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Bend
·noun Hard, indurated clay; bind. II. Bend ·noun A <<Band>>. III. Bend ·noun Turn; purpose; inclin...

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bend
1) a border of a woman's cap. N.; perhaps from BAND. 2) see ben ...

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bend
The chock of the bowsprit. ...

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Sheet
·vt the book itself. II. Sheet ·vt To expand, as a sheet. III. Sheet ·vt A <<Sail>>. IV. Sheet ·v...

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sheet
A rope or chain fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail, to extend and retain the clue d...

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cable-sheet, sheet-cable
The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anch...

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yarra-bend
n. equivalent to the English word Bedlam. The first lunatic asylum of the colony ofVictoria stood n...

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bend-kitt
a kind of great can with a cover. N. ...

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bend, to
To fasten one rope to another, or to an anchor. The term is also applied to any sudden or remarkable...

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bend-mould
A mould made to form the futtocks in the square body, assisted by the rising-square and floor-hollow...

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bend-roll
A rest formerly used for a heavy musket. ...

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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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carrick-bend
A kind of knot, formed on a bight by putting the end of a rope over its standing part, and then pass...

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fisherman's bend
A knot, for simplicity called the king of all knots. Its main use is for bending studding-halliards ...

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granny's bend
The slippery hitch made by a lubber. ...

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slip-bend
When a man makes a false step, and slips down a hatchway, or overboard. ...

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Sheet anchor
·vt Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge. II. Sheet...

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Sheet cable
·- The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. ...

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Sheet chain
·- A chain sheet cable. ...

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deck-sheet
That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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flowing-sheet
In sailing free or large, is the position of the sheets or lower clues of the principal sails when t...

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sheet-anchor
One of four bower anchors supplied, two at the bows, and one at either chest-tree abaft the fore-rig...

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sheet-cable
A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a shi...

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sheet-copper
Copper rolled out into sheets, for the sheathing of ships' bottoms, &c. ...

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sheet-fish
The Silurus glanis, a large fish found in many European rivers and lakes. ...

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sheet home!
The order, after the sails are loosed, to extend the sheets to the outer extremities of the yards, t...

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Big Bend State
·add. ·- Tennessee; — a nickname. ...

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above one's bend
Out of one's power; beyond reach. A common expression in the Western States. I shall not attempt to...

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fore-sheet horse
An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...

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fore-sheet traveller
An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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give her sheet
The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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tack or sheet
A man's saying that he will not start tack or sheet implies resolution. ...

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topsail-sheet bitts
Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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bend on the tack
In hoisting signals, that piece of rope called the distant line which keeps the flags so far asunder...

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haul aft a sheet
To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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sheet in the wind
Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man. ...

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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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gather aft a sheet, to
to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...

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standing part of a sheet
That part which is secured to a ring at the ship's bow, quarter, side, &c. ...

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side out for a bend, to
The old well-known term to draw the bight of a hempen cable towards the opposite side, in order to m...

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try back for a bend, to
To pay back some of the bight of a cable, in order to have sufficient to form the bend. ...

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