Rating | Solver | Clue |
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SHEETS | Ship’s ropes | |
MANROPE | One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship. | |
NO-MAN'S LAND | A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for. | |
CORDAGE | Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes. | |
KEELHAUL | To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies. | |
RIGGING | 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. | |
BOWLINE | 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 ... |