slippery-hitch

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• Slippery

  ·adj Uncertain in effect. II. Slippery ·adj Liable to slip; not standing firm. III. Slippery ·adj ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• slippery

  Uncertain; changeable.--Johnson. That man's a slippery fellow; i. e. no dependence can be placed in ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Hitch

  ·noun A small dislocation of a bed or vein. II. Hitch ·noun The act of catching, as on a hook, ·etc...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hitch

  A difficulty; an impediment. All the hitches in the case of McNulty being got over, the gentlemen o...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• hitch

  to move, or walk. Norf. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• hitch

  A species of knot by which one rope is connected with another, or to some object. They are various; ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• slippery chap

  One on whom there can be no dependance, a shuffling fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blackwall-hitch

  A sort of tackle-hook guy, made by putting the bight of a rope over the back of the hook, and there ...

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• clove-hitch

  A knot or noose by which one rope is fastened to another. (See hitch.) Two half hitches round a spar...

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• cow-hitch

  A slippery or lubberly hitch. ...

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• half-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight. (See three half-h...

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• lee-hitch

  The helmsman getting to leeward of the course. ...

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• rolling-hitch

  Pass the end of a rope round a spar or rope; take it round a second time, riding the standing part; ...

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• timber-hitch

  , is made by taking the end of a rope round a spar, and after leading it under and over the standing...

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• marline-spike hitch

  A peculiar hitch in marling, made by laying the marline-spike upon the seizing stuff, and then bring...

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