slip-bend

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• Slip

  ·noun A fish, the sole. II. Slip ·noun A child's pinafore. III. Slip ·noun A particular quantity o...

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• slip

  1) The opening between wharves or in a dock.--Webster. This word is peculiar to New York, where we ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• slip

  An inclined plane by the water side, on which a ship may be built. There are also slips up which v...

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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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• Side slip

  ·add. ·- ·see <<Skid>>, below. ...

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• Side-slip

  ·add. ·vi ·see <<Skid>>, below. ...

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• Slip-on

  ·noun A kind of overcoat worn upon the shoulders in the manner of a cloak. ...

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• slip-panel

  Same as slip-rail (q.v.).See also panel. 1893. `The Australasian,' Aug.12, p. 302, col. 1: «Take h...

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

• slip-rail

  n. part of a fence so fitted that itcan be removed so as to serve as a gate. Used also for thegatew...

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• graving slip

  A portion of the dockyard where ships were landed for a tide. ...

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• land-slip

  The fall of a quantity of land from a cliff or declivity; the land sliding away so as often to carry...

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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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• slip-rope

  A rope passed through anything in such a manner that it will render or may be slipped instantaneousl...

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• slip-shackle

  A shackle with a lever-bolt, for letting go suddenly; yet, when ringed, is sufficient to secure the ...

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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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• sheet-bend

  A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...

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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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• 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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• 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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