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Stopper
·vt To close or secure with a stopper. II. Stopper ·noun A short piece of rope having a knot at one...

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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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gap stopper
A whoremaster. ...

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bitt-stopper
One rove through the knee of the bitts, which nips the cable on the bight: it consists of four or fi...

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cathead-stopper
See cat-stopper ...

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cat-stopper
, or cathead-stopper A piece of rope or chain rove through the ring of an anchor, to secure it for...

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chain-stopper
There are various kinds of stoppers for chain-cables, mostly acting by clamping or compression. ...

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compressor-stopper
A contrivance for holding the chain-cable by compression. ...

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deck-stopper
(See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...

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dog-stopper
Put on before all to enable the men to bit the cable, sometimes to fleet the messenger. ...

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rigging-stopper
See stopper of the cable. ...

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ring-stopper
A long piece of rope secured to an after ring-bolt, and the loop embracing the cable through the nex...

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shroud-stopper
A stout rope-stopper made fast above and below a part of the shroud which has been damaged by an ene...

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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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slip-knot
, or slippery-hitch. One which will not bear any strain, but will either become untied, or will tr...

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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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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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stopper of the anchor
A strong rope attached to the cat-head, which, passing through the anchor-ring, is afterwards fasten...

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stopper of the cable
Commonly called a deck-stopper. A piece of rope having a large knot at one end, and hooked or lashed...

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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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