running bowline-knot

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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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• Bowline

  ·noun A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by sub...

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• bowline

  A rope leading forward which is fastened to a space connected by bridles to cringles on the leech or...

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• Running

  ·adj Moving or advancing by running. II. Running ·adj Discharging pus; as, a running sore. III. Ru...

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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...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• knot

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

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• bowline-bend

  The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passin...

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• bowline-bridle

  The span attached to the cringles on the leech of a square sail to which the bowline is toggled or c...

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• bowline-cringle

  An eye worked into the leech-rope of a sail; usually in that of a fore-sail two, a main-sail three, ...

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• bowline haul

  A hearty and simultaneous bowse. (See one! two!! three!!!) In hauling the bowline it is customary fo...

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• fore-bowline

  The bowline of the fore-sail. ...

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• taut bowline

  A ship sailing close-hauled is "on a taut bowline." ...

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• Right-running

  ·adj Straight; direct. ...

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• Running load

  ·add. ·- The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing. II. Running load ·...

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• pig running

  A piece of game frequently practised at fairs, wakes, &c. A large pig, whose tail is cut short, and ...

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• running horse

  or NAG A clap, or gleet. ...

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• running smobble

  Snatching goods off a counter, and throwing them to an accomplice, who brushes off with them. ...

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• running stationers

  Hawker of newspapers, trials, and dying speeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• tup running

  A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greas...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• running-postman

  n. a Tasmanian plant,i.q. Coral-Pea. See Kennedya. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bowsprit, running

  In cutter-rigged vessels. (See cutter.) ...

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• over-running

  (See under-run.) Applied to ice, when the young ice overlaps, and is driven over. ...

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• running agreement

  In the case of foreign-going ships making voyages averaging less than six months in duration, runnin...

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• running-blocks

  Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles. ...

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• running bowsprit

  One which is used in revenue cutters and smacks; it can be reefed by sliding in, and has fid holes f...

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• running foul

  A vessel, by accident or bad steerage, falling in contact with another under sail. (See athwart // h...

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• running goods

  Landing a cargo of contraband articles. ...

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• Issue, Running

  (Leviticus 15:2,3; 22:4; Numbers 5:2; 2 Samuel 3:29) In (Leviticus 15:3) a distinction is introduced...

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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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• 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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• reef-knot

  Is one in which the ends fall always in a line with the outer parts; in fact, two loops, easy to unt...

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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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• main-top bowline

  The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...

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• on a bowline

  Close to the wind, when the sail will not stand without hauling the bowlines. ...

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• running-down clause

  A special admission into policies of marine insurance, to include the risk of loss or damage in cons...

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• running the gantlet

  See gant-lope (pronounced gantlet). ...

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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-down the port

  A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...

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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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• running out, and running in, the lower deck guns

  The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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• running part of a tackle

  Synonymous with the fall, or that part on which the man power is applied to produce the intended eff...

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