Small pieces of wood with holes in them, but no sheaves; they are seized on the standing-rigging as fair leaders for the running-rigging. (See bull's-eye.)
Pieces of wood of various forms, though mostly round; they are for different purposes, as wheels on ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vi To take shelter or harbor. II. Shroud ·noun The branching top of a tree; foliage. III. Shroud ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adj Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; — said of rope. ·see ...
See knot. ...
The combination in the larger cordage, also known as hawser-laid. ...
A finer quality of hawser-laid rope than is commonly used for other purposes. It is also termed purc...
A stout rope-stopper made fast above and below a part of the shroud which has been damaged by an ene...
Is composed of a single rope passing through a number of bull's-eye trucks, sufficient to embrace th...
Used figuratively for fragments. ...
The shroud-knot with three strands single walled round the bights of the other three and the standin...
, or jaw parrels. This is formed by passing the two parts of the parrel-rope through the two holes...