A stout chain with a hook at each end for attaching a tow-rope to; also, a large towing-hook in the bight of the chain.
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Tow>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A mooring hawser. II. Bridle ·noun A restraint; a curb; a check. III. Bridle ·vt To put a br...
Three Hebrew words are thus rendered in the Authorized Version. 1) Heb. mahsom' signifies a muzzle ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
See mooring-bridle and bowline-bridle. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See towing-bridle. ...
Drawing anything after a ship or boat when she is sailing or rowing. As a manœuvre to deceive an ene...
The hauling-way along a canal or artificial harbour. ...
A substantial timber fixed through the deck of a steam-tug for making the tow-rope fast to. Also, a ...
·- A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, ·et...
a road for a horse only. N. BRIDLE-WAY and BRIDLE-ROAD. Kent. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
The span attached to the cringles on the leech of a square sail to which the bowline is toggled or c...
A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...
The fasts attached to moorings, one taken into each hawse-hole, or bridle-port. ...