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To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
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An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
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DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
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A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
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A maker of ropes.
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A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
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One who ropes goods; a packer.
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A place where ropes are made.
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The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
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A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
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A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
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One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
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Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
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Articles made of the blades or fiber of the Lygeum Spartum and Stipa (/ Macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses.
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The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
v. t.
To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
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A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.
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A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.
v. t.
To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
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Made of ropes tacked together.
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