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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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• Yarn

  ·noun One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed. II. Yarn ·noun A story told b...

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• Yarn

  Found only in 1 Kings 10:28, 2 Chr. 1:16. The Heb. word mikveh, i.e., "a stringing together," so ren...

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• yarn

  A story. A word chiefly used by seamen. To spin a long yarn, is to tell a long or tedious story. ...

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• yarn

  One of the threads of which ropes are composed. A number of these are twisted together to form a str...

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• Yarn

  The notice of yarn is contained in an extremely obscure passage in (1 Kings 10:28; 2 Chronicles 1:16...

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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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• rope

  Is composed of hemp, hide, wire, or other stuff, spun into yarns and strands, which twisted together...

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• Bay yarn

  ·- Woolen yarn. ...

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• Saxony yarn

  ·add. ·- A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn. ...

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• Linen-yarn

  (See Yarn.) ...

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• rogue's yarn

  A yarn twisted the contrary way to the rest of a rope, for detecting theft or embezzlement. Being ta...

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• spun-yarn

  A small line, formed of two, three, or more old rope-yarns not laid, but twisted together by hand or...

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• yarn-spinning

  A figurative expression for telling a story. ...

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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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• 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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• 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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• spin a yarn, to

  To tell a long story; much prized in a dreary watch, if not tedious. ...

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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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