·noun A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.
A rope leading forward which is fastened to a space connected by bridles to cringles on the leech or...
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The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passin...
The span attached to the cringles on the leech of a square sail to which the bowline is toggled or c...
An eye worked into the leech-rope of a sail; usually in that of a fore-sail two, a main-sail three, ...
A hearty and simultaneous bowse. (See one! two!! three!!!) In hauling the bowline it is customary fo...
That by which the bowline-bridles were fastened to the cringles: the bowline-knot is made by an invo...
The bowline of the fore-sail. ...
A ship sailing close-hauled is "on a taut bowline." ...
The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...
Close to the wind, when the sail will not stand without hauling the bowlines. ...
Is made by taking the end round the standing part, and making a bowline upon its own part. ...