
The order to coil down the running rigging, or braces and bowlines, after tacking, or other evolutio...

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lay of a rope
The direction in which its strands are twisted; hawser is right-handed; cablet left-handed. ...

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loose a rope, to
To cast it off, or let it go. ...

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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides. ...

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standing part of a rope
The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...

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