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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 ...

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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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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...

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

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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...

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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 bowline-knot
Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...

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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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