seizing

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Fastening any two ropes, or different parts of one rope together, with turns of small stuff.

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  • Seizing

    ·noun The act of taking or grasping suddenly. II. Seizing ·noun The cord or lashing used for such f...

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  • flat seizing

    This is passed on a rope, the same as a round seizing, but it has no riding turns. ...

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  • round seizing

    This is made by a series of turns, with the end passed through the riders, and made fast snugly. In ...

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  • throat-seizing

    In blocks, confines the hook and thimble in the strop home to the scores. Also, in turning in riggin...

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  • hard up in a clinch, and no knife to cut the seizing

    Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...

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