In shape resembling a thumb. They arrest the topsail-reef-earings from slipping, and are also lashed to the rigging with a hollow, cut out to act as a hook, to suspend the bight of a rope, as the truss-pendants on the lower masts.
·vt To strengthen with a cleat. II. Cleat ·noun A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·vt To handle awkwardly. II. Thumb ·vt To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as,...
By rule of thumb: to do any thing by dint of practice. To kiss one's thumb instead of the book; a vu...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Synonymous with dumb-chalder and thumb-cleat. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Synonymous with rolling-chock. ...
A piece of wood bolted under the beams, to support them when pillars are not used. ...
·noun A very diminutive person. II. Hop-thumb ·noun ·see Hop-o'-my-thumb. ...
·- An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle. ...
·noun A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset w...
Done to a cow's thumb; done exactly. ...
A dwarf, a little hop-o'my-thumb. ...
A fresh-water fish, the Cottus cataphractus. ...
This is placed on the upper side of the gaff, to pass the outer earing round from the cringle. ...
That rule suggested by a practical rather than a scientific knowledge. In common matters it means to...
To nail large cleats under the trucks of the lower-deckers in bad weather, to insure their not fetch...
·noun ·Alt. of Hop-thumb. ...
A diminutive person, man or woman. She was such a-hop-o-my thumb, that a pigeon, sitting on her shou...