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Braid :: Braid (n.) A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands..

Hawser :: Hawser (n.) A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

Plain-laid :: Plain-laid (a.) Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage..

Strand :: Strand (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed..

Beached :: Beached (p. p. & a.) Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached..

Twine :: Twine (n.) A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string..

Shroud-laid :: Shroud-laid (a.) Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage..

Unbraid :: Unbraid (v. t.) To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle..

Flat :: Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand..

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning..

Hyalonema :: Hyalonema (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope..

Beach :: Beach (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship..

Astrand :: Astrand (adv. & a.) Stranded.

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..

Grist :: Grist (n.) In rope making, a given size of rope, common grist being a rope three inches in circumference, with twenty yarns in each of the three strands..

Thrum :: Thrum (n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.

Stranded :: Strand (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope..

Strand :: Strand (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship..

Rope-yarn :: Rope-yarn (n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

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