Seizing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

II. Seizing ·noun The cord or lashing used for such fastening.

III. Seizing ·noun The operation of fastening together or lashing.

IV. Seizing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Seize.

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  • seizing

    Fastening any two ropes, or different parts of one rope together, with turns of small stuff. ...

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  • flat seizing

    This is passed on a rope, the same as a round seizing, but it has no riding turns. ...

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  • round seizing

    This is made by a series of turns, with the end passed through the riders, and made fast snugly. In ...

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  • throat-seizing

    In blocks, confines the hook and thimble in the strop home to the scores. Also, in turning in riggin...

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  • hard up in a clinch, and no knife to cut the seizing

    Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...

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